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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
May. 20, 2002
Makoto Ito, Fukuoka, JP;
Toyohisa Kurita, Shiga, JP;
Katsuhiro Kita, Nagasaki, JP;
Noriyuki Sueyoshi, Fukuoka, JP;
Susumu Mitsutake, Fukuoka, JP;
Masanori Fujita, Aichi, JP;
Nozomu Okino, Fukuoka, JP;
Hiroyuki Izu, Shiga, JP;
Ikunoshin Kato, Shiga, JP;
Takara Bio, Inc., Shiga-Ken, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a novel sphingolipid ceramide N-deacylase (SCDase) having a wide substrate specificity; a method for enzymatically producing a lysosphingolipid or a sphingolipid derivative using the SCDase which is useful in the fields of medicine, carbohydrate engineering, cell engineering, and the like; the lysosphingolipid or sphingolipid derivative obtained by this production method; a gene which encodes a polypeptide having an SCDase activity useful in sphingolipid technology; a method for industrially producing a polypeptide having an SCDase deacylase activity and a recombinant polypeptide thereof using a transformant to which the gene is introduced; a probe or primer which hybridizes to the gene; and an antibody or a fragment thereof which specifically binds to the polypeptide.