Kao Corporation

Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

Chairman of Research Association for Biotechnology, Eiji Suzuki

Shigeo Inoue

Yoshiharu Kimura

Kenzo Koike

Shigehito Adachi

Susumu Ito

Katsutoshi Ara

Katsuya Ozaki

Kikuhiko Okamoto

Shitsuw Shikata

Ryozo Nakai

Akira Takei

Tomokazu Sato

Yuichi Ota

Sumio Arai

Disclosed herein is a process for producing an unsaturated fatty acid or derivative thereof which comprises culturing an unsaturated fatty acid-producing microorganism belonging to the genus Rhodococcus in a medium containing a saturated fatty acid or a derivative thereof, or causing the resting cells of the microorganisms to act on a saturated fatty acid or a derivative thereof. Also disclosed herein is a process for producing an alkene or derivative thereof which comprises culturing an unsaturated hydrocarbon compound-producing microorganism belonging to the genus Rhodococcus in a medium containing an alkane or derivative thereof, or causing the resting cells of the microorganism to act on an alkane or derivative thereof.

Microorganism belonging to genus Rhodococcus, and a process for

Novel alkaline cellulase K, CMCase I and CMCase II are obtained by isolation from a culture product of Bacillus sp KSM-635. These enzymes stably work in a wide range including an alkaline side, and their activity is shown even at low temperatures. Further, they have a strong resistance to surface active agents, chelating agents and proteinases. Therefore, they can be effectively utilized not only as an additive for clothing detergents, but also as a biomass and in other fields.

Novel alkaline cellulases and a microorganism for producing the same

A novel microorganism Torulopsis bombicola KSM-36 (FERM BP-799) isolated from cabbage leaves grown in a cabbage field located in Musashino-shi, Tokyo, has sophorose-producing activity.

Novel microorganism

A process for the preparation of a dicarboxylic acid using a thermophilic croorganism, and the microorganism used. The process involves cultivating a microorganism belonging to the genus Mycobacterium which produces a dicarboxylic acid at high temperatures in a medium to which a substrate selected from among normal paraffins, fatty acids, and their derivatives, each containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms, has been added, so that a dicarboxylic acid containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms is formed and accumulated in the medium, and collecting the dicarboxylic acid.

Process for the preparation of dicarboxylic acid using microorganism

Disclosed herein is a wood preservative composition comprising the following ingredients (A) and (B):

Wood preservative composition

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Shigeo Inoue