Fermentative production of isomaltulose
AssigneeTate & Lyle Public Limited Company
InventorsChristopher Bucke, Peter S. J. Cheetham
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Abstract
Isomaltulose is produced by a process in which at least the isomaltulose-forming enzyme system of an isomaltulose-forming micro-organism is immobilized and then the immobilized enzyme system is contacted with a sucrose solution to convert at least part of the sucrose to isomaltulose.
Claims12
In a process for the production of isomaltulose using an isomaltulose forming strain of bacteria of the genera Protaminobacter, Serratia or Erwinia, the improvement which consists essentially of immobilizing by entrapment within a gel the isomaltulose-forming microorganism as whole cells and then contacting the immobilized microorganism with a sucrose solution containing at least 40% (w/v) of sucrose to convert at least 70% of the sucrose to isomaltulose, and recovering isomaltulose.
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