- Tokyo, JP Sheetal Modi - San Francisco CA, US Michael Siddiqui - San Mateo CA, US Christine Roche - Berkeley CA, US
Assignee:
AJINOMOTO CO., INC. - Tokyo
International Classification:
C12P 7/22 C12N 9/10 C12P 7/42 C12P 7/24
Abstract:
A method for producing an objective substance such as vanillin and vanillic acid is provided. An objective substance is produced from a carbon source or a precursor of the objective substance by using a microorganism having an objective substance-producing ability, which microorganism has been modified to have a Bacteroidetes O-methyltransferase (OMT) gene, especially an OMT gene encoding OMT having a specific mutation.