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The bacterium Erwinia herbicola naturally has the ability to oxidize glucose to 2,5-bisoxo-D-gluconate (Eq. 20-3, step a) but cannot carry out the next step, the stereospecific reduction to 2-oxo-L-gulonate. However, a gene encoding a suitable reductase was isolated from... [Pg.1134]

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