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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tatsuo Hoshino, Kamakura, JP;
Akira Asakura, Fujisawa, JP;
Tatsuya Kiyasu, Fujisawa, JP;
Yoshie Nagahashi, Fujisawa, JP;
Assignee:
Roche Vitamins, Inc., Parsipanny, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 1/718 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 1/718 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides processes for making biotin from desthiobiotin by either contacting desthiobiotin with an enzyme reaction mixture containing bioB gene product and nifU gene product and/or nifS gene product and isolating the biotin or cultivating a microorganism transformed with DNA encoding the bioB gene product, nifU gene product and nifS gene product and isolating the biotin.