Patent ID: 7846697

Claim:
A method of producing a low molecular weight organic aglycon compound comprising following steps: a) fermenting a microorganism cell in a suitable medium where the microorganism is capable of growing, the microorganism comprising: a gene encoding a product involved in the biosynthesis pathway leading to a low molecular weight organic aglycon compound; and, a glycosyltransferase gene encoding a glycosyltransferase capable of glycosylating the produced aglycon; wherein the cell produces the aglycon, the glycolsyltransferase and, by interaction of gylcosyltransferase with aglycon, the cell also produces the corresponding glycosylated form of the aglycon; b) deglycosylating the glycosylated form of the aglycon; and c) recovering the aglycon compound; (i) wherein the low molecular weight organic aglycon compound has a molecular weight from 50 to 3000, and (ii) wherein the glycosyltransferase is a glycosyltransferase capable of conjugating a sugar to the aglycon compound; and wherein the microorganism cell is a yeast cell; and wherein the low molecular weight organic aglycon compound is vanillin.