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AssigneeEnsuiko Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.
InventorsTetsuya Ito, Yuki Ario, Eriko Kishino, Koki Fujita
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The object of the present invention is to provide a microorganism having an excellent ability to specifically oxidize the hydroxymethyl group of glucose, and a method of producing glucuronic acid and/or glucuronolactone by using such a microorganism to directly oxidize glucose, and the invention is directed at a microorganism which produces glucuronic acid directly from glucose and a mutant strain which is capable of specifically oxidizing the hydroxymethyl group of glucose and in which a DNA nucleotide sequence corresponding to 16S rRNA has the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 in the sequence listing, and the invention is also directed at a method of producing glucuronic acid and/or glucuronolactone by specifically oxidizing the hydroxymethyl group of glucose using the mutant strain, and this invention enables D-glucuronic acid and/or D-glucuronolactone to be produced and furnished easily and safely at a high yield and a low cost.
A microorganism which produces glucuronic acid directly from glucose, wherein the microorganism has an ability to specifically oxidize a hydroxymethyl group of glucose, and a DNA nucleotide sequence corresponding to 16s rRNA thereof has the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:
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