Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Yoshiki Takashima

Yuko Kobayashi

Satoshi Mitsuda

Ayumu Inoue

Motoo Hazama

Fujio Mukumoto

Kenji Matsumura

Kae Kishimoto

Junko Kudo

Marco Wieser

Kazuo Kumagai

Takeshi Maruyama

Eiji Nitta

Shinya Kimura

Sanae Mine

Ayumi Inoue

The present invention provides an agrochemically active microbial formulation comprising a combination of an agrochemically active microbe with a specified ester compound and a surfactant, the formulation exhibiting a stable pest controlling effect with no harmful effect on a plant and having highly stable viability of the agrochemically active microbe.

Agrochemically active microbial formulation

Esterase genes and uses of the same

A method for producing from one of the optical isomers (optical isomer I) of an amino acid represented by Formula (1):R&mdash;CH(NH )&mdash;COOH (1), wherein R is defined in the specification, the other of the optical isomers (optical isomer II), said method comprising reacting a biological material which has an ability of converting said one of the optical isomers (optical isomer I) to said the other of the optical isomers (optical isomer II), the isomerism being on the basis of an assymetric carbon atom to which both of an amino group and a carboxyl group are bound and said ability being not inhibited seriously by an amino acid transferase inhibitor &bgr;-chloro-D-alanine, &bgr;-chloro-L-alanine or gabaculine, with said one of the optical isomers (optical isomer I).

Methods for producing optically active amino acids

DNA encoding a novel protein from SC-S423 capable of converting acetophenone to an optically active 1-phenylethlamine in the presence of a racemic mixture of sec-butylamine is provided, along with a vector and host cell comprising the same and a method of producing the same.

Protein capable of catalyzing transamination stereoselectively, gene encoding said protein and use thereof

A novel protein from SC-D423 capable of converting acetophenone to an optically active 1-phenylethylamine in the presence of a racemic mixture of sec-butylamine is provided.

Method of resolving 2-oxobicyclo &lsqb;3.1.0&rsqb; hexane-6-carboxylic acid derivatives

Process for producing carboxylic acid isomer using Nocardia diaphanozonaria or Saccharopolyspora hirsuta

There is provided a process for producing an optically active N-substituted azetidine-2-carboxylic acid compound represented by the formula (2): ##STR1## by contacting a corresponding N-substituted azetidine-2-carboxylic acid ester of formula (2) with an enzyme derived from a microorganism selected from Arthrobacter SC-6-98-28 strain, Arthrobacter sp. ATCC21908 strain, Chromobacterium SC-YM-1 strain, and a mutant thereof. A process is also provided for preparing an optically active azetidine-2-carboxylic acid by eliminating the N-substituent of a N-substituted azetidine-2-carboxylic acid ester of formula (2).

Process for producing optically active n-substituted azetidine-2

The present invention provides a process for production of amide compounds, which includes converting a nitrile compound into its corresponding amide compound by hydrating the nitrile compound in the presence of a cultured broth of bacterial cells, intact bacterial cells, disrupted bacterial cells or enzymes contained therein, or immobilized preparations obtainable by immobilizing intact bacterial cells, disrupted bacterial cells or enzymes contained therein, the bacterial cells being those of a biologically pure culture of a thermophilic microorganism having hydration activity to convert a nitrile compound into its corresponding amide compound, such as Bacillus smithii SC-J05-1 (FERM BP-4935).

Process for production of amide compounds using microorganism

There is disclosed a process for production of amide compounds which includes converting a nitrile compound into an amide compound using a cultured broth of bacterial cells, or bacterial cells or materials obtainable by treating bacterial cells, the bacterial cells being cells of a microorganism Agrobacterium radiobacter FERM BP-3843, having activity to convert nitrile compounds into corresponding amide compounds.

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Nishinomiya, Japan

Yoshiki Takashima