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Takara Shuzo Co., Inc.

Kaoru Katayama

Ikunoshin Kato

Takeshi Sakai

Katsushige Ikai

Kazuo Shimanaka

Kaoru Kojima

Hitomi Kimura

Takanari Tominaga

Fu-Gong Yu

Yoshikuni Nakanishi

Shinji Nakayama

Hideo Kitano

Apoptosis inducers, anticancer drugs and carcinostatic drugs containing sulfated-fucose-containing polysaccharide(s) and/or degradation product(s) thereof, and a method for inducing apoptosis by using sulfated-fucose-containing polysaccharide(s) and/or degradation product(s) thereof as the active ingredient. A degrading enzyme which is useful in the production of the degradation products of sulfated-fucose-containing polysaccharides.

Apoptosis inducers

Sulfated fucogalactan or its salt useful as a reagent for sugar chain engineering or an HGF-production inducer; a degraded product or its salt obtained by treating the sulfated fucogalactan with a sulfated fucogalactan digesting enzyme; the sulfated fucogalactan digesting enzyme useful in sugar chain engineering; a process for producing the degraded product by treating sulfated fucogalactan or its salt with the above enzyme; and a process for producing the sulfated fucogalactan digesting enzyme.

Sulfated fucogalactan

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Hirosaki, Japan

Kaoru Katayama