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Kikkoman Corporation

Satoshi Fukuda

Hiroki Tatsumi

Yasuji Koyama

Mamoru Kikuchi

Kazuhisa Mori

Takao Kishikawa

Tomoharu Sakoda

Takashi Ikimi

Takeharu Nakahara

Tetsuya Oguma

Makoto Saito

Jun Yamakoshi

Nobuhiro Hoshino

Toshisuke Mine

Hitomi Aota

Norikazu Fujii

Kazuyuki Sugiyama

Asako Koyanagi

Kohsuke Matsumoto

A low common salt soy sauce, which has good flavor, significantly suppresses elevation of blood pressure, prevents cardiac hypertrophy, and is also available as special nutritious food, is obtained. 1.0% to 10.0% by weight of potassium chloride and 0.1% to 5.0% by weight of &#x3b3;-aminobutyric acid are added to a reduced common salt soy sauce, so as to obtain a low common salt soy sauce of issue. Otherwise, a KCl-containing low common slat soy sauce is obtained by: (1) a common production method of soy sauce, in which a mixed solution consisting of KCl and common salt is used as mother water; (2) a method of subjecting a soy sauce obtained using saline solution as mother water to electrodialysis, a membrane treatment, or the like, so as to eliminate common salt from the above soy sauce, and then adding KCl thereto; or other methods. Thereafter, &#x3b3;-aminobutyric acid is added to the above KCl-containing low common salt soy sauce, so as to obtain a low common salt soy sauce comprising 0% to 10% by weight of common salt, 1.0% to 10.0% by weight of potassium chloride, and 0.1% to 5.0% by weight of &#x3b3;-aminobutyric acid.

Low-salt soy sauce

A power converter is disclosed, in which the sum of the length of that portion of a control signal line which is in opposite relation to an area of a main circuit wiring where a main circuit current flows and a plurality of tabular conductors are in superposed relation with each other, the length of that portion of the control signal line which is in opposite relation to an area of the main circuit wiring where the main circuit current does not flow and the length of that portion of the control signal line which is located outside an end of the main circuit wiring, is substantially equal to the total wiring length of the signal control line.

Power converter

Provided are novel complexes containing a crosslinked avidin, an analyzing method and analyzing reagents and kits whereby a compound to be analyzed can be quickly, conveniently and accurately analyzed while taking advantage of the avidin-biotin reaction. The complexes contain at least two homogeneous or heterogeneous biotin-introduced products and one crosslinked avidin sandwiched therebetween. In the analyzing method, the homogeneous or heterogeneous biotin-introduced products and the crosslinked avidin are used. The analyzing reagent contains the crosslinked avidin. The analyzing kit contains the crosslinked avidin and a biotinylating agent.

Complexes containing crosslinked avidin, analytical method with the use of crosslinked avidin and analytical reagents and kits

A semiconductor electric power conversion device includes a converter unit and an inverter unit, each having a group of parallel capacitors and multiple switching elements. Subdivided positive conductive connections associated with the converter unit and divided positive conductive connections associated with the inverter unit are formed at a positive side conductor connected to capacitors; while divided negative conductive connections associated with the converter unit and divided negative-polarity conductive connections associated with the inverter unit are formed at a negative polarity side conductor, connected to capacitors. The positive and negative polarity conductors have a multilayer structure with a dielectric plate interposed therebetween. Converter positive and negative polarity conductors are formed into a multilayer structure with the dielectric plate sandwiched between them, and inverter positive and negative polarity conductors are formed into a multilayer structure with the dielectric plate sandwiched therebetween.

Semiconductor electric power conversion device

The present invention relates to biotinated firefly luciferase comprising a biotinated peptide and firefly luciferase linked therein, biotinated firefly luciferase having a specific amino acid sequence, a biotinated firefly luciferase gene comprising a gene coding for a biotinated peptide and a firefly luciferase gene linked therein, a biotinated firefly luciferase gene comprising a biotinated peptide gene coding for a specific amino acid sequence and a firefly luciferase gene linked therein, a recombinant DNA comprising said biotinated firefly luciferase gene inserted into a vector DNA, a process for producing biotinated firefly luciferase comprising culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Escherichia carrying said recombinant DNA and then recovering the resulting biotinated firefly luciferase from the culture, a bioluminescent analysis method comprising using said biotinated firefly luciferase, and a bioluminescent analysis method comprising quantifying a ligand by measuring a biotinated receptor by the use of said biotinated firefly luciferase. According to the present invention, there are provided biotinated firefly luciferase, a biotinated firefly luciferase gene, a recombinant DNA, a process for producing biotinated firefly luciferase and a bioluminescent analysis method. The present invention enables the efficient production of biotinated firefly luciferase of uniform properties with the uniform structure of firefly luciferase in which one biotin molecule has been bound to a specific residue and whose activity is hardly lost by biotination and not lost even binding to streptoavidin or avidin, and the biotinated firefly luciferase of constant properties obtained in the present invention permits highly sensitive measurements in bioluminescent analysis as compared with the conventional chemically modified biotinated firefly luciferase so that the present invention is industrially extremely useful.

Biotinated firefly luciferase, a gene for biotinated firefly luciferase,

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Noda, Japan

Satoshi Fukuda