摘要:
The object of this invention is to provide a method for purifying PHA separated from PHA-containing microbial cells in high purity without incurring any serious decrease in molecular weight. The present invention provides a method for purifying a 3-hydroxyalkanoic acid copolymer produced by a microorganism, which comprises treating an aqueous suspension containing the 3-hydroxyalkanoic acid copolymer separated from a microorganism with a hydrogen peroxide while controlling the pH of said aqueous suspension by adding an alkali either continuously or intermittently.
摘要:
The invention provides a yeast in which a specific gene alone has been disrupted and to which auxotrophy is impared to construct a system for producing an industrially useful substance through gene recombination by utilizing characteristics of a yeast. In the practice of the invention, a yeast strain in which ADE1 gene has been disrupted is constructed by homologous recombination with a chromosomal DNA by using an ADE1 gene fragment encoding phosphoribosylaminoimidazole succinocarboxamide synthase (EC6.3.2.6) of Candida maltosa. In the practice of the invention, then, this disrupted strain is transformed by a gene expression cassette containing a biodegradable polyester synthase gene and the obtained transformant is cultured to thereby produce biodegradable polyester.
摘要:
A process for efficiently producing optically active amino compounds, mainly (R)-amino compounds, at a low cost by means of a microbial enzyme; a polypeptide suitable for use in the production process and having a stereoselective transaminase activity; and a DNA coding for the polypeptide. The process is characterized by comprising causing a transaminase to act on a ketone compound as an amino acceptor in the presence of a primary amine as an amino donor to stereoselectively transfer the amino group to thus obtain an optically active amino compound. The DNA contains a base sequence coding for a polypeptide having a stereoselective transaminase activity. The polypeptide can be obtained by incubating a microorganism belonging to the genus Arthrobacter .
摘要:
This invention provides a method of plant transformation via Agrobacterium comprising inoculating and infecting a plant with an Agrobacterium carrying a foreign-gene-containing vector under application of a plant growth-inhibiting hormone. This invention also provides a method of plant transformation via Agrobacterium comprising transforming a plant with an Agrobacterium carrying a vector comprising a T-DNA region in which a foreign gene is contained but no selectable marker gene is contained.
摘要:
It is intended to provide a method of purifying PHA, which is separated from PHA-containing microbial cells, at a high purity without causing a considerable decrease in its molecular weight. Namely, a method of purifying a 3-hydroxyalkanoic acid copolymer produced by a microorganism wherein a treatment with hydrogen peroxide is carried out while continuously or intermittently adding an alkali to an aqueous suspension containing the 3-hydroxyalkanoic acid copolymer separated from the microorganism to thereby control the pH value of the aqueous suspension.
摘要:
The present invention has an object to provide a method for separating and purifying a PHA without causing a serious decrease of the molecular weight to obtain a highly pure PHA in a high yield, which comprises efficiently removing cell components other than PHA particles from a cultured PHA-containing microbial cell. Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for obtaining an agglomerate of PHA particles. The method for recovering a PHA according to the present invention is a method which comprises efficiently disrupting a cell to recover the PHA by carrying out a physical disruption treatment and an alkali addition at low temperature for an aqueous suspension of the PHA-containing microbial cell, and then treating the PHA with an enzyme and/or a surfactant. Moreover, the particle diameter of the PHA may be enlarged by suspending the PHA in a hydrophilic solvent and/or water, and stirring at a temperature equal to or below the boiling point of said suspension, to agglomerate said PHA.
摘要:
The invention aims at providing a method of producing a poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid, which comprises carrying out a physical disruption treatment of a suspension of poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid-containing microbial cells with adding an alkali thereto either continuously or intermittently and, thereafter, separating the poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid.
摘要:
The present invention provides a production method of a copolymeric polyester which comprises culturing an ACT1 gene promoter shown under SEQ ID NO:9, a GAP3 gene promoter shown under SEQ ID NO:10; a PMA1 gene promoter shown under SEQ ID NO:11, and, a TEF1 gene promoter shown under SEQ ID NO:12; a plasmid which contains the gene expression unit comprising said promoter; a transformed cell as resulting from transformation of the said plasmid; and said transformed cell.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a gene coding for a copolyester-synthesizing enzyme, a microorganism which utilizes said gene for the fermentative synthesis of a polyester, and a method of producing a polyester with the aid of said microorganism. More particularly, the present invention relates to a gene which functions in a host organism and is related to synthesize, by an enzyme, a plastic-like polymer degradable under the action of microorganisms in the natural environment (the soil, river or sea), a transformant derived from said host organism by transformation with said gene and having an improved ability to fermentatively synthesize a plastic-like polymer, and a method of producing a copolyester with the aid of said transformant.