Patent ID: 11920173
Assignee: CHR. HANSEN HMO GMBH
Field: Biotechnology (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  A | IPC A  C

Claim 2:
3. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the genes encoding an enzyme which is involved in the sialic acid catabolic pathway is deleted from the genome of the non-naturally-occurring microorganism, in that the expression of one or more of the genes encoding an enzyme which is involved in the sialic acid catabolic pathway is impaired, or in that the nucleotide sequence of the protein coding region of at least one gene encoding an enzyme which is involved in the sialic acid catabolic pathway is altered such that the polypeptide being encoded by said altered protein-coding nucleotide sequence does not possess the enzymatic activity of the enzyme being encoded by the non-altered nucleotide sequence.