The invention relates to an
inosine monophosphate (IMP)
dehydrogenase from 'Bailing' producing strain
Cordyceps sinensis
Hirsutella sinensis for participating in
anabolism on IMP to obtain a xanthylic acid, a
gene for encoding the
dehydrogenase and application of the
dehydrogenase. The IMP dehydrogenase comprises a
protein shown by SEQ ID No.1 and a
protein shown by SEQ ID No.2, and the coding
gene of the
protein shown by SEQ ID No.1 and the coding
gene of the protein shown by SEQ ID No.2 respectively correspond to a
nucleotide sequence shown by SEQ ID No.3 and a
nucleotide sequence shown by SEQ ID No.4. According to the invention, the
metabolic pathway of the IMP to synthetize the xanthylic acid is traversed from the principle; the
cloning deoxyribonucleic acids (
DNA) of the
nucleotide sequences provided by the invention can be transferred into
engineering bacteria through a transduction method, a transformation method and a conjugal transfer method; and through regulating the expression of the biosynthetic gene of the xanthylic acid, the high
expressivity of a host xanthylic acid is endowed, and an effective way for increasing the yield of the xanthylic acid is provided. The IMP dehydrogenase has a great application prospect.