Patents by Inventor Yoko Asakura

Yoko Asakura 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).

  • Patent number: 8993279
    Abstract: A method for producing an L-amino acid is described, which is characterized by culturing a Vibrio bacterium capable of producing the L-amino acid in a culture medium to produce and accumulate the L-amino acid in the culture medium and collecting the L-amino acid from the culture medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko Asakura, Ippei Inoue, Hisashi Yasueda
  • Patent number: 8293505
    Abstract: An L-amino acid is produced by culturing a microorganism which belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae and is able to produce an L-amino acid, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance orotate phosphoribosyltransferase activity is enhanced, in a medium to produce and cause accumulation of an L-amino acid in the medium or cells, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium or the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko Asakura, Yuri Nagai, Takuji Ueda
  • Publication number: 20100028958
    Abstract: A method for producing an L-amino acid is described, which is characterized by culturing a Vibrio bacterium capable of producing the L-amino acid in a culture medium to produce and accumulate the L-amino acid in the culture medium and collecting the L-amino acid from the culture medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Yoko Asakura, Ippei Inoue, Hisashi Yasueda
  • Patent number: 7608437
    Abstract: A method of producing coryneform bacteria having an improved amino acid or nucleic acid-productivity comprises the steps of introducing a mutation in a promoter sequence of amino acid- or nucleic acid-biosynthesizing genes on a chromosome of a coryneform bacterium so that it is close to a consensus sequence or introducing a change in the promoter sequence of amino acid- or nucleic acid-biosynthesizing genes on the chromosome of a coryneform bacterium by gene recombination so that it is close to a consensus sequence, obtaining mutants of the coryneform amino acid- or nucleic acid-producing microorganism, culturing the mutants and select a mutant capable of producing the intended amino acid or nucleic acid in a large amount. This method allows one of skill in the art to construct a mutant capable of enriching or controlling the expression of an intended gene without using a plasmid and to promote production of amino acids in a high yield, by the recombination or mutation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko Asakura, Jun Nakamura, Sohei Kanno, Mikiko Suga, Eiichiro Kimura, Hisao Ito, Kazuhiko Matsui, Tsuyoshi Ohsumi, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Osamu Kurahashi
  • Publication number: 20090104667
    Abstract: An L-amino acid is produced by culturing a microorganism which belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae and is able to produce an L-amino acid, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance orotate phosphoribosyltransferase activity is enhanced, in a medium to produce and cause accumulation of an L-amino acid in the medium or cells, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium or the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Yoko Asakura, Yuri Nagai, Takuji Ueda
  • Patent number: 7419810
    Abstract: L-Arginine is produced by culturing a coryneform bacterium in which an arginine repressor involved in L-arginine biosynthesis is deleted by disrupting a gene coding for the repressor, and which has L-arginine producing ability in a medium to produce and accumulate L-arginine in the medium, and collecting the L-arginine from the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Yukiko Mori, Hisao Ito, Osamu Kurahashi
  • Patent number: 7329523
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA coding for a protein defined in the following (A) or (B) is obtained from Brevibacterium flavum chromosomal DNA library by cloning a DNA fragment that complicates serB deficiency of Escherichia coli as a open reading frame in the DNA fragment. (A) A protein which comprises an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID: 2 in Sequence Listing; or (B) A protein which comprises an amino acid sequence including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition or inversion of one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 in Sequence Listing, and which has phosphoserine phosphatase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Hisao Ito
  • Publication number: 20070031946
    Abstract: L-Arginine is produced by culturing a coryneform bacterium in which an arginine repressor involved in L-arginine biosynthesis is deleted by disrupting a gene coding for the repressor, and which has L-arginine producing ability in a medium to produce and accumulate L-arginine in the medium, and collecting the L-arginine from the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Yukiko Mori, Hisao Ito, Osamu Kurahashi
  • Patent number: 7160705
    Abstract: L-Arginine is produced by culturing a coryneform bacterium in which an arginine repressor involved in L-arginine biosynthesis is deleted by disrupting a gene coding for the repressor, and which has L-arginine producing ability in a medium to produce and accumulate L-arginine in the medium, and collecting the L-arginine from the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Yukiko Mori, Hisao Ito, Osamu Kurahashi
  • Publication number: 20060293513
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA coding for a protein defined in the following (A) or (B) is obtained from Brevibacterium flavum chromosomal DNA library by cloning a DNA fragment that complicates serB deficiency of Escherichia coli as a open reading frame in the DNA fragment. (A) A protein which comprises an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID: 2 in Sequence Listing; or (B) A protein which comprises an amino acid sequence including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition or inversion of one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 in Sequence Listing, and which has phosphoserine phosphatase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Hisao Ito
  • Patent number: 7029896
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA coding for a protein defined in the following (A) or (B) is obtained from Brevibacterium flavum chromosomal DNA library by cloning a DNA fragment that complicates serB deficiency of Escherichia coli as a open reading frame in the DNA fragment. (A) A protein which comprises an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID: 2 in Sequence Listing; or (B) A protein which comprises an amino acid sequence including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition or inversion of one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 in Sequence Listing, and which has phosphoserine phosphatase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Hisao Ito
  • Publication number: 20060003424
    Abstract: A method of producing coryneform bacteria having an improved amino acid- or nucleic acid-productivity comprises the steps of introducing a mutation in a promoter sequence of amino acid- or nucleic acid-biosynthesizing genes on a chromosome of a coryneform bacterium to make it close to a consensus sequence or introducing a change in a promoter sequence of amino acid- or nucleic acid-biosynthesizing genes on a chromosome of a coryneform bacterium by gene recombination to make it close to a consensus sequence, to obtain mutants of the coryneform amino acid d- or nucleic acid-producing microorganism, culturing the mutants and select a mutant capable of producing the intended amino acid or nucleic acid in a large amount. This method can construct a mutant capable of suitably enriching or controling the expression of an intended gene without using a plasmid and also capable of producing amino acids in a high yield, by the recombination or mutation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Yoko Asakura, Jun Nakamura, Sohei Kanno, Mikiko Suga, Eiichiro Kimura, Hisao Ito, Kazuhiko Matsui, Tsuyoshi Ohsumi, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Osamu Kurahashi
  • Patent number: 6962805
    Abstract: A method of producing coryneform bacteria having improved amino acid or nucleic acid productivity comprising the steps of introducing a mutation in a promoter sequence of amino acid- or nucleic acid-biosynthesizing genes on a chromosome of a coryneform bacterium to make it close to a consensus sequence, or introducing a change in a promoter sequence of amino acid- or nucleic acid-biosynthesizing genes on a chromosome of a coryneform bacterium by gene recombination to make it close to a consensus sequence, to obtain mutants of the coryneform amino acid- or nucleic acid-producing microorganism, culturing the mutants and selecting a mutant capable of producing the intended amino acid or nucleic acid in a large amount. This method allows the construction of a mutant capable of enriching or controlling the expression of an intended gene without using a plasmid and to promote production of amino acids in a high yield by recombination or mutation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko Asakura, Jun Nakamura, Sohei Kanno, Mikiko Suga, Eiichiro Kimura, Hisao Ito, Kazuhiko Matsui, Tsuyoshi Ohsumi, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Osamu Kurahashi
  • Publication number: 20040002143
    Abstract: A method of producing coryneform bacteria having an improved amino acid- or nucleic acid-productivity comprises the steps of introducing a mutation in a promoter sequence of amino acid- or nucleic acid-biosynthesizing genes on a chromosome of a coryneform bacterium to make it close to a consensus sequence or introducing a change in a promoter sequence of amino acid- or nucleic acid-biosynthesizing genes on a chromosome of a coryneform bacterium by gene recombination to make it close to a consensus sequence, to obtain mutants of the coryneform amino acid- or nucleic acid-producing microorganism, culturing the mutants and select a mutant capable of producing the intended amino acid or nucleic acid in a large amount. This method can construct a mutant capable of suitably enriching or controling the expression of an intended gene without using a plasmid and also capable of producing amino acids in a high yield, by the recombination or mutation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2000
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventors: Yoko Asakura, Jun Nakamura, Sohei Kanno, Mikiko Suga, Eiichiro Kimura, Hisao Ito, Kazuhiko Matsui, Tsuyoshi Ohsumi, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Osamu Kurahashi
  • Publication number: 20030114656
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA coding for a protein defined in the following (A) or (B) is obtained from Brevibacterium flavum chromosomal DNA library by cloning a DNA fragment that complicates serB deficiency of Escherichia coli as a open reading frame in the DNA fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO. INC
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Hisao Ito
  • Publication number: 20020120122
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA coding for a protein defined in the following (A) or (B) is obtained from Brevibacterium flavum chromosomal DNA library by cloning a DNA fragment that complicates serB deficiency of Escherichia coli as a open reading frame in the DNA fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO. INC
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Hisao Ito
  • Patent number: 6395528
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA coding for a protein defined in the following (A) or (B) is obtained from Brevibacterium flavum chromosomal DNA library by cloning a DNA fragment that complicates serB deficiency of Escherichia coli as a open reading frame in the DNA fragment. (A) A protein which comprises an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID: 2 in Sequence Listing; or (B) A protein which comprises an amino acid sequence including substitution, deletion, insertion, addition or inversion of one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 in Sequence Listing, and which has phosphoserine phosphatase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Hisao Ito
  • Publication number: 20020045223
    Abstract: L-Arginine is produced by culturing a coryneform bacterium in which an arginine repressor involved in L-arginine biosynthesis is deleted by disrupting a gene coding for the repressor, and which has L-arginine producing ability in a medium to produce and accumulate L-arginine in the medium, and collecting the L-arginine from the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Yukiko Mori, Hisao Ito, Osamu Kurahashi
  • Publication number: 20020038008
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA coding for a protein defined in the following (A) or (B) is obtained from Brevibacterium flavum chromosomal DNA library by cloning a DNA fragment that complicates serB deficiency of Escherichia coli as a open reading frame in the DNA fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Applicant: Ajnomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mikiko Suga, Yoko Asakura, Masakazu Sugimoto, Hisao Ito
  • Patent number: 5977331
    Abstract: Disclosed are coryneform L-glutamic acid-producing bacteria deficient in .alpha.-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, a method of producing L-glutamic acid by using the bacteria, a gene coding for an enzyme having .alpha.-KGDH activity originating from coryneform L-glutamic acid-producing bacteria, recombinant DNA containing the gene, coryneform bacteria harboring the recombinant DNA, and a method of producing L-lysine by using bacteria harboring the recombinant DNA and having L-lysine productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko Asakura, Yoshihiro Usuda, Nobuharu Tsujimoto, Eiichiro Kimura, Chizu Abe, Yoshio Kawahara, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu, Osamu Kurahashi