Process for producing reduced coenzyme Q10
AssigneeKaneka Corporation
InventorsKento Kanaya, Hiroko Okatsu
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Abstract
A process for producing reduced coenzyme Q10 includes removing moisture from an aqueous suspension including a reduced coenzyme Q10-containing microbial cell or a disrupted cell thereof such that a de-moisturized substance is obtained and in contact with an oxidizing atmosphere, and that an oxidized coenzyme Q10 is produced in an amount of 50 mass % or more relative to a total amount of the oxidized and reduced coenzymes Q10, and reducing the oxidized coenzyme Q10 outside a microbial cell such that a reduced coenzyme Q10 is recovered.
Claims22
A process for producing reduced coenzyme Q10, comprising:
- removing moisture from an aqueous suspension comprising a reduced coenzyme Q10-containing microbial cell or a disrupted cell thereof such that a de-moisturized substance is obtained and in contact with an oxidizing atmosphere, and that an oxidized coenzyme Q10 is produced in an amount of 50 mass % or more relative to the total amount of the oxidized and reduced coenzymes Q10;
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- reducing the oxidized coenzyme Q10 outside a microbial cell such that a reduced coenzyme Q10 is recovered.
A process for producing oxidized coenzyme Q10, comprising:
- removing moisture from an aqueous suspension comprising reduced coenzyme Q10-containing a microbial cell or a disrupted cell thereof such that a de-moisturized substance is obtained;
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- preserving the de-moisturized substance for 1 to 30 days in an oxidizing atmosphere such that an oxidized coenzyme Q10 is produced.
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