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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2008
Tetsuya Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Ario, Tokyo, JP;
Eriko Kishino, Tokyo, JP;
Koki Fujita, Tokyo, JP;
Ensuiko Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The object of the present invention is to provide a microorganism having an excellent ability to specifically oxidize the hydroxymethyl group of glucose, and a method of producing glucuronic acid and/or glucuronolactone by using such a microorganism to directly oxidize glucose, and the invention is directed at a microorganism which produces glucuronic acid directly from glucose and a mutant strain which is capable of specifically oxidizing the hydroxymethyl group of glucose and in which a DNA nucleotide sequence corresponding to 16S rRNA has the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 in the sequence listing, and the invention is also directed at a method of producing glucuronic acid and/or glucuronolactone by specifically oxidizing the hydroxymethyl group of glucose using the mutant strain, and this invention enables D-glucuronic acid and/or D-glucuronolactone to be produced and furnished easily and safely at a high yield and a low cost.