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Aspartase<br />

Escherichia coli<br />

5) Product application<br />

● l-Aspartic acid is used as a precursor for the synthesis of aspartame, an artificial sweetener<br />

(see page 373).<br />

● It is also used as an acidulant, as a food additive, in parentered nutrition and as a chiral synthon<br />

in organic synthesis.<br />

6) Literature<br />

EC 4.3.1.1<br />

● Tanaka, A., Tosa, T., Kobayashi, T. (1993) <strong>Industrial</strong> Application of Immobilized Biocatalysts,<br />

Marcel Dekker Inc., New York<br />

497

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