Process for the production of muconic acid
AssigneeCelgene Corporation
InventorPeter C. Maxwell
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Abstract
This invention provides novel strains of microorganisms (e.g., Pseudomonas putida Biotype A) which are capable of converting substrates such as toluene or catechol to muconic acid quantitatively by the ortho (catechol 1,2-oxygenase) pathway. Muconate lactonizing enzyme is not induced in the microorganism, thereby permitting the muconic acid to be produced and accumulated in a quantity greater than one gram of muconic acid per liter of bioconversion medium.
Claims8
A microbial culture having the following characteristics:
- (a) possesses active benzoate dioxygenase;
- (b) possesses active 1,2-dihydrodihydroxybenzoate dehydrogenase;
- (c) lacks active catechol 2,3-oxygenase;
- (d) does not grow on benzoate or halobenzoate;
- wherein the microbial culture is capable of metabolizing catechol quantitatively to an accumulated quantity of muconic acid greater than about one gram or more per liter of a bioconversion medium, and wherein the microbial culture exhibits enzymatic activity characteristic of ATCC No. 31916 strain of Pseudomonas putida Biotype A.
A microbial culture comprising a microorganism having the following characteristics:
- (a) possesses active benzoate dioxygenase and 1,2-dihydrodihydroxybenzoate dehydrogenase and catechol 1,2-oxygenase;
- (b) lacks active catechol 2,3-oxygenase;
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- (c) does not grow on benzoate or monohalobenzoate;
- wherein the microbial culture is capable of metabolizing an aromatic substrate selected from toluene and other benzoic acid-precursors by the ortho pathway via catechol quantitatively to an accumulated quantity of muconic acid greater than about one gram per liter of a bioconversion medium, and wherein the microbial culture exhibits enzymatic activity characteristic of ATCC No. 31916 strain of Pseudomonas putida Biotype A.
A bioconversion medium containing a microbial culture of a strain of fluorescent Pseudomonad microorganism which has been modified to exhibit the following characteristics:
- (a) possesses active benzoate dioxygenase;
- (b) possesses active 1,2-dihydrodihydroxybenzoate dehydrogenase;
- (c) possesses catechol 1,2-oxygenase with activity that is not inhibited in the presence of any low level quantity of muconic acid up to about one gram per liter of bioconversion medium;
- (d) lacks active muconate lactonizing enzyme;
- (e) lacks active catechol 2,3-oxygenase;
- (f) does not grow on benzoate or monohalobenzoate;
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- (g) cells are rod shaped, vigorously motile and polarly flagellated;
- wherein the microbial culture exhibits enzymatic activity characteristic of ATCC No. 31916 strain of ATCC No. 31916 strain of Pseudomonas putida Biotype A.
ATCC No. 31916 strain of Pseudomonas putida Biotype A.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.