Patents by Inventor Mika Moriya

Mika Moriya 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: 20070134773
    Abstract: A microorganism which can metabolize a carbon source at a specific pH in a liquid medium containing L-glutamic acid at a saturation concentration and the carbon source, and has ability to accumulate L-glutamic acid in an amount exceeding the amount corresponding to the saturation concentration in the liquid medium at the pH; and a method for producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation, which comprises culturing the microorganism in a liquid medium of which pH is adjusted to a pH at which L-glutamic acid is precipitated, to produce and accumulate L-glutamic acid and precipitate L-glutamic acid in the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Izui, Mika Moriya, Seiko Hirano, Yoshihiko Hara, Hisao Ito, Kazuhiko Matsui
  • Patent number: 7208296
    Abstract: A microorganism is provided which can metabolize a carbon source at a specific pH in a liquid medium containing L-glutamic acid at a saturation concentration and the carbon source, and which has ability to accumulate L-glutamic acid in an amount exceeding the amount corresponding to the saturation concentration in the liquid medium at the pH. Also provided is a method for producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation, which comprises culturing the microorganism in a liquid medium of which pH is adjusted to a pH at which L-glutamic acid is precipitated, to produce and accumulate L-glutamic acid and precipitate L-glutamic acid in the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Izui, Mika Moriya, Seiko Hirano, Yoshihiko Hara, Hisao Ito, Kazuhiko Matsui
  • Publication number: 20060205048
    Abstract: Succinic acid is produced by allowing a bacterium modified to enhance fumarate reductase activity or cell preparation thereof to react with an organic raw material in a reaction solution containing one of a carbonate ion, a bicarbonate ion, and carbon dioxide gas to generate succinic acid. More preferably, succinic acid is produced by allowing a bacterium modified to enhance activities of fumarate reductase and pyruvate carboxylase and decrease lactate dehydrogenase activity or cell preparation thereof to react with an organic raw material in a reaction solution containing one of a carbonate ion, a bicarbonate ion, and carbon dioxide gas to generate succinic acid. Succinic acid is obtained by collecting the produced succinic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Ajinomoto Co. Inc.,
    Inventors: Makoto Murase, Ryusuke Aoyama, Miki Ikuta, Kenji Yamagishi, Mika Moriya, Jun Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kojima
  • Publication number: 20060154344
    Abstract: A bacterium belonging to the genus Escherichia which has an ability to produce L-lysine or L-threonine and which is modified so that a malic enzyme does not function normally in a cell, and a method for producing L-lysine or L-threonine, comprising culturing the bacterium in a medium to produce and cause accumulation of L-lysine or L-threonine, and collecting the L-lysine or L-threonine from the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Stephen Van Dien, Shintaro Iwatani, Yoshihiro Usuda, Kazuhiko Matsui, Yuta Nakai, Tomoko Suzuki, Mika Moriya, Yuichiro Tsuji, Takuji Ueda
  • Patent number: 7015010
    Abstract: A microorganism which can metabolize a carbon source at a specific pH in a liquid medium containing L-glutamic acid at a saturation concentration and the carbon source, and has ability to accumulate L-glutamic acid in an amount exceeding the amount corresponding to the saturation concentration in the liquid medium at the pH; and a method for producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation, which comprises culturing the microorganism in a liquid medium of which pH is adjusted to a pH at which L-glutamic acid is precipitated, to produce and accumulate L-glutamic acid and precipitate L-glutamic acid in the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Izui, Mika Moriya, Seiko Hirano, Yoshihiko Hara, Hisao Ito, Kazuhiko Matsui
  • Publication number: 20050227334
    Abstract: A microorganism is provided which can metabolize a carbon source at a specific pH in a liquid medium containing L-glutamic acid at a saturation concentration and the carbon source, and which has ability to accumulate L-glutamic acid in an amount exceeding the amount corresponding to the saturation concentration in the liquid medium at the pH. Also provided is a method for producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation, which comprises culturing the microorganism in a liquid medium of which pH is adjusted to a pH at which L-glutamic acid is precipitated, to produce and accumulate L-glutamic acid and precipitate L-glutamic acid in the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Izui, Mika Moriya, Seiko Hirano, Yoshihiko Hara, Hisao Ito, Kazuhiko Matsui
  • Patent number: 6682912
    Abstract: A method for producing L-glutamic acid which comprises culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Klebsiella, Erwinia or Pantoea and having an ability to produce L-glutamic acid in a culture medium, and collecting produced L-glutamic acid from the culture medium. The microbial strain used is preferably a strain which decreases in or is deficient in an activity of an enzyme catalyzing a reaction branching from a pathway for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis and producing a compound other than L-glutamic acid, or a strain which increase in an activity of an enzyme catalyzing a reaction for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mika Moriya, Hiroshi Izui, Eiji Ono, Kazuhiko Matsui, Hisao Ito, Yoshihiko Hara
  • Publication number: 20030119153
    Abstract: L-Glutamic acid is produced by culturing in a liquid culture medium a microorganism belonging to the genus Enterobacter or Serratia and having an ability to produce L-glutamic acid, which increases in an activity of enzyme catalyzing a reaction for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis, or which decreases in or is deficient in an activity of an enzyme catalyzing a reaction branching from a pathway for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis and producing a compound other than L-glutamic acid, and collecting produced L-glutamic acid from the culture medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO. INC.
    Inventors: Mika Moriya, Hiroshi Izui, Eiji Ono, Kazuhiko Matsui, Hisao Ito, Yoshihiko Hara
  • Publication number: 20020004231
    Abstract: A method for producing L-glutamic acid which comprises culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Klebsiella, Erwinia or Pantoea and having an ability to produce L-glutamic acid in a culture medium, and collecting produced L-glutamic acid from the culture medium. The microbial strain used is preferably a strain which decreases in or is deficient in an activity of an enzyme catalyzing a reaction branching from a pathway for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis and producing a compound other than L-glutamic acid, or a strain which increase in an activity of an enzyme catalyzing a reaction for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Publication date: January 10, 2002
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Mika Moriya, Hiroshi Izui, Eiji Ono, Kazuhiko Matsui, Hisao Ito, Yoshihiko Hara
  • Patent number: 6331419
    Abstract: L-Glutamic acid is produced by culturing in a liquid culture medium a microorganism belonging to the genus Enterobacter or Serratia. Further, the microorganism having an ability to produce L-glutamic acid, which increases in an activity of enzyme catalyzing a reaction for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis, or which decreases in or is deficient in an activity of an enzyme catalyzing a reaction branching from a pathway for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis and producing a compound other than L-glutamic acid, and collecting produced L-glutamic acid from the culture medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mika Moriya, Hiroshi Izui, Eiji Ono, Kazuhiko Matsui, Hisao Ito, Yoshihiko Hara
  • Publication number: 20010019836
    Abstract: L-Glutamic acid is produced by culturing in a liquid culture medium a microorganism belonging to the genus Enterobacter or Serratia and having an ability to produce L-glutamic acid, which increases in an activity of enzyme catalyzing a reaction for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis, or which decreases in or is deficient in an activity of an enzyme catalyzing a reaction branching from a pathway for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis and producing a compound other than L-glutamic acid, and collecting produced L-glutamic acid from the culture medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 6, 2001
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC
    Inventors: Mika Moriya, Hiroshi Izui, Eiji Ono, Kazuhiko Matsui, Hisao Ito, Yoshihiko Hara
  • Patent number: 6197559
    Abstract: A method for producing L-glutamic acid which comprises culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Klebsiella, Erwinia or Pantoea and having an ability to produce L-glutamic acid in a culture medium, and collecting produced L-glutamic acid from the culture medium. The microbial strain used is preferably a strain which decreases in or is deficient in an activity of an enzyme catalyzing a reaction branching from a pathway for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis and producing a compound other than L-glutamic acid, or a strain which increase in an activity of an enzyme catalyzing a reaction for L-glutamic acid biosynthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mika Moriya, Hiroshi Izui, Eiji Ono, Kazuhiko Matsui, Hisao Ito, Yoshihiko Hara
  • Patent number: 5804414
    Abstract: A method of amplifying a desired gene in a chromosome of a coryneform bacterium, which comprises forming an artificial transposon in which a drug resistance gene and the desired gene are inserted into an insertion sequence of the coryneform bacterium, and introducing said artificial transposon into the coryneform bacterium. In accordance with the method of the present invention, a desired gene can be amplified in a chromosome in coryneform bacteria which are used in the industrial production of amino acids or nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mika Moriya, Hiroshi Matsui, Kenzo Yokozeki, Seiko Hirano, Atsushi Hayakawa, Masako Izui, Masakazu Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 5591577
    Abstract: A DNA fragment which contains a mobile genetic element originated from a strain of the genus Brevibacterium is obtained, and a gene is transferred into the chromosomal DNA of the strain making use of the DNA fragment.This invention provides a DNA fragment which contains a mobile genetic element originated from a strain of the genus Brevibacterium and a process for obtaining the DNA fragment, and a process for transferring a gene into the chromosomal DNA of the strain making use of the DNA fragment and a plasmid vector for use in the gene transfer process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Tsuchiya, Mika Moriya, Kiyoshi Miwa