Patent 7456271 was granted and assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on November, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
There are provided nucleic acids, including isolated DNA molecules, which encode glutamate 2,3-aminomutase enzymes, polypeptides produced from such nucleic acids and methods of making the nucleic acids and polypeptides. There are further provided methods of producing β-glutamate from glutamate using glutamate 2,3-aminomutase.