Method for preparing cellobiose.

摘要

A method for preparing cellobiose from sucrose in a high yield at low cost without difficulty by using three enzymes of sucrose phosphorylase, glucose isomerase and cellobiose phosphorylase in the presence of orthophosphate. The additional method of the invention comprises 4 steps: to treat sucrose with sucrose phosphorylase in the presence of orthophosphate to produce fructose and glucose-1-phosphate; to treat the fructose obtained in the preceding step with glucose isomerase to produce glucose; to treat the glucose obtained in the preceding step and the glucose-1-phosphate obtained in the first step with cellobiose phosphorylase to produce cellobiose and orthophosphate; and to recover at least a part of cellobiose from the reaction mixture in the preceding step and to recycle at least a part of the remaining reaction mixtue containing orthophosphate to the first step.