Cloning of genes coding for L-sorbose and L-sorbosone dehydrogenases from Gluconobacter oxydans and microbial production of 2-keto-L-gulonate, a precursor of L-ascorbic acid, in a recombinant G. oxydans strain

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 454-460

  Saito, Yoshimasa ^a,b   Ishii, Yoshinori ^a   Hayashi, Hiromi ^a   Imao, Yumiko ^a   Akashi, Takeshi ^a   Yoshikawa, Koji ^a   Noguchi, Yuji ^a   Soeda, Shinsuke ^a   Yoshida, Masaru ^a   Niwa, Mineo ^a   Hosoda, Junji ^a   Shimomura, Kyoichi ^a  

^a ASTELLAS PHARMA INC   (Japan)

^b Nihon Trim Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGULONIC ACID; ASCORBIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; MONOSACCHARIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXOACID; SORBOSE; SORBOSONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FERMENTATION; GLUCONOBACTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

EID: 0030894636     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.2.454-460.1997     Document Type: Article

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