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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2012
Applicant:
Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Dmitriy Vladimirovich Filippov, Moscow, RU;
Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Moscow, RU;
Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Moscow, RU;
Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Moscow, RU;
Mika Moriya, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuri Nagai, Kanagawa, JP;
Keiko Noguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 13/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for producing L-amino acids, such as L-arginine, L-citrulline, and L-lysine, using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, particularly a bacterium belonging to the genusor, which has been modified to attenuate expression of one or more genes, such as the pepA, pepB, and pepD genes.