Kansai Paint Company, Ltd.

Tottori University

Shimane University

Kenji Okamoto

Hideshi Yanase

Takahide Takadera

Atsuko Sugiura

Toru Nabika

The present invention provides fermented milk having a high angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition activity, a high hypotensive activity and/or a high stroke-preventing activity. The present invention also provides a method for producing fermented milk having a high angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition activity, a high hypotensive activity and/or a high stroke-preventing activity and a method for producing Tyr-Pro, each of which is characterized by comprising fermenting milk with a mushroom.

Method for producing fermented milk having high angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitory activity and method for producing physiologically active peptide

The object is to develop a bacterium capable of fermenting glucose, mannose and xylose simultaneously, which can ferment a saccharified solution of a cellulose-type or lignocellulose-type biomass resource to produce ethanol, and to construct an energy-saving high-efficiency bioethanol conversion process. Thus, disclosed isbacterium which is prepared by integrating a gene encoding a phosphomannose isomerase derived frominto a levansucrase gene located on the chromosome by the double cross-over by means of a homologous recombsination method, and then introducing recombinant DNA prepared by binding a DNA fragment containing genes encoding a xylose isomerase, a xylulokinase, a transaldolase and a transketolase, respectively, all derived fromto a vector. Also disclosed is a method for producing ethanol by continuously fermenting a saccharified solution of a cellulose-type biomass resource in a system on which thebacterium is immobilized.

Bacterium capable of fermenting glucose, mannose and xylose simultaneously, and method for production of bioethanol using the bacterium

This invention provides transformed microorganisms which can produce ethanol from pentose, by introducing pentose metabolizing enzymes into microorganisms belonging to genuswhich cannot utilize pentose.

Pentose-fermentative transformed zymobacter microorganisms

This invention provides transformed microorganisms which can produce ethanol from cellooligosaccharide, by introducing &#x3b2;-glucosidase gene by recombinant DNA method, into microorganisms belonging to genuswhich cannot utilize cellooligosaccharide.

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Tottori, Japan

Kenji Okamoto