Patents Assigned to Mitsui Chemicals, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 5968789
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of producing a taxane-type diterpene(s) wherein tissues or cells of a plant which produces taxane-type diterpene(s) is cultured in the presence of at least one selected from the group consisting of jasmonic acids, compounds containing a heavy metal, complex ions containing a heavy metal, heavy metal ions, amines and antiethylene agents, a method of producing a taxane-type diterpene wherein the tissues or the cells of the plant are cultured by controlling the oxygen concentration in a gas phase in a culture vessel to less than the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere from the initial stage of the culture, or by controlling the dissolved oxygen concentration in a fluid medium which is in contact with the tissue or the cell to less than the saturated dissolved oxygen concentration at that temperature from the initial stage of the culture, a method of producing a taxane-type diterpene wherein the tissue or the cell of the plant is cultured in a culture vessel, while oxygenic g
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihito Yukimune, Yasuhiro Hara, Yosuke Higashi, Naoto Ohnishi, Homare Tabata, Chuzo Suga, Kouichi Matsubara