Food Industry Research and Development Institute

Ing-Er Hwang

Gwo-Fang Yuan

Yen-Lin Chen

Hing-Yuen Chan

Mei-Huei Chen

Su-Hui Chuang

Chih-Lu Wu

Li-Ling Liaw

Chien-Cho Chen

I-Ching Chen

Ching-Ping Tseng

Ting-Kuo Huang

Yi-Pei Chen

Chun-Lin Wang

Chung-Tsai Lee

En-Hui Kuo

Ming-Chih Lin

Yi-Ju Liu

Ming-Chin Lin

Gwo-Fung Yuan

Promoters and usage thereof. Two promoters, acuF and hsp promoters, comprise the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1 and 2, respectively.

Promoters and usage thereof

Cholesterol inhibitor produced by, monacolin k, is a secondary metabolite of polyketides. The invention provides probes specific to monacolin k biosynthesis gene cluster. BAC clones having putative monacolin k gene cluster were screened from BAC (bacterial artificial chromosome) library, and sequencing and annotation were performed on these clones. The results show that 2 polyketide synthase (PKS) genes and 7 regulatory genes related to monacolin k synthesis were obtained. Full-length cDNAs of these genes were then obtained by RT-PCR and cloned to expression vectors for the expression of these genes.

Monacolin K biosynthesis genes

The invention relates tomutants, which are useful in the preparation of fermentation products having blood pressure lowering activity with a very low amount of citrinin. The invention also provides a process for preparing the fermentation products having blood pressure lowering activity using themutants, and the use of the fermentation products in lowering blood pressure.

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The invention relates to a mutant of , designated as M011, which is useful in the production of yellow pigments with a low amount of citrinin.

Monascus purpureus mutant and its use in preparing yellow pigment

The invention relates to a method of producing chitin or chitosan by culturing a fungus or an fungus and isolating chitosan or chitin from the culture.

Production of chitosan and chitin

The invention relates to a method of producing chitin or chitosan by culturing a,fungus or an,fungus and isolating chitosan or chitin from the culture.

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Jhudong, Taiwan

Ing-Er Hwang