Production of d-glutamate from l-glutamate with glutamate racemase and l-glutamate oxidase

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2168-2173

  Oikawa, Tadao ^a   Watanabe, Mayumi ^a   Makiura, Hidemi ^a   Kusakabe, Hitoshi ^b   Yamade, Kazuhiro ^a   Soda, Kenji ^a  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMASA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

D glutamate production; Glutamate racemase; L glutamate oxidase

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042784518     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.2168     Document Type: Article

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