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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Fujio Yu, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Nitto Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12P / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4352523 ; 435 912 ; 43525233 ; 536 232 ; 536 243 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a DNA coding for a polypeptide having nitrilase activity with an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:1. As compared with conventional processes, the hydrolysis of nitriles by a nitrilase gene cloned by genetic recombination is expected to drastically improve the catalytic ability of microorganisms because they can be engineered to contain multiple copies of the same gene.