Composition for producing tagatose and method of producing tagatose using the same
AssigneeCj Cheiljedang Corporation
InventorsSung Jae YANG, Hyun Kug CHO, Young Mi LEE, Seong Bo KIM
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Abstract
Provided are a composition for producing tagatose, comprising fructose-6-phosphate 4-epimerase, and a method of producing tagatose using the same.
Claims20
A composition for producing tagatose-6-phosphate, comprising tagatose-6-phosphate kinase, a microorganism expressing the tagatose-6-phosphate kinase, or a culture of the microorganism.
A composition for producing tagatose, comprising tagatose-6-phosphate kinase, a microorganism expressing the tagatose-6-phosphate kinase, or a culture of the microorganism;
- and tagatose-6-phosphate phosphatase, a microorganism expressing the tagatose-6-phosphate phosphatase, or a culture of the microorganism.
A method of producing tagatose, comprising producing tagatose-6-phosphate by contacting fructose-6-phosphate with tagatose-6-phosphate kinase, a microorganism expressing the tagatose-6-phosphate kinase, or a culture of the microorganism.
A method of producing tagatose, comprising contacting (a) starch, maltodextrin, sucrose, or a combination thereof;
- with (b) (i) tagatose-6-phosphate phosphatase, (ii) tagatose-6-phosphate kinase, (iii) glucose-6-phosphate-isomerase, (iv) phosphoglucomutase or glucokinase, (v) phosphorylase, and (vi) one or more of α-amylase, pullulanase, isoamylase, glucoamylase, or sucrase;
- and (c) phosphate.
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