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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2019
Applicant:
Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Benjamin Mijts, San Carlos, CA (US);
Sheetal Modi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Siddiqui, San Mateo, CA (US);
Christine Roche, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
AJINOMOTO CO., INC., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/24 (2006.01); C12P 7/22 (2006.01); C12P 7/24 (2006.01); C12P 7/42 (2006.01); C12N 9/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/22 (2013.01); C12N 9/1007 (2013.01); C12P 7/24 (2013.01); C12P 7/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for producing an objective substance such as vanillin and vanillic acid is provided. An objective substance is produced from a carbon source or a precursor of the objective substance by using a microorganism having an objective substance-producing ability, which microorganism has been modified to have a Bacteroidetes O-methyltransferase (OMT) gene, especially an OMT gene encoding OMT having a specific mutation.