Biotechnology of Amino Acid Production

An Overview of the Microbial Production of Amino Acids

PART I　　MICROBIAL AND BIOCHEMICAL FUNDAMENTALS
1 Breeding of Amino Acid-overproducing Mutants
2 Application of Intracellular Genetic Recombination to Strain Construction
3 Application of Recombinant DNA Technology of Breeding of Amino Acid-producing Strains
4 Biosynthetic and Metabolic Enzymes of Amino Acids

PART II　　BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGY
5 Raw Materials for Amino Acid Fermentation
6 Biochemical Effects of Oxygen Supply and Carbon Dioxide Removal
7 Automatic Analysis of Amino Acids Using Biosensors
8 Computer Control of Fermentation Processes

PART III　　PRODUCTION OF INDIVIDUAL AMINO ACIDS
9 Glutamic Acid
10 Proline
11 Glutamine
12 Arginine, Citrulline, and Ornithine
13 Aspartic Acid
14 Lysine
15 Threonine and Homoserine
16 Methionine
17 Tryptophan, Phenylalanine, and Tyrosine
18 Serine
19 Cysteine
20 Alanine
21 Isoleucine, Valine, and Leucine
22 Histidine

PART IV　　PRODUCTION OF AMINO ACID-RELATED SUBSTANCES
23 Glutathione and gamma-Glutamylpeptides
24 Microbial Production of D-p-Hydroxyphenylglycine
25 3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine
26 Microbial Amino Acid Antimetabolites
27 beta-Lactam Antibiotics --Biosynthesis of Amino Acid Precursors and Ring Systems--
28 Lipoamino Acid