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US 7,422,880 B2Granted
Method for producing an l-amino acid using a bacterium of the enterobacteriaceae family having a pathway of glycogen biosynthesis disrupted
AssigneeAjinomoto Co., Inc.
InventorsKonstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Yury Ivanovich Kozlov
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Abstract
There is provided a method for producing an L-amino acid using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, particularly a bacterium belonging to the genus Escherichia or Pantoea, having the glycogen biosynthesis pathway disrupted.
Claims10
An Escherichia coli bacterium which is able to produce L-threonine or L-lysine and which has been modified so that the glycogen biosynthetic pathway is disrupted by attenuation of expression of the glgBX and glgCAP operons.
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