| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080233617 | Process for the Preparation of a Aspartate and Derived Amino Acids Like Lysine, Threonine, Isoleucine, Methionine, or Homoserine Employing Microorganism with Enhanced Isocitrate Lyase and/or Malate Synthase Expression - The present invention relates to increasing the product of aspartate or aspartate-derived metabolites by boosting the activity of the glyoxylate shunt. This is accomplished by increasing the activity of glyoxylate shunt specific enzymes and decreasing the activity of reactions consuming glyoxylate and its precursors. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080286840 | Microorganisms Comprising Enzymes Express with Low Gamma-Elimination Activity - A microorganism in which enzymes are expressed that have one or several of the following activities cystathionine-γ-synthases and/or phosphohomoserine sulfhydrylase and/or acylhomoserine sulfhydrylases and that have at the same time low γ-elimination activity is disclosed and also relates to recombinant enzymes that have one or several of the following activities cystathionine-γ-synthase and/or phosphohomoserine and/or acylhomoserine sulfhydrylase, have at the same time low γ-eliminase activity and are used for the fermentative production of amino acids, in particular, methionine. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090029424 | Recombinant enzyme with altered feedback sensitivity - The present invention relates to the use of recombinant homoserine transsuccinylase enzymes with altered feedback sensitivity (MetA*) and possibly recombinant S-adenosyl methionine synthetase enzymes with reduced activity (MetK*) for the production of methionine, its precursors or derivatives thereof. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20100047879 | PRODUCING METHIONINE WITHOUT N-ACYL-METHIONINE - The present invention relates to a method for the production of methionine or its derivatives by culturing a microorganism in an appropriate culture medium comprising a source of carbon and a source of sulphur. The microorganism and/or the culture medium and/or the process parameters were modified in a way that the accumulation of the by-product N-acyl-methionine (NAM) is reduced. The isolation of methionine or its derivatives from the fermentation medium is also claimed. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100047880 | PRODUCTION OF N-ACYLATED SULPHUR-CONTAINING AMINO ACIDS WITH MICROORGANISMS HAVING ENHANCED N-ACYLTRANSFERASE ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY - The present invention claims an isolated polypeptide having L-amino-acid-N-acyl transferase enzymatic activity and a modified microorganism in which this enzyme is overexpressed. Substrates of said enzyme include mainly methionine and their derivatives or analogs. Overexpression in sulphur-containing amino acid producing microorganisms permits the production of large amounts of N-acylated sulphur-containing amino acids. The isolation of the N-acylated sulphur-containing amino acids from the fermentation medium is also claimed. | 02-25-2010 |