Patent ID: 8012722

Claim:
A method for producing an L-amino acid comprising culturing in a medium an L-amino acid-producing bacterium which has been modified to enhance phosphotransacetylase activity, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium or the bacterium, wherein said phosphotransacetylase is encoded by a DNA selected from the group consisting of: (a) a DNA comprising nucleotides 1214 to 2641 of SEQ ID: 34, (b) a DNA comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 40, (c) a DNA which hybridizes with a nucleotide sequence which is complementary to the nucleotide sequence of nucleotides 1214 to 2641 of SEQ ID NO: 34, where said DNA hybridizes under stringent conditions and encodes a protein that has phosphotransacetylase activity, and (d) a DNA which hybridizes with a nucleotide sequence which is complementary to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 40, wherein said DNA hybridizes under stringent conditions and encodes a protein that has phosphotransacetylase activity, wherein said stringent conditions comprise washing at a salt concentration of 0.1×SSC, 0.1% SDS at 60° C.