Toray Industries, Inc.

Suntory Holdings Limited

Japan As Represented by Director-general of National Institute of Infectious Diseases

Suntory Limited

International Flower Developments Proprietary Limited

Niigata Prefecture

Noriko Nakamura

Eiichiro Ono

Masako Mizutani

Takaji Wakita

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Yuko Fukui

Yukihisa Katsumoto

Naoko Okitsu

Tetsuo Sudo

Junichi Togami

Kazumi Nishimura

Daisuke Akazawa

Takatoshi Yamada

Hiroaki Okuhara

Yuko Akazawa

Yosuke Koike

Hitoshi Kobayashi

Toshikazu Nomizu

Yosuke Hoshi

Masayoshi Kondo

Transgenic plants with blue flower color, or their inbred or outbred progeny, or their propagules, partial plant bodies, tissues or cells, are provided. A buckwheat-derived C-glucosyltransferase (CGT) gene or its homolog is transferred into a host plant to cause delphinidin-type anthocyanins and flavone mono-C-glycosides to be copresent in the plant cells.

Buckwheat-derived C-glycosyltransferase gene and utilization thereof

The present invention provides an antibody that specifically binds to envelope protein 2 of HCV of genotype 2but does not immunologically react with envelope protein 2 of HCV of genotype 1.

Antibody binding to envelope protein 2 of hepatitis C virus and method for identifying genotype of hepatitis C virus using the same

An object of the present invention is to provide an antibody inhibiting infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV). The present invention provides an anti-hepatitis C virus antibody that recognizes a whole or a part of the conformation of a hepatitis C virus particle as an epitope and binds thereto, so as to be able to inhibit the binding of hepatitis C virus to the surface of a host cell and to inhibit HCV infection, a humanized antibody thereof, and an inhibitory agent for infection with hepatitis C virus.

Antibody having activity of inhibiting hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and use thereof

There is provided a gene coding for the amino acid sequence listed as SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 70, for example. Co-expression of the 4'CGT gene and AS gene in a plant lacking natural aurone synthesis ability is carried out to successfully accumulate aurones and alter the flower color to have a yellow tint. In addition to the expression of both genes, the flavonoid pigment synthesis pathway of the host plant itself is inhibited to obtain flowers with a more defined yellow color.

Method for producing yellow flower by controlling flavonoid synthetic pathway

Disclosed is a method for determining whether or not a wild rose of interest is crossed with a cultivated rose. The method comprises the steps of: examining whether or not a KSN gene containing a transposon (an indicator) is contained in the rose of interest; and determining that the rose of interest is crossed with a cultivated rose when the individual has the transposon-containing KSN gene.

Method for determination of presence of crossing with cultivated rose in wild rose

The present invention provides SELF protein having controlling effects on growth and differentiation of undifferentiated cells, wherein the protein contains a novel EGF-like repeat sequence, SELF gene encoding the same, a recombinant vector and a transformed cell containing the SELF gene, a method for treatment or prophylaxis with SELF protein or a recombinant expression vector containing SELF gene, SELF promoter, a recombinant vector and a transformed cell containing SELF promoter, and a screening method using the transformed cell containing SELF promoter.

Protein having an EGF-like repeat sequence

The present invention provides an enzyme which catalyzes a reaction to transfer sugar to a hydroxyl group at position 2' of chalcones and a gene thereof, and preferably an enzyme which catalyzes a reaction to transfer glucose to a hydroxyl group at position 2&#x2032; of the chalcones. Furthermore, the invention provides a plant whose flower color has been changed using the glycosyltransferase. Using probes corresponding to conservative regions of the glycosyltransferase, some tens of glycosyltransferase genes having nucleotide sequences corresponding to the conservative regions were cloned from flower petal cDNA libraries of carnation and the like. Furthermore, each of the glycosyltransferase genes was expressed in, activity to transfer glucose to position 2&#x2032; of the chalcone, i.e., the glycosyltransferase activity at position 2&#x2032; of chalcone was confirmed in an extract solution of the, and it was confirmed that cloned genes encoded the glycosyltransferase at position 2&#x2032;.

Glycosyltransferase gene

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Kyoto, Japan

Noriko Nakamura