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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2008
Applicant:
Hiroyuki Asako, Toyonaka, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Asako, Toyonaka, JP;
Assignee:
Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/02 (2006.01); C12N 1/20 (2006.01); C12N 15/00 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a protein which can asymmetrically reduce an ortho-substituted phenylglyoxalic acid compound to produce an amide or ester compound of corresponding optically-active ortho-substituted mandelic acid compound with a good optical yield, a DNA encoding the protein, a process for producing the protein from the DNA, and a process for asymmetrically reducing an ortho-substituted phenylglyoxalic acid compound to produce a corresponding optically-active ortho-substituted mandelic acid compound.