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US 5,686,284 AGranted
Alcohol acetyltransferase genes and use thereof
AssigneeKirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshio Fujii, Akihiro Iwamatsu, Hiroyuki Yoshimoto, Toshitaka Minetoki, Takayuki Bogaki, Naoshi Nagasawa
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Abstract
This invention disclosed herein provides an alcohol acetyl transferase ("AATase"), an AATase encoding gene and a yeast having an improved ester producing ability due to transformation with the AATase encoding gene. This invention also provides a process for producing an alcoholic beverage having an enriched ester flavor using the transformed yeast.
Claims5
An alcohol acetyltransferase (AATase) comprising a polypeptide selected from the group consisting of:
- (a) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:15,
- (b) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:17,
- (c) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:19 from amino acid residue 1 to amino acid residue 525, and
- (d) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:19 from amino acid residue 19 to amino acid residue 525.
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