Patent 7939302 was granted and assigned to KYOWA HAKKO BIO CO., LTD on May, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention provides a process for producing a dipeptide which comprises culturing in a medium a microorganism which has the ability to produce a protein having the activity to form the dipeptide from one or more kinds of amino acids and which has the ability to produce at least one of said one or more kinds of amino acids, allowing the dipeptide to form and accumulate in the medium, and recovering the dipeptide from the medium.