34 results about "Lactic acid dehydrogenase activity" patented technology

Succinic acid is produced by allowing a bacterium modified to enhance fumarate reductase activity or cell preparation thereof to react with an organic raw material in a reaction solution containing one of a carbonate ion, a bicarbonate ion, and carbon dioxide gas to generate succinic acid. More preferably, succinic acid is produced by allowing a bacterium modified to enhance activities of fumarate reductase and pyruvate carboxylase and decrease lactate dehydrogenase activity or cell preparation thereof to react with an organic raw material in a reaction solution containing one of a carbonate ion, a bicarbonate ion, and carbon dioxide gas to generate succinic acid. Succinic acid is obtained by collecting the produced succinic acid.

The present invention provides a method for producing lactic acid in a recombinant yeast cell culture using glucose as carbon source comprising a first, seed fermentation stage to produce biomass wherein the yeast is cultivated in a culture medium at a p H of 5 to 7, followed by a second, a production fermentation stage with biomass from the seed fermentation to produce lactic acid, wherein the yeast is cultivated in a culture medium at low p H using a yeast strain that is engineered to have lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity and optionally has decreased or knocked- out pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) activity.

Succinic acid is produced by allowing a bacterium modified to enhance fumarate reductase activity or cell preparation thereof to react with an organic raw material in a reaction solution containing one of a carbonate ion, a bicarbonate ion, and carbon dioxide gas to generate succinic acid. More preferably, succinic acid is produced by allowing a bacterium modified to enhance activities of fumarate reductase and pyruvate carboxylase and decrease lactate dehydrogenase activity or cell preparation thereof to react with an organic raw material in a reaction solution containing one of a carbonate ion, a bicarbonate ion, and carbon dioxide gas to generate succinic acid. Succinic acid is obtained by collecting the produced succinic acid.

This invention provides a polynucleotide that encodes a protein having lactate dehydrogenase activity and such protein that can be used for producing D-lactic acid. This polynucleotide has the nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 (a), and it hybridizes under stringent conditions with a probe comprising all or part of the nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or a complementary strand thereof and encodes a protein having D-lactate dehydrogenase activity (b).

A thermophilic microorganism lacks lactate dehydrogenase activity and preferably contains an active pyruvate formate lyase pathway. The thermophilic microorganism contains a gene encoding an NAD-linked formate dehydrogenase. The gene encoding an NAD-linked formate dehydrogenase is preferably a codon optimised version of the gene encoding a thermostable NAD-linked formate dehydrogenase. DNA constructs allow stable expression of the gene encoding an NAD-linked formate dehydrogenase in the thermophilic microorganism. The DNA constructs are based upon use of an insertion sequence to achieve stable expression or recombination to insert the gene encoding an NAD-linked formate dehydrogenase into the lactate dehydrogenase gene, thus achieving gene knockout and new functionality in a single step. The microorganisms are useful in fermentation of sugars to produce ethanol.

The present disclosure pertains to a genetically modified microorganism that satisfies some of specific requirements. The specific requirements include: (I) compared to a wild type microorganism, having reduced or inactivated succinate dehydrogenase activity or fumarate reductase activity; (II) compared to a wild type microorganism, having reduced or inactivated lactate dehydrogenase activity; (III) having a modified phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity and thus showing resistance against the feedback inhibition by aspartic acid in wild type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity, or having an exogenous phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity and thus showing higher resistance against the feedback inhibition by aspartic acid than wild type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity shown by a wild type microorganism; and (IV) compared to a wild type microorganism, having reduced or inactivated pyruvate : quinone oxidoreductase.

Provided are: a bacterium belonging to the genus Rhizopus, which has an improved lactic acid production ability; and a method for producing lactic acid using the bacterium. A method for improving the activity of lactate dehydrogenase in a bacterium belonging to the genus Rhizopus, comprising germinating a spore of the bacterium belonging to the genus Rhizopus in a culture solution containing a surfactant under specified conditions to produce a mycelium of the bacterium; and a method for producing lactic acid using the mycelium of the bacterium belonging to the genus Rhizopus.

The present invention relates to a method for preparing a D-lactic acid-producing strain modified to inhibit L-lactate dehydrogenase (L-LDH) activity and to introduce D-lactate dehydrogenase (D-LDH) activity in an L-lactic acid-producing strain, a mutated D-lactic acid-producing strain prepared by the above method, and a method for producing D-lactic acid including the steps of culturing the strain and recovering D-lactic acid from the culture media.

The present invention provides a method for producing lactic acid in a recombinant yeast cell culture using glucose as carbon source comprising a first, seed fermentation stage to produce biomass wherein the yeast is cultivated in a culture medium at a pH of 5 to 7, followed by a second, a production fermentation stage with biomass from the seed fermentation to produce lactic acid, wherein the yeast is cultivated in a culture medium at low p H using a yeast strain that is engineered to have lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity and optionally has decreased or knocked-out pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) activity.

The invention discloses an application of dioscin in preparation of a liver-protecting pharmaceutical preparation. The pharmaceutical preparation can obviously inhibit increase of activity of aminotransferase and lactate dehydrogenase due to medicines (carbon tetrachloride or paracetamol) and alcohol, and reduce the liver indices, thereby performing the liver-protecting function; the pharmaceutical preparation can enhance the activity of SOD, reduce the content of MDA, increase the content of GSH and inhibit liver lipide overoxidation induced by medicines (carbon tetrachloride or paracetamol); and the pharmaceutical preparation can also reduce the content of TG and TC and inhibit the liver steatosis caused by alcohol. The dioscin can be used as the raw material to prepare various preparation formulations for clinic applications according to pharmaceutic related requirements and clinic requirements, such as tablets, capsules, injections, oral liquids, granules and the like. The invention is safe (no toxicity or side effect), convenient, economical and the like.

The invention discloses a method for stabilizing activity of alpha-hydroxybutyricdehydrogenase and lactic dehydrogenase of quality-control serum, comprising the step of freezing and drying a mixture composed of other proteins, trehalose, mannite, glycine, quality-control serum and buffer solution. By the method in the invention, a freeze-drying quality-control serum containing alpha-HBDH and LDH and with stable properties and low price can be provided, the freeze-drying alpha-HBDH and LDH quality-control serum is stable and can be stored in a long term, the activity of the two enzymes of alpha-HBDH and LDH has no obvious change after hydrated reconstruction.