Patents by Inventor Toru Ezure

Toru Ezure has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220178961
    Abstract: A cell picking device for sucking cells from a liquid sample in a sample container includes a sucking member to which a pipette tip is attachable, a driver that moves the sucking member and performs suction through the sucking member and the pipette tip, a work mode switcher that switches a work mode of the driver between a first mode and a second mode, and a controller that controls the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru EZURE, Mika OKADA, Yuki KUZUHARA
  • Publication number: 20220163553
    Abstract: A cell picking device that sucks cells from a liquid sample in a sample container and accommodates the sucked cells in any of a plurality of wells of an accommodating plate, includes a suction discharger that sucks cells in the sample container and discharges the sucked cells into any of the plurality of wells, the receiver that receives selection of a well in which cells are to be accommodated out of the plurality of wells of the accommodating plate as a selection well, a driver that adjusts a relative positional relationship between the suction discharger and the plurality of wells of the accommodating plate, and a work controller that controls the driver such that the suction discharger discharges cells into the received selection well out of the plurality of wells of the accommodating plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mika OKADA, Yuki KUZUHARA, Yoshitake YAMAMOTO, Toru EZURE
  • Patent number: 7745171
    Abstract: The present invention provides a preparation method of an insect cell extract solution for cell-free protein synthesis, the insect cell extract solution, a protein synthesis method in a cell-free system, which uses the insect cell extract solution, and a kit for cell-free protein synthesis containing the insect cell extract solution. The extract solution is easily prepared by the method of the present invention and can synthesize a higher amount of protein than by extract solutions prepared by conventional methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Ezure, Shoken Higashide, Takashi Suzuki, Masaaki Ito, Koki Endo
  • Publication number: 20090155881
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of conducting cell-free protein synthesis by conveniently suppressing mRNA degradation, and a reaction solution enabling cell-free protein synthesis by conveniently suppressing mRNA degradation. A cell-free protein synthesis method using a cell-free protein synthesis reaction solution containing at least an extract liquid derived from a living cell, a potassium salt, a magnesium salt, adenosine triphosphate, guanosine triphosphate, creatine phosphate, creatine kinase, amino acid, a tRNA, an mRNA, a buffer, and adenosine 3?,5?-bisphosphate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Masamitsu Shikata, Masaaki Ito, Toru Ezure, Takashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20080221311
    Abstract: The present invention provides a preparation method of an insect cell extract solution for cell-free protein synthesis, the insect cell extract solution, a protein synthesis method in a cell-free system, which uses the insect cell extract solution, and a kit for cell-free protein synthesis containing the insect cell extract solution. The extract solution is easily prepared by the method of the present invention and can synthesize a higher amount of protein than by extract solutions prepared by conventional methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Toru Ezure, Shoken Higashide, Takashi Suzuki, Masaaki Ito, Koki Endo
  • Patent number: 7387884
    Abstract: The present invention provides a preparation method of a yeast extract solution for cell-free protein synthesis, which solution is easy to prepare and is capable of synthesizing a higher amount of a protein than by conventional yeast extract solutions, the yeast extract solution, a cell-free synthesis method of protein, which uses the yeast extract solution, and a kit for cell-free protein synthesis containing the yeast extract solution. The method of the present invention includes rupturing a yeast cell in a frozen state, and obtaining an extract thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Toru Ezure, Masaaki Ito
  • Patent number: 7323332
    Abstract: The present invention provides a preparation method of an insect cell extract solution for cell-free protein synthesis, the insect cell extract solution, a protein synthesis method in a cell-free system, which uses the insect cell extract solution, and a kit for cell-free protein synthesis containing the insect cell extract solution. The extract solution is easily prepared by the method of the present invention and can synthesize a higher amount of protein than by extract solutions prepared by conventional methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Ezure, Shoken Higashide, Takashi Suzuki, Masaaki Ito, Koki Endo
  • Publication number: 20070212752
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a method capable of introducing an arbitrary modification group into a synthetic protein and a method capable of easily controlling the syntheses of a modified protein and an unmodified protein. The present invention provides a method of cell-free protein synthesis comprising: performing cell-free protein synthesis using as a reaction solution of cell-free protein synthesis, a mixture solution of an extract derived from a eukaryotic cell and a reagent solution comprising as a substrate, a substance having a desired group to be introduced as a post-translational modification group; and thereby obtaining a protein comprising the post-translational modification group introduced therein. Preferably, the group to be introduced is an acyl group of fatty acid, and the form of the post-translational modification is lipid modification at the N-terminus of the protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicants: Shimadzu Corporation, National University Corporation Yamaguchi University
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masaaki Ito, Toru Ezure, Masamitsu Shikata, Shinichiro Kobayashi, Toshihiko Utsumi
  • Patent number: 7189528
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel extract solution for cell-free protein synthesis, which contains at least an extract derived from a Bombyx mori L. tissue and an exogenous mRNA, which is easy to prepare and which is capable of realizing cell-free protein synthesis that can synthesize glycoprotein, a cell-free protein synthesis method using it, and a method for preparing an extract solution for cell-free protein synthesis, which includes adding an exogenous mRNA to an extract derived from a Bombyx mori L. tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Shoken Higashide, Toru Ezure, Satoko Shiraki, Masaaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20060141559
    Abstract: A method for preparing a cultured mammalian cell extract liquid, comprising at least the step of rapidly freezing a cultured mammalian cell suspended in a solution for extraction; a cultured mammalian cell extract liquid prepared by the process; and a method for cell-free protein synthesis using the extract liquid. Preferably, the method for cell-free protein synthesis comprises the step of prior to conducting of synthetic reaction, effecting incubation of a reaction liquid for cell-free protein synthesis in a state of containing components other than exogenous mRNA for a specified period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Toru Ezure, Masaaki Ito, Shoken Higashide, Koki Endo
  • Publication number: 20060121560
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA fragment allowing easy cloning of a desired gene and capable of further improving translation efficiency, a protein expression vector and a template DNA having the DNA fragment, a mRNA obtained from the template DNA, a reaction solution for cell-free protein synthesis system containing the template DNA or the mRNA, a method for cell-free protein synthesis system using the template DNA, and, kit for cell-free protein synthesis system including the expression vector. A DNA fragment having the base sequence represented by any of SEQ ID No. 1 to 11 to use for promoting translation reaction, a protein expression vector and a template DNA having the DNA fragment, a mRNA obtained from the template DNA, a reaction solution for cell-free protein synthesis system containing the template DNA or the mRNA, a method for cell-free protein synthesis system using the template DNA, and, kit for cell-free protein synthesis system including the expression vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masaaki Ito, Toru Ezure, Masamitsu Shikata, Shinichiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20040191858
    Abstract: The present invention provides a preparation method of an insect cell extract solution for cell-free protein synthesis, the insect cell extract solution, a protein synthesis method in a cell-free system, which uses the insect cell extract solution, and a kit for cell-free protein synthesis containing the insect cell extract solution. The extract solution is easily prepared by the method of the present invention and can synthesize a higher amount of protein than by extract solutions prepared by conventional methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Toru Ezure, Shoken Higashide, Takashi Suzuki, Masaaki Ito, Koki Endo
  • Publication number: 20040137560
    Abstract: The present invention provides a preparation method of a yeast extract solution for cell-free protein synthesis, which solution is easy to prepare and is capable of synthesizing a higher amount of a protein than by conventional yeast extract solutions, the yeast extract solution, a cell-free synthesis method of protein, which uses the yeast extract solution, and a kit for cell-free protein synthesis containing the yeast extract solution. The method of the present invention includes rupturing a yeast cell in a frozen state, and obtaining an extract thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Toru Ezure, Masaaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20030119091
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cell-free protein synthesis method, which produces a protein from an exogenous template DNA via transcription and translation using an extract solution containing at least an extract derived from a Bombyx mori L. tissue and the exogenous template DNA, and an extract solution for cell-free protein synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Toru Ezure, Shoken Higashide, Masaaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20030113836
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel extract solution for cell-free protein synthesis, which contains at least an extract derived from a Bombyx mori L. tissue and an exogenous mRNA, which is easy to prepare and which is capable of realizing cell-free protein synthesis that can synthesize glycoprotein, a cell-free protein synthesis method using it, and a method for preparing an extract solution for cell-free protein synthesis, which includes adding an exogenous mRNA to an extract derived from a Bombyx mori L. tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Shoken Higashide, Toru Ezure, Satoko Shiraki, Masaaki Ito