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The authors isolated numerous microorganisms with the capacity to assimilate large amounts of benzoate from many soil samples. Several of them were selected and subjected to mutation mainly by ultraviolet irradiation. One mutant lacking active muconate-lactonizing enzyme, the parent strain of which was identified as belonging to the genus Arthrobacter, was isolated and found to be capable of producing cis, cis-muconic acid with a quantitative yield of 44.1 g/l over 48 h in a 30 1 jar fermentor by successive feeding of small amounts of benzoate. This mutant, however, was more sensitive to high concentrations of the substrate than the parent strain. As few intermediates and isomers other than cis, cis-muconic acid were accumulated in the large fermentor, a large amount of pure cis, cis-muconic acid was easily obtained from the broth by salting out and recrystallization at a high recovery rate.
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Mizuno, S., Yoshikawa, N., Seki, M. et al. Microbial production of cis, cis-muconic acid from benzoic acid. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 28, 20–25 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00250491
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