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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2002
Applicants:
Nobuharu Tsujimoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Tomoko Suzuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hisao Ito, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 1/00 (2006.01); C12P 13/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention describes a method for producing a target substance by utilizing a microorganism comprising culturing the microorganism in a medium, allowing the target substance to accumulate, and collecting the target substance from the medium. Also the microorganism used in the present invention is a mutant strain whereby maltose assimilation is controlled by the interaction between IIAprotein of glucose PTS and MalK.