PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ETHANOL BY USING RECOMBINANT CORYNEFORM BACTERIUM

摘要

A process for highly efficiently producing ethanol at a high productivity by using a coryneform bacterium, which has been transformed by DNA containing a gene expressing a pyruvate decarboxylase activity and, if desired, a gene expressing an alcohol dehydrogenase activity under a regulatory sequence allowing the expression, under ethanol production conditions wherein this bacterium does not substantially proliferate.