Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Bridgestone Corporation

Keiichi Yokoyama

Masayo Date

Yoshimi Kikuchi

Yukiko Umezawa

Hiroshi Matsui

Tetsuya Miwa

Nami Nakamura

Katsuya Seguro

Fumi Shozui

Mototaka Suzuki

Norimasa Onishi

Yoshinori Tajima

Tatsuki Kashiwagi

Eiichiro Suzuki

Nobuhisa Shimba

Ryotaro Nakaya

Takashi Ineyama

Hisashi Yasueda

Yasuo Fukushima

Daisuke Ejima

Eiko Oshimura

Yosuke Nishio

Ei-ichiro Suzuki

Kohki Ishikawa

Kazuo Hirayama

Haruo Heima

Seiichi Taguchi

Yoko Mihara

Kunio Nakata

Kunio Ono

Saaya Takaoka

Yasuyuki Hayashi

Minako Harada

A method for perming or coloring hair, in which hair is treated with a cosmetic composition including a protein-glutaminase and not including an alkaline substance. A method of enhancing hair-permeation of an active ingredient included in a cosmetic composition, in which a protein glutaminase is included in the cosmetic composition. The cosmetic composition does not include an alkaline substance, and the active ingredient is at least one of a hair perm agent and a hair coloring agent.

Cosmetic composition

Polyester compounds obtained by reaction of a compound represented by formula (1): (defined herein) with a compound represented by formula (2): (defined herein) exhibit high thermal resistance.

Polyester compound

The present invention provides a method for conveniently and efficiently producing a 3-acetylamino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid-type compound that is a stable compound by a process using a microorganism. Specifically the present invention provides a microorganism having an ability to produce 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid, that is modified so as to increase an activity to form 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid from dihydroxyacetone phosphate and aspartate semialdehyde, wherein the microorganism is modified so as to increase an N-hydroxyarylamine O-acetyltransferase (NhoA) activity, as well as a method for producing the 3-acetylamino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid-type compound using such a microorganism.

Method for producing 3-acetylamino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid

A transglutaminase protein which is mutated to have improved heat resistance and/or pH stability. A mutation is introduced into WT transglutaminase at a cysteine residue capable of forming a disulfide bond (SS bond).

Transglutaminase having disulfide bond introduced therein

The present invention provides means useful for establishing an excellent isoprene monomer production system. Specifically, the present invention provides a polynucleotide of the following (a), (b), or (c):

Isoprene synthase and gene encoding the same, and method for producing isoprene monomer

The present invention provides transglutaminases with improved heat resistance. Specifically, the present invention provides mutant transglutaminase proteins with improved heat resistance as obtained by introducing appropriate mutations into transglutaminases, which results in the incorporation of a disulfide bond.

Thermotolerant transglutaminase originating in actinomyces

The present invention provides a neutral metalloprotease from actinomycetes which selectively cleaves a pro-structure part of a microbial protransglutaminase and a gene encoding said neutral metalloprotease. An active microbial transglutaminase having the pro-structure part cleaved can be obtained by culturing a microorganism into which a gene encoding the neutral metalloprotease from actinomycetes according to the present invention has been introduced, where by producing the neutral metalloprotease from actinomycetes, and reacting it on a microbial protransglutaminase.

Method of producing microbial transglutaminase

Provided is a method for efficiently producing a 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid-type compound by culturing a coryneform bacterium that has a gene encoding a mutated aspartokinase not subject to feedback inhibition, and that is transformed with a recombinant vector containing a DNA encoding a protein having an activity to form 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid from dihydroxyacetone phosphate and aspartate semialdehyde.

Method for producing an aminohydroxybenzoic acid-type compound

The present invention relates to a process for secretory production of a foreign protein, in particular, transglutaminase by a coryneform bacterium. According to the present invention, a process is provided for the secretory production of a foreign protein, in particular, transglutaminase, by making a coryneform bacterium to produce an industrially useful foreign protein, in particular, transglutaminase and efficiently release the product extracellularly (i.e., secretory production). An intended foreign protein, in particular, transglutaminase, is produced by using an expression construct wherein the gene sequence of the intended foreign protein containing the pro-structure part, in particular, pro-transglutaminase gene sequence, is ligated to the downstream of a sequence encoding the signal peptide region from a coryneform bacterium, introducing this expressional genetic construct into a coryneform bacterium, culturing the thus transformed coryneform bacterium, and treating the extracellularly released protein with a protease, etc. to cleave and eliminate the pro-part.

Process for producing transglutaminase

The present invention relates to a method for designing and preparing mutant transglutaminases on the basis of the three-dimensional structure of MTG derived from(MTG), and the mutant MTG thus prepared. The present invention provides a method for modifying MTG on the basis of the three-dimensional structure, and transglutaminase having reactivity on the substrate improved by the method. In the present invention, the binding site of MTG for the substrate is extrapolated based on the three-dimensional structure obtained by X-ray crystal structure analysis of MTG crystals, and the mutant transglutaminases are designed and produced by replacing, inserting or deleting amino acid residues positioned at the substrate-binding site of the transglutaminase.

Polynucleotide encoding a mutant transglutaminase

The object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a heterologous protein by making a coryneform bacterium to produce and efficiently extracellularly secrete (secreto-production) an industrially useful heterologous protein. According to the present invention, a genetic construct is used where a gene sequence encoding an intended protein which is ligated to the downstream of a sequence encoding the signal peptide derived from a coryneform bacterium, the gene construct is introduced into a mutant coryneform bacterium which has a capacity of secreting the heterologous protein at least 2-fold higher than the wild typeATCC 13869, the mutant coryneform bacterium is cultured and the extracellularly released heterologous protein is recovered.

Methods for secretory production of proteins

The present invention relates to a high-yield process for producing high-activity, high-purity transglutaminase by refolding denatured microorganism-derived transglutaminase by reacting denatured transglutaminase in an aqueous medium under acidic conditions and reconstituting a higher-order enzymatically active state in an aqueous medium at a neutral pH.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Keiichi Yokoyama