Method for producing oxo fatty acid and rare fatty acid
AssigneesKyoto University, Nitto Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.
InventorsJun Ogawa, Shigenobu Kishino, Sakayu Shimizu, Yasunori Yonejima
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Abstract
The present invention provides a production method of oxo fatty acid, as well as rare fatty acids such as conjugated fatty acid, hydroxylated fatty acid, partially saturated fatty acid and the like, which uses 4 kinds of enzymes (fatty acid-hydratase, hydroxylated fatty acid-dehydrogenase, oxo fatty acid-isomerase, oxo fatty acid-enone reductase) derived from Lactobacillus plantarum including lactic acid bacteria and the like. Furthermore, the present invention also provides a more efficient production method of oxo fatty acid and the like, which partly uses a chemical oxidation reaction in combination.
Claims2
A method of producing an oxo fatty acid having 18 carbon atoms, a carbonyl group at the 10-position and a trans-type double bond at the 11-position, comprising
- contacting an oxo fatty acid having 18 carbon atoms, a carbonyl group at the 10-position and a cis-type double bond at the 12-position with an isomerase, and
- recovering the resultant oxo fatty acid having 18 carbon atoms, a carbonyl group at the 10-position and a trans-type double bond at the 11-position,
- wherein the isomerase is obtained from Lactobacillus plantarum FERM BP-10549 strain, or a recombinant of the isomerase.
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