Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha

Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Steel Corporation

Toshio Fujii

Akihiro Iwamatsu

Hiroyuki Yoshimoto

Takayuki Bogaki

Toshitaka Minetoki

Naoshi Nagasawa

Toshihiro Toguri

Toshiya Ogawa

Masaharu Yoshioka

Kanji Mamiya

Ryohei Tsuji

Takeshi Kokubo

Hiroyuki Mimura

Masahiro Ohgami

Toshiyuki Ogata

Yuta Komano

Kazunori Shimada

Kosuke Fukao

Munekimi Nanao

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel food material effective for improving skin conditions. The present invention provides a composition for use in improving skin conditions, comprising abacterium as an active ingredient. Examples of thebacterium includeThe skin conditions are skin conditions deteriorated by light exposure, such as an increase in skin redness and a decrease in skin moisture content.

Composition for improving skin conditions

Provided is a pharmaceutical composition and food composition for treating or preventing a skin disease caused by abnormal growth of a skin bacterium or infection with a pathogenic microorganism. A composition comprising a lactic acid bacterium as an active ingredient, for suppressing bacterial abnormal growth, or preventing or ameliorating deterioration of skin condition caused by a bacterial abnormal growth, by oral intake thereof.

Composition which contains lactic acid bacterium as effective component and which is for preventing or ameliorating skin condition deterioration caused by abnormal proliferation of specific bacterium in skin

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel food material effective for recovering from fatigue and/or preventing fatigue accumulation. The present invention provides a composition for use in recovering from fatigue and/or preventing fatigue accumulation, comprising abacterium as an active ingredient.

Composition for recovering from fatigue and/or preventing fatigue accumulation

An object of the present invention is to provide probes and primers for detecting beer-spoilage lactic acid bacteria with accuracy. The probes and primers for detecting beer-spoilage lactic acid bacteria according to the present invention each comprises a nucleotide sequence consisting of at least 15 nucleotides that hybridizes with the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or the complementary sequence thereof.

Polynucleotide probe and primer for detecting beer-clouding lactic acid bacteria and method of detecting beer-clouding lactic acid bacteria

The present invention relates to improved promoters and utilization thereof, in particular to promoters which are improved so as not to undergo methylation in the course of constructing transformants, and utilization thereof. According to the present invention, the expression efficiency of a structural gene can be enhanced even in a plant, e.g., which has weak expression of the structural gene by a cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter which as been considered a high expression promoter for plants.

Promoters and utilization thereof

This invention disclosed herein provides an alcohol acetyl transferase ('AATase'), an AATase encoding gene and a yeast having an improved ester producing ability due to transformation with the AATase encoding gene, This invention also provides a process for producing an alcoholic beverage having an enriched ester flavor using the transformed yeast.

Alcohol acetyltransferase genes and use thereof

This invention disclosed herein provides an alcohol acetyl transferase ('AATase'), an AATase encoding gene and a yeast having an improved ester producing ability due to transformation with the AATase encoding gene. This invention also provides a process for producing an alcoholic beverage having an enriched ester flavor using the transformed yeast.

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshio Fujii