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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2004
Applicants:
Silvia Glück, Graz, AT;
Barbara Schnell, Graz, AT;
Monika Pirker, Graz, AT;
Kurt Faber, Graz, AT;
Inventors:
Assignee:
BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for the microbiological isomerization of alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acids using an alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acid racemase, the enzymes used for this method and microorganisms which express a suitable racemase activity, a screening method for microorganisms with alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acid racemase activity, the nucleic acid sequences encoding this enzyme, expression vectors, recombinant microorganisms which express this racemase, and methods for the production or isolation of a protein with alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acid racemase activity.