STEROL SIDE CHAIN-CLEAVING ENZYME PROTEIN AND USE THEREOF

• Main Authors: ARISAWA, AKIRA, SAKAMOTO, TAKESHI, UEDA, MAKOTO, KABUMOTO, HIROKI, ITOH, MASASHI, FUJII, YOSHIKAZU, FUJII, TADASHI, YAMAGISHI, MASAHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 16.11.2011
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

It is an object of the present invention to obtain highly active P450scc enzyme protein which is is an important enzyme protein that catalyzes the first step of the biosynthesis of industrially useful steroid hormone. The present invention provides a sterol side chain cleavage enzyme protein having...