Patent ID: 8530222

Claim:
An isolated microorganism belonging to Enterobacter , which has the ability to produce a dehydrogenase which converts deoxy polyol to deoxy ketose having a keto group (C═O), wherein the deoxy polyol has the same structure at the positions C2 and C3 as that of ribitol or L-iditol and has an alcohol group (H—C—OH) bound to a carbon at the position 2, the alcohol group having D-glycero configuration, wherein the dehydrogenase does not convert D-iditol, D-mannitol and D-talitol to the deoxy ketose where the D-iditol, D-mannitol and D-talitol have an alcohol group bound to a carbon at the position 2, the alcohol group having L-glycero configuration, and wherein the isolated microorganism is the bacterial strain IK7 (accession No. NITE BP-271) of the genus Enterobacter.