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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2010
Yukiko Umezawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Keiichi Yokoyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshimi Kikuchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Masayo Date, Kawasaki, JP;
Norimasa Onishi, Tokyo, JP;
Yukiko Umezawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Keiichi Yokoyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshimi Kikuchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Masayo Date, Kawasaki, JP;
Norimasa Onishi, Tokyo, JP;
Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a neutral metalloprotease from actinomycetes which selectively cleaves a pro-structure part of a microbial protransglutaminase and a gene encoding said neutral metalloprotease. An active microbial transglutaminase having the pro-structure part cleaved can be obtained by culturing a microorganism into which a gene encoding the neutral metalloprotease from actinomycetes according to the present invention has been introduced, where by producing the neutral metalloprotease from actinomycetes, and reacting it on a microbial protransglutaminase.