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Enzyme Research

Reports by R.K. Srivastava and co-researchers describe recent advances in enzyme research

Published in Medical Device Law Weekly, April 19th, 2009

"Fermentation with transketolase (tkt) deficient strain of Bacillus is the only reported industrially viable process for production of D-ribose, a commercially important pentose Sugar. In addition to direct effects of tkt deficiency, the mutation in non-oxidative part of pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) is known to display several unexpected physiological characteristics Such as decreased ability to utilize D-glucose, altered carbon catabolite repression, lack of motility, etc," researchers in Bombay, India report.

"Here we demonstrate the morphological plasticity of tkt deficient strain of Bacillus punilus ATCC 21951 and its possible relation with D-ribose productivity,...

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