Hiroshima University

Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Company Limited

Gifu University

Omori Machinery Co., Ltd

Shinsuke Sakai

Toshio Omori

Akihisa Kita

Kazue Takaoka

Yutaka Nakashimada

Tohru Suzuki

The present invention provides uracil-requiringbacteria obtained by destroying a gene coding for orotidine-5-phosphate decarboxylase; and transforming-gene-introducedbacteria obtained by introducing a gene coding for orotidine-5-phosphate decarboxylase and a transforming-gene to a chromosome of the uracil-requiringbacteria. The present invention was accomplished by uracil-requiringbacteria, comprising an MTA-D-pF strain that is obtained by destroying a gene coding for orotidine-5-phosphate decarboxylase on a chromosome ofbacteria.

Uracil-requiring moorella bacteria and transforming-gene-introduced moorella bacteria

A method and apparatus adapted to bunch together a predetermined number of inverted PTPs and uninverted PTPs into a bundle, and then transfer each PTP bundle to a bucket conveyor which moves intermittently in parallel with a conveying passage. A multitude of PTPs, a portion of which are inverted with respect to the conveying direction and the rest of which are not inverted, are conveyed along a first conveying passage while maintaining the blistered surfaces of the inverted and uninverted PTPs in parallel with each other. A selected portion of the PTPs being conveyed in the first conveying passage is pinched and separated from the same passage. The separated PTPs are bunched together while the spacing between the separated PTPs is narrowed in the conveying direction. The bunched PTPs are transferred onto a second conveying passage across the first conveying passage. The bunched PTPs are loaded into a bucket provided on a bucket conveyor which intermittently travels along the second conveying passage.

Method and apparatus for bunching PTPs and for transferring the bunched-PTPs

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Chiba, Japan

Shinsuke Sakai