Suntory Limited

Suntory Holdings Limited

Suntory Limited of 1-40, Dojimahama

Toshihiko Ashikari

Norihisa Nakamura

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Yuji Shibano

Yoshihiro Nakao

Yukiko Kodama

Sakayu Shimizu

Jun Ogawa

Misa Ochiai

Hajime Yoshizumi

Keiko Sakakibara

Haruyo Hatanaka

Tomoko Fujimura

Yuko Fukui

Toru Nakayama

Masahiro Nakao

Masako Mizutani

Takaaki Kusumi

Teruo Amachi

Motoo Sumida

Hiroto Kondo

Yasuji Oshima

Hiroyuki Araki

Hiroyuki Fujiwara

Provided herein are a method for selecting a gene participating in the desired brewing character and compiling a database of the whole genome sequence of industrial yeast; identifying a gene participating in a brewing characteristic from the database; functional analysis of the gene; and a DNA array of the whole genome sequences of an industrial yeast. Also provided are a method for yeast breeding; a method of producing an alcoholic beverage with improved quality; and a screening method to identify genes that increase productivity and/or improve flavor in the production of an alcohol or an alcoholic beverage by (A) analyzing a whole industrial yeast genome sequence, (B) comparing the genome sequence with the genome sequence of, (C) selecting a gene of the industrial yeast encoding having 70 to 97% identity to an amino acid sequence of; and (D) analyzing the selected gene.

Screening method for genes of brewing yeast

The invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding a protein having aromatic acyltransferase activity, vectors comprising aromatic acyltransferase polynucleotides, and methods of transforming plants with anthocyanin acyltransferase polynucleotides to alter flower colors. The invention also relates to transformed host cells, plants, and flower cuts expressing proteins having anthocyanin acyltransferase activity.

Gene encoding a protein having acyl group transfer activity

DNA construct for transforming a yeast

Novel purine nucleosidase derived from Ochrobactrum anthropi microorganisms, a gene system coding therefor, uses therefor and particularly its use in the production of beer.

Purine nucleosidase

A DNA construct wherein a DNA fragment which is recombinable in yeast chromosomal DNA is directly or indirectly linked at both ends of a DNA fragment which comprises a pair of R sensitive sequences oriented in the same direction and flaking both an R gene placed under the control of an inducible promoter and an expressible selective marker gene, which is a DNA construct designed with the R sensitive sequences non-symmetrically shortened, so that no functionable R sensitive sequence remains after the R sensitive sequence recombination has occurred by expression of the R gene and the selective marker has been removed. Since no functionable R sensitive sequence remains after removal of the selective marker, recombination does not occur again, and thus the same selective marker may be used for multiple insertions of foreign genes.

Method for constructing transformant not having selective marker gene

A peroxidase gene derived from Arthromyse ramosus and its cloning and expression in E. coli and yeast is disclosed. The peroxidase encoded by this gene is not-specific and does not contain isozymes and hence is suitable as a diagnostic reagent or as a marker enzyme in enzyme innunoassays.

Peroxidase gene of microbial origin

This invention provides a process for producing ethanol from a starchy material, wherein the starchy material is simultaneously subjected to saccharification and subsequent fermentation by use of a yeast host which has been transformed by an expressible recombinant vector comprising a glucoamylase gene derived from a fungus of the genus Rhizopus.

Process for producing alcohol using yeast transformed by Rhizopus

The present invention relates to the Rhizopus derived glucoamylase gene, a novel recombinant vector comprising said gene, and a microorganism transformed by said vector, as well as a process for reproducing Rhizopus glucoamylase by cultivating the transformed microorganism, especially yeast, in a liquid medium.

Glucoamylase gene of rhizopus oryzae

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Toshihiko Ashikari