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AssigneeAjinomoto Co., Inc.
InventorsYuta Nakai, Kazuo Nakanishi, Yoshio Kawahara, Hisao Ito, Osamu Kurahashi
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In a method for producing a target substance utilizing a microorganism comprising culturing the microorganism in a medium to produce and accumulate the target substance in the medium and collecting the target substance, there is used, as the microorganism, a mutant strain or a genetic recombinant strain constructed from a parent strain of the microorganism having a respiratory chain pathway of high energy efficiency and a respiratory chain pathway of low energy efficiency as respiratory chain pathways, and having either one or both of the following characteristics: (A) the respiratory chain pathway of high energy efficiency is enhanced, (B) the respiratory chain pathway of low energy efficiency is deficient.
A method for producing a target substance utilizing a microorganism comprising the steps of culturing the microorganism in a medium to produce and accumulate the target substance in the medium and collecting the target substance, wherein the microorganism is constructed from a parent strain of the microorganism having a respiratory chain pathway of high energy efficiency and a respiratory chain pathway of low energy efficiency as respiratory chain pathways, and the microorganism is a mutant strain or a genetic recombinant strain having either one or both of the following characteristics:
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