Sucrose mutase with improved product specificity

US8691535B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SÜDZUCKER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT MANNHEIM/OCHSENFURT · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Aehle · Zwingenberg, DE
• Juergen Eck · Bensheim, DE
• Karsten Harms · Worms, DE
• Michael Klingeberg · Bad Kötzting, DE
• Stefan Pelzer · Gütersloh, DE
• Wolfgang Wach · Worms, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 18, 2010
• Grant date: Apr 8, 2014
• Expiry date: Dec 18, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12Y504/99011
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

For the biotechnological production of isomaltulose and compositions containing isomaltulose from saccharose the invention provides improved means, particularly a sucrose mutase with improved product specificity as well as microbial cells containing the improved sucrose mutase.