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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2011
Applicants:
Yoshinori Tajima, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoko Yamamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Yoshinori Tajima, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoko Yamamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An organic acid is produced by allowing a bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, which has an ability to produce an organic acid and has been modified so that the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity is enhanced, and the glucose phosphotransferase activity is decreased, which is selected fromand, or a product obtained by processing the bacterium, to act on an organic raw material in a reaction mixture containing carbonate ions, bicarbonate ions, or carbon dioxide gas to produce the organic acid.