Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Riken Corporation

Kowa Company Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabuhsiki Kaisha

Kabuhsiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Jenjyusho

Haruo Takahashi

Kenro Tokuhiro

Nobuhiro Ishida

Nobuhiko Muramoto

Satoshi Katahira

Chie Imamura

Satoshi Saitoh

Eiji Nagamori

Tohru Ohnishi

Yoshiaki Fukushima

Akihiko Kondo

Hirofumi Takeuchi

Toshio Inagi

Makoto Kanebako

Masana Hirai

Tsutomu Kajino

Akinori Ikeuchi

Moriya Ohkuma

Hiroshi Miura

Shigeharu Moriya

Masayuki Kanishi

Risa Nakamura

Kazuhide Tabata

Chiaki Ogino

Sung-Jin Jo

Kazunori Nakashima

The present invention provides a method for producing a useful substance efficiently from cellulose without using any cellulase preparation. According to the disclosures of the present specification, in the production of a useful substance from a cellulose-containing material, the cellulose-containing material is brought into contact with an ionic liquid to cause the ionic liquid to permeate the cellulose-containing material, and a carbon source comprising the cellulose in the cellulose-containing material is simultaneously saccharified and fermented by a cellulase-producing microorganism in the presence of the ionic liquid.

Method for producing useful substance from cellulose-containing material

It is an object of the disclosure of the present description to provide an eukaryotic cell having xylose utilization ability. The disclosure of the present description provides a novel eukaryotic cell having xylose utilization ability by transforming a yeast or other eukaryotic cell using DNA that codes a xylose isomerase from a termite protist.

Xylose isomerase and use thereof

A cellobiohydrolase that can contribute to a synergistic effect on cellulose degradation and the use of such cellobiohydrolase in cellulose degradation are provided. The synergistic effect is achieved by an enzyme preparation for cellulose degradation containing a cellobiohydrolase originating inand belonging to GHF6 or a variant thereof, and an endoglucanase originating in a different source other than

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A composition containing an extremely poorly water-soluble drug and obtained by treating, with a supercritical fluid or subcritical fluid of carbon dioxide, a mixture comprising a porous silica material and the extremely poorly water-soluble drug; and its production process. The porous silica material has an average pore diameter in a range of from 1 to 20 nm, pores having diameters within &#xb1;40% of the average pore size account for at least 60% of a total pore volume of the porous silica material, and in X-ray diffractometry, the porous silica material has at least one peak at a position of diffraction angle (2&#x3b8;) corresponding to a d value of at least 1 nm. The composition according to the present invention, which contains the extremely poorly water-soluble drug, is excellent in the dissolution of the extremely poorly water-soluble drug.

Composition containing medicine extremely slightly soluble in water being excellent in eluting property and method for preparation thereof

This invention provides a polynucleotide that encodes a protein having lactate dehydrogenase activity and such protein that can be used for producing D-lactic acid. This polynucleotide has the nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 (a), and it hybridizes under stringent conditions with a probe comprising all or part of the nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or a complementary strand thereof and encodes a protein having D-lactate dehydrogenase activity (b).

DNA encoding a protein having D-lactate dehydrogenase activity and uses thereof

The present teachings relate to an acid-resistant endoglucanase, which is a protein exhibiting excellent endoglucanase activity under acidic conditions. The present teachings provide a protein having the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2, a protein having an amino acid sequence with one or more amino acid modifications in the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 and having endoglucanase activity, or a protein having an amino acid sequence with at least 75% homology to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 and having endoglucanase activity.

Acid-resistance endoglucanase and the use of thereof

The invention provides a promoter that can be used in the presence of an organic acid. The promoter includes DNA with promoter activity of high osmolarity response 7 gene (HOR7 gene), glycelaldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase 2 gene (TDH2 gene), heat shock protein 30 gene (HSP30), hexose transport protein 7 gene (HXT7 gene), thioredoxin peroxidase 1 gene (AHP1 gene), or membrane protein 1 associated gene gene) of yeasts.

Promoter in the presence of organic acid and utilization thereof

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Ogaki, Japan

Haruo Takahashi