The invention provides a novel
transferase that acts on a saccharide, as a substrate, composed of at least three
sugar units wherein at least three glucose residues on the reducing end are linked alpha-1,4 so as to transfer the alpha-1,4 lingages to a alpha-1,alpha-1 linkages; a process for producing the
transferase; a
gene coding for the same; and a process for producing an
oligosaccharide by using the same. Also provided are a novel
amylase that has a principal activity of acting on a saccharide, as a substrate, composed of at least three
sugar units wherein at least three
sugar units on the reducing end side are glucose units and the linkage between the first and the second glucose units is alpha-1,alpha-1 while the linkage between the second and the third glucose units is alpha-1,4 so as to liberate alpha,alpha-
trehalose by hydrolyzing the alpha-1,4 linkage and another activity of hydrolyzing the alpha-1,4 linkage within the molecular chain of the substrate and that liberates disaccharides and / or monosaccharides as the principal final products; a process for producing the
amylase; a
gene coding for the same; and a process for producing alpha,alpha-
trehalose by using a combination of the
transferase and the
amylase.