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US 10,883,124 B2Granted
Method for producing objective substance
AssigneeAjinomoto Co., Inc.
InventorsBenjamin Mijts, Sheetal Modi, Michael Siddiqui, Christine Roche
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Abstract
A method for producing an objective substance such as vanillin and vanillic acid is provided. An objective substance is produced from a carbon source or a precursor of the objective substance by using a microorganism having an objective substance-producing ability, which microorganism has been modified to have a Bacteroidetes O-methyltransferase (OMT) gene, especially an OMT gene encoding OMT having a specific mutation.
Claims33
A method for producing an objective substance, the method comprising the following step:
- producing the objective substance by using a microorganism that has been modified to have an ability to produce the objective substance,
- wherein a modification of the microorganism is to have an O-methyltransferase gene derived from a bacterium belonging to the phylum Bacteroidetes, and
- wherein the objective substance is selected from the group consisting of vanillin, vanillic acid, ferulic acid, guaiacol, 4-vinylguaiacol, 4-ethylguaiacol, and combinations thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.