Abstract: A plasma application apparatus including: an application instrument which has a plasma generation unit, and is configured to discharge at least one of plasma generated by the plasma generation unit and a reactive gas generated by the plasma; and a supply unit for supplying electric power and a plasma generating gas to the application instrument, a supporting part extending upward from the supply unit, a power/gas supply line connecting the application instrument to the supply unit, and a connecting part connecting at least one of the application instrument and the power/gas supply line to the supporting part,

Abstract: The hydroponic cultivation apparatus (1) of the present invention includes a container (10), a cover (50), a nutrient solution supply unit (20) for supplying a nutrient solution (W) to a hollow portion (12s) of the container (10), and a water level adjuster (60). The container (10) is formed in a tubular shape. The cover (50) has a size such that the cover (50) can protect rhizosphere (R) and cover the opening (14) of the container (10). The water level adjuster (60) is connected to the container (10) and enables adjustment of the water level of the nutrient solution (W) in the hollow portion (12s).

Abstract: A plant corresponding to an item described in Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan 2015 (Seventh Revised Version) and having a mass content of sodium which is at least 50 times a mass content of sodium of the item described in the Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan 2015 (Seventh Revised Version), the mass content of sodium being measured per unit mass of edible portion of the plant.

Abstract: This invention provides a recombinant protein expression system using a host and cell-free translation system, and is capable of universally expressing a large amount of any protein as soluble protein, while preventing toxicity in hosts, formation of inclusion bodies, and decompositions with proteases. Such may be achieved by expressing the desired protein as a fusion protein with chaperoning, such as about 60 kDa molecular chaperons, 60 kDa heat shock proteins, or thermosomes, and accommodating the desired protein inside of a stereostructure of a chaperonin. The present invention provides a process for producing a protein, which comprises transcribing and translating a gene containing a gene encoding the linked chaperonin subunits and a gene encoding a desired protein thereby synthesizing a fusion protein having the desired protein linked via a peptide linkage to the linked chaperonin subunits.

Abstract: This invention provides a recombinant protein expression system using a host and cell-free translation system, and is capable of universally expressing a large amount of any protein as soluble protein, while preventing toxicity in hosts, formation of inclusion bodies, and decompositions with proteases. Such may be achieved by expressing the desired protein as a fusion protein with chaperoning, such as about 60 kDa molecular chaperons, 60 kDa heat shock proteins, or thermosomes, and accommodating the desired protein inside of a stereostructure of a chaperonin. The present invention provides a process for producing a protein, which comprises transcribing and translating a gene containing a gene encoding the linked chaperonin subunits and a gene encoding a desired protein thereby synthesizing a fusion protein having the desired protein linked via a peptide linkage to the linked chaperonin subunits.

Abstract: This invention provides a recombinant protein expression system using a host and cell-free translation system, and is capable of universally expressing a large amount of any protein as soluble protein, while preventing toxicity in hosts, formation of inclusion bodies, and decomposition with proteases. Such may be achieved by expressing the desired protein as a fusion protein with chaperonins, such as about 60 kDa molecular chaperones, 60 kDa heat shock proteins, or thermosomes, and accommodating the desired protein inside of a stereostructure of a chaperonin. The present invention provides a process for producing a protein, which comprises transcribing and translating a gene containing a gene encoding the linked chaperonin subunits and a gene encoding a desired protein thereby synthesizing a fusion protein having the desired protein linked via a peptide linkage to the linked chaperonin subunits.

Abstract: It is intended to provide techniques whereby a target protein is efficiently obtained as a normal protein even in the case of a protein which can be hardly expressed by usual recombinant DNA techniques. A fusion protein composed of a molecular chaperone, an intervening protein having an activity of cleaving a peptide bond, and a target protein is prepared, from which fusion protein the target protein is cleaved by the action of the intervening protein having the activity of cleaving a peptide bond. Examples of the intervening protein having the activity of cleaving a peptide bond include an intein and a protein consisting of a partial sequence of the intein.

Abstract: The present invention provides a chaperonin-target protein complex and a method of producing the same, and a method of stabilizing the target protein, a method of immobilizing the target protein, a method of analyzing the structure of the target protein, a sustained-release formulation, and a method of producing an antibody against the target protein. The chaperonin-target protein complex in the present invention includes a fusion protein having a chaperonin subunit and an affinity tag linked to the chaperonin subunit via a peptide bond and a target protein for which the affinity tag shows a specific affinity, wherein the target protein is bound to the affinity tag by means of the specific affinity, thereby forming a chaperonin ring structure consisting of a plurality of chaperonin subunits. The chaperonin-target protein in the present invention stabilizes the target protein and surely immobilize on a carrier without causing any change in its stereostructure.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide methods for producing recombinant polyclonal immunoglobulins using recombinant DNA techniques, which provides constant supply of immunoglobulin preparations with minimum risk of infection.

Abstract: This invention provides a recombinant protein expression system using a host and a cell-free translation system capable of universally expressing a large amount of any proteins as soluble proteins while preventing expression of the toxicity of a desired protein in hosts, formation of inclusion bodies and decomposition with proteases by expressing the desired protein as a fusion protein with chaperonins, that are, about 60 kDa molecular chaperones, 60 kDa heat shock proteins, or thermosomes and accommodating it certainly in the inside of a stereostructure of a chaperonin.