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Specific organic acids enhance the D-ribose productivity of a transketolase-defective Bacillus subtilis strain
✍ Scribed by Peter De Wulf; Wim Soetaert; Dieter Schwengers; Erick J. Vandamme
- Book ID
- 101262461
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 234 KB
- Volume
- 70
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0268-2575
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✦ Synopsis
When the transketolase-defective and D-ribose-producing Bacillus subtilis strain ATCC 21951 was cultured in a medium provided with certain organic acids, a signiÐcantly enhanced D-ribose titre was obtained, while the production of acetoin and 2,3-butanediol drastically decreased. Although the biochemical background of this phenomenon is not completely understood, it makes D-ribose synthesis more efficient and cheaper, the latter due to an easier recovery of Dribose from the fermentation medium.