“…Currently, CDP‐choline is produced using CMP (or its precursor) and choline phosphate (or its precursor) as substrates. As these substrates penetrate into intact cells in an inefficient manner (Kimura, Morita, & Tochikura, 1971), the permeabilized cells of Escherichia coli (Fujio & Maruyama, 1997; Fujio, Teshiba, & Maruyama, 1997; Lee et al, 2009; Liu et al, 2017) or Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Kariya, Kimuta & Tochikura, 1976; Tang et al, 2010, 2009) are usually used as the source of catalytic enzymes.…”