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Production of itaconic acid by fermentation

US5457040A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

RHONE-POULENC CHIMIE · FR

Inventors

Alain Jarry · Le Mans, FR
Yolaine Seraudie · Niort, FR

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 4, 1994
Grant date	Oct 10, 1995
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 4, 2014

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S435/913
WIPO fieldBiotechnology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Itaconic acid and/or salt thereof is produced via aerobic microbial fermentation, for example by means of the species Aspergillus terreus or Aspergillus itaconicus, of a nutrient medium containing a source of assimilable carbon, such carbon source at least in part comprising an effective amount of glycerol.

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