Abstract: A method of preparing food to be cooked under heat or food cooked under heat, which is capable of decreasing acrylamide contained in the food after the cooking, wherein the method comprises adding to the food at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (a1) neutral amino acids and salts thereof, (a2) basic amino acids and salts thereof, (a3) neutral imino acids and salts thereof, (b) sulfonic acids and salts thereof and/or at least one peptide complex of peptides having, as constituting components thereof, any one of the amino acids of the items (a1) to (a3).

Abstract: Instant fried noodles with lowered acrylamide. This fried noodles may be prepared by a method comprising kneading a mixture of raw materials containing a cereal flour to prepare noodle dough, preparing strands of noodle with the noodle dough, and frying the strands of noodle to prepare fried noodles, wherein pH of the noodle dough and/or pH of the strands of noodle before the frying is so controlled that a pH value of the fried noodles is 6.5 or less.

Abstract: Peptides having, as constitutive amino acids, (1) 4 glutamine residues, 1 glutamic acid residue, 1 serine residue, 2 valine residues, 1 isoleucine residue and 5 leucine residues, and having a 3-hydroxydecanoyl group bonded, via an amide linkage, to the N-terminal leucine residue thereof; (2) 4 glutamine residues, 1 glutamic acid residue, 1 serine residue, 3 valine residues, and 5 leucine residues, and having a 3-hydroxydecanoyl group bonded, via an amide linkage, to the N-terminal leucine residue thereof; or (3) 4 glutamine residues, 1 glutamic acid residue, 1 serine residue, 2 valine residues, 1 isoleucine residue and 5 leucine residues, and having a 3-hydroxydodec-5-enoyl group bonded, via an amide linkage, to the N-terminal leucine residue thereof. The peptides have an antiviral activity. A strain capable of producing the above peptides and belonging to a new species of genus Pseudomonas.

Abstract: Sulfofucosylacylglycerol derivatives represented by General Formula (1): where R101 represents an acyl residue of a higher fatty acid and R102 represents a hydrogen atom or an acyl residue of a higher fatty acid. The derivatives represented by General formula (1) are useful as a DNA polymerase inhibitor and an anticancer agent.

Abstract: A method of designing a molecular structure of an inhibitor of a target enzyme by analyzing, in the tertiary structure of a first enzyme, a geometric configuration formed by amino acids to which an inhibitor on the first enzyme is to bind. The method comprises (1) a step of determining the amino acid group of the first enzyme to which the inhibitor is to bind, (2) a step of determining the geometric configuration of the amino acid group of the step (1), (3) a step of searching for an amino acid group having a geometric configuration similar to that of the step (2), in the target enzyme, and (4) a step of searching weather or not (i) the amino acids constituting the amino acid group are present at the surface of the target enzyme, and (ii) the amino acids have been conserved in different species by comparison with an enzyme derived from an organism of different types from the organism from which the target enzyme is derived.

Abstract: A method for treating a cancer. The cancer excluding an adenocarcinoma and being epithelioma, glioma, sarcoma, melanoma, lymphoma or leukemia; or the cancer is an adenocarcinoma cancer excluding colon cancer, lung cancer and gastric cancer.

Abstract: An anticancer drug includes a compound represented by Formula (1): where R101 represents an acyl moiety of a saturated higher fatty acid, and R102 represents a hydrogen atom or an acyl moiety of a saturated higher fatty acid, and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A method for immunosuppression in a subject comprising administering to the subject in need thereof, a pharmaceutically effective amount of at least one sulfoquinovosylacylglycerol derivative represented by General formula (1-1): wherein R101 represents an acyl residue of a higher fatty acid, and R102 represents a hydrogen atom or an acyl residue of a higher fatty acid; and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Of the sulfoquinovosylacylglycerol derivatives, &bgr;-sulfoquinovosylacylglycerols are novel compounds. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of the &bgr;-sulfoquinovosylacylglycerols and/or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt; and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. The pharmaceutical composition may be used as an immunosuppressive agent, anticancer agent and DNA polymerase &agr; inhibitor.

Abstract: An anticancer drug includes a compound represented by Formula (1): where R101 represents an acyl moiety of a saturated higher fatty acid, and R102 represents a hydrogen atom or an acyl moiety of a saturated higher fatty acid, and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: An anticancer drug includes a compound represented by Formula (1): 1

Abstract: 1-O-(2-propenyl)-6-O-sulfonylpyranoside represented by the formula wherein R1, R2 and R3 each independently represents an alkyl or substituted silyl group, and R4 represents an alkylsulfonyl or arylsulfonyl group.

Abstract: 1-O-(2-propenyl)-6-deoxy-6-carbonylthiopyranoside represented by the formula wherein R1, R2 and R3 each independently represents an alkyl or a substituted silyl group, and R5 represents a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl or aryl group.

Abstract: A method for immunosuppression in a subject comprising administering to the subject in need thereof, a pharmaceutically effective amount of at least one sulfoquinovosylacylglycerol derivative represented by General formula (1-1): 1

Abstract: Novel sulfofucosylacylglycerol derivatives represented by General Formula (1): 1

Abstract: A medicament containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by General formula (1): 1

Abstract: Novel sulforhamnosylacylglycerol derivatives represented by General Formula (1): 1

Abstract: An apparatus according to the present invention comprises a lift mechanism provided at the end of an introducing-aligning conveyor mechanism and a shutter mechanism overlying the lift mechanism. A plurality of cases are arranged in alignment on the conveyor mechanism. The cases are pushed up by the lift mechanism and supported by the shutter mechanism. When cases of another set are then aligned on the introducing-aligning conveyor mechanism, the shutter mechanism opens, so that the cases supported thereon fall to be stacked on the second set. The stacked cases are pushed up by the lift mechanism and supported by the shutter mechanism. These processes of operation are repeated so that the cases are stacked in layers.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing packed wet-type instant noodles of a double-layered structure which is simple in structure as compared with a three-ply structure, excellent in smoothness, tenacity and softness, and have improved elasticity and firmness. This method comprises the steps of, forming a first noodle strip from a dough obtained by kneading in vacuum a first raw material containing an alkaline agent and raw powders consisting mainly of wheat flour and starch, forming a second noodle strip from a dough obtained by kneading a second raw material in a vacuum higher in degree than that employed in kneading the first raw material, the second raw material containing alginic acid or alginate, an alkaline agent and raw powders consisting mainly of wheat flour and 7.

Abstract: Instant noodles which are formed in a block of a plurality of noodles having a plurality of indented portions in the longitudinal direction and separate at the indented portions into short noodles upon cooking in a cooking pot containing boiling water.

Abstract: Instant noodles which are formed in a block of a plurality of noodles having a plurality of indented portions in the longitudinal direction and separate at the indented portions into short noodles upon cooking in a cooking pot containing boiling water.