Patent ID: 7235388

Claim:
An isolated nucleic acid sequence selected from the group consisting of: (a) the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 encoding a protein having L-lysine: 2-oxoglutaric acid 6-aminotransferase activity, or the full complement thereof; (b) a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 11 which has L-lysine: 2-oxoglutaric acid 6-aminotransferase activity, or the full complement thereof; (c) a nucleotide sequence consisting of nucleotides 545 to 2658 of SEQ ID NO: 1 encoding a protein having L-lysine: 2-oxoglutaric acid 6-aminotransferase activity, or the full complement thereof; (d) a nucleotide sequence consisting of nucleotides 801 to 2276 of SEQ ID NO: 1 encoding a protein having L-lysine: 2-oxoglutaric acid 6-aminotransferase activity, or the full complement thereof; (e) a nucleotide sequence which has at least 95% homology with the nucleotide sequence of (c) or (d) encoding a protein having L-lysine: 2-oxoglutaric acid 6-aminotransferase activity, or the full complement thereof; (f) a fragment of nucleotide sequence (a) or (b) encoding a protein having L-lysine: 2-oxoglutaric acid 6-aminotransferase activity, or the full complement thereof; and (g) a nucleotide sequence which hybridizes under stringent conditions at 60° C. in 0.2×SSC to sequence (a), (b), (c), (d), or (f) and encodes a protein having L-lysine: 2-oxoglutaric acid 6-aminotransferase activity.