Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated

Fancl Corporation

Kenichi Ishiwata

Toshihiro Oikawa

Setsuo Yoshino

Hideki Kawashima

Tadashi Suzuki

Hiromichi Aoto

Hiroto Shinmura

Aya Mizukuchi

Tomomi Sugino

Sachiko Someya

Keiko Tsuchiya

Sachiyuki Teramoto

Satoru Iwamori

Nobuyoshi Makiguichi

Mitsuo Kise

Masami Imadegawa

The invention relates to germinated brown rice which can be easily and deliciously boiled even by a household rice cooker without impairing its original nutritive value, and has excellent mouth feel and shelf stability. The germinated brown rice can be provided by subjecting germinated brown rice to a heat-moisture treatment and drying the treated germinated brown rice to a water content of 10 to 18% by mass and a degree of gelatinization of 5 to 50%.

Germinated brown rice

Disclosed is a cloned tyrosine phenol-lyase gene which encodes an amino acid sequence represented by the formula [I], which can be expressed in the absence of tyrosine in culturing medium. A recombinant vector containing the tyrosine phenol-lyase gene as well as E. coli transformants capable of producing tyrosine phenol-lyase are also disclosed.

Cloned tyrosine phenol-lyase gene, recombinant plasmid containing the

This invention is a method of producing L-serine by causing glycine to react with formaldehyde by using the culture solution or the microbe cells of a microorganism belonging to the genus Escherichia, having the ability of producing serine hydroxymethyltransferase and not having the practical ability of producing L-serine from glycine alone or enzymatic matter obtained through the treatment of the above culture solution or microbe cells. In this invention, the yield of L-serine can be increased either by carrying out the reaction while maintaining aldehyde concentration at 20 mM or below or by using microbe cells of the aforementioned microorganism after they are caused to contact glycine.

Method of producing L-serine

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Yokohama, Japan

Kenichi Ishiwata