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  • Highly-branched starch, its production and uses
    Patent number: 8168778
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel starchy substance having a retrogradation-resistance, a process for producing the starchy substance efficiently from a material starch by enzymatic reaction, and uses thereof. The present invention attains the above object by providing branched starch having 6-?-maltosyl- and/or 6-?-maltotetraosyl-structure(s) with a marked retrogradation-resistance, a process for producing the branched starch without lowering the molecular weight of material starch, and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku Kenkyujo
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Katsuhiko Hino, Takanori Okura, Hiroto Chaen, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
  • Non-reducing saccharide-forming enzyme, trehalose-releasing enzyme, and process for producing saccharides using the enzymes
    Patent number: 7186535
    Abstract: A non-reducing saccharide-forming enzyme and a trehalose-releasing enzyme, which have an optimum temperature in a medium temperature range, i.e., a temperature of over 40 or 45° C. but below 60° C.; and an optimum pH in an acid pH range, i.e., a pH of less than 7. The two-types of enzymes can be obtained in a desired amount, for example, by culturing in a nutrient culture medium microorganisms capable of producing the enzymes or by recombinant DNA technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku Kenkyujo
    Inventors: Takuo Yamamoto, Kazuhiko Maruta, Michio Kubota, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake