59 results about "Glycerol kinase" patented technology

To provide lipase activity determination reagents which function by the enzymatic method. The reagents are easy to use in an ordinary clinical examination, have excellent handleability, and are excellent in accuracy and reproducibility. Lipase activity is determined with any of reagents which comprise a low-concentration buffer and a diglyceride dissolved therein. The diglyceride is used as a substrate for lipase, whereby the liquid reagents can have long-term storage stability. One of the reagents converts a monoglyceride yielded by a lipase reaction into glycerol with the aid of monoglyceride lipase, and further contains glycerol kinase, pyruvate kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, reduced NAD, ATP, and phosphoenol pyruvate. Another reagent converts a monoglyceride yielded by a lipase reaction into glycerol with the aid of monoglyceride lipase, and further contains glycerol kinase, glucose, ADP-dependent hexokinase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, oxidized NAD or oxidized NADP, and ATP. A further reagent converts a monoglyceride yielded by a lipase reaction into glycerol with the aid of monoglyceride lipase, and further contains glycerol kinase, glycero-3-phosphate oxidase, peroxidase, and a dye which colors in the presence of hydrogen peroxide.

The present invention provides a method for producing an L-amino acid using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, particularly a bacterium belonging to genus Escherichia or Pantoea, which has been modified to have glycerol kinase in which feedback inhibition by fructose-1,6-bisphosphate is desensitized, thereby having enhanced ability to utilize glycerol.

Lipogenic yeasts bioengineered to overexpress genes for lipid production, and methods of use thereof. The yeasts are modified to express, constitutively express, or overexpress an acetyl-CoA carboxylase, an alpha-amylase, an ATP citrate lyase, a diacylglycerol acyltransferase, a fatty acid synthase, a glycerol kinase, a 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, a glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, a malic enzyme, a fatty acyl-CoA reductase, a delta-9 acyl-CoA desaturase, a glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase, a lysophosphatidate acyltransferase, a glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, a beta-glucosidase, a hexose transporter, a glycerol transporter, a glycoside hydrolase enzyme, an auxiliary activity family 9 enzyme, or combinations thereof. The yeasts in some cases are also modified to reduce or ablate activity of certain proteins. The methods include cultivating the yeast to convert low value soluble organic stillage byproducts into lipids suitable for biodiesel production and other higher value uses.

Recombinant organisms are provided comprising genes encoding a glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and / or a glycerol-3-phosphatase activity useful for the production of glycerol from a variety of carbon substrates. The organisms further contain disruptions in the endogenous genes encoding proteins having glycerol kinase and glycerol dehydrogenase activities.