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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2008
Applicants:
Yoko Asakura, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuri Nagai, Kawasaki, JP;
Takuji Ueda, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/10 (2006.01); C12P 21/06 (2006.01); C12P 13/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An L-amino acid is produced by culturing a microorganism which belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae and is able to produce an L-amino acid, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance orotate phosphoribosyltransferase activity is enhanced, in a medium to produce and cause accumulation of an L-amino acid in the medium or cells, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium or the cells.