Patent ID: 8530203

Claim:
A process for producing an amino acid, comprising culturing a microorganism in a medium; forming and accumulating the amino acid in a culture; and collecting the amino acid from the culture, wherein the microorganism (a) belongs to coryneform bacteria, (b) has an ability to produce the amino acid, and (c) has an enhanced ability to transport a sugar selected from the group consisting of glucose, fructose, and sucrose into a cell via a protein defined in any one of [1] to [4] below by introducing a recombinant DNA encoding the protein into a coryneform bacterium that is used as a host; [1] a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 14; [2] a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 14, wherein 1 to 20 amino acid residues are added, deleted, or substituted, wherein the protein has myo-inositol transport activity, and wherein the protein is homologous to a protein consisting of SEQ ID NO: 14; [3] a protein encoded b DNA comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15; and [4] a protein encoded by DNA comprising a nucleotide sequence having 95% or more identity to the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 15, wherein the protein has myo-inositol transport activity, and wherein the protein is homologous to a protein consisting of SEQ ID NO: 14.