Patent ID: 7160704

Claim:
A method for producing an L-amino acid using a coryneform bacterium comprising: (A) culturing a coryneform bacterium having an ability to produce said L-amino acid in a medium, resulting in accumulation of the L-amino acid in the medium or cells of the bacterium, and (B) collecting the L-amino acid from the medium or the cells of the bacterium, wherein a methanol dehydrogenase gene, hexulose phosphate synthase gene and phoshohexuloisomerase gene are introduced into said coryneform bacterium, and said bacterium is modified so that an ability to utilize methanol is imparted, and the medium contains methanol as a carbon source, and wherein said methanol dehydrogenase gene is derived from Bacillus brevis or Bacillus methanolicus, said hexulose phosphate synthase gene is a DNA comprising nucleotides 508 to 1140 of SEQ ID NO: 17 or a DNA that can hybridize with nucleotides 508 to 1140 of SEQ ID NO: 17 under stringent conditions and encodes a protein having hexulose phosphate synthase activity, and said phosphohexuloisomerase gene is a DNA comprising nucleotides 1149 to 1700 in SEQ ID NO: 17 or a DNA that can hybridize with nucleotides 1149 to 1700 of SEQ ID NO: 17 under stringent conditions and encodes a protein having phosphohexuloisomerase activity, wherein said stringent conditions are conditions which allow DNA molecules having 95% homology to hybridize.