Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Hara

Yoshihiko Hara 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: 8129151
    Abstract: L-Glutamic acid is produced by culturing in a liquid culture medium a microorganism belonging to the genus Pantoea 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: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mika Moriya, Hiroshi Izui, Eiji Ono, Kazuhiko Matsui, Hisao Ito, Yoshihiko Hara
  • Patent number: 8058035
    Abstract: A microorganism which has an L-amino acid producing ability and has been modified so that succinate dehydrogenase activity and ?-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase activity are decreased is cultured in a medium to produce and accumulate an L-amino acid in the medium or cells of the microorganism, and the L-amino acid is collected from the medium or cells to produce the L-amino acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hara, Hiroshi Izui, Jun Nakamura, Ranko Nishi
  • Publication number: 20110212496
    Abstract: An L-amino acid is produced by culturing a bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, which has an L-amino acid-producing ability and inherently has a native activity of a glucose dehydrogenase that uses pyrroloquinoline quinone as a coenzyme, but has been modified so that the activity of the glucose dehydrogenase is reduced, in a medium, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Rie Takikawa, Yoshihiko Hara, Gen Nonaka, Kazuhiro Takumi
  • Publication number: 20110143403
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing L-amino acid, for example L-threonine, L-lysine, L-histidine, L-phenylalanine, L-arginine or L-glutamic acid, using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance an activity of D-xylose permease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna Savrasova, Valeriy Zavenovich Akhverdian, Elena Vitalievna Klyachko, Sergei Vladimirovich Mashko, Vera Georgievna Doroshenko, Larisa Gotlibovna Airikh, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Yoshihiko Hara, Takuji Ueda
  • Patent number: 7919284
    Abstract: A microorganism belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, which has an L-amino acid-producing ability and has been modified so that the kdp system is enhanced, is cultured in a medium to produce and accumulate an L-amino acid in the medium or cells of the microorganism, and the L-amino acid is collected from the medium or cells to produce the L-amino acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Rie Takikawa, Yoshihiko Hara
  • Patent number: 7915018
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing L-amino acid, for example L-threonine, L-lysine, L-histidine, L-phenylalanine, L-arginine or L-glutamic acid, using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance an activity of D-xylose permease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna Savrasova, Valeriy Zavenovich Akhverdian, Elena Vitalievna Klyachko, Sergei Vladimirovich Mashko, Vera Georgievna Doroshenko, Larisa Gotlibovna Airikh, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Yoshihiko Hara, Takuji Ueda
  • Publication number: 20100267094
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bacterium which has an ability to produce a useful metabolite derived from acetyl-coenzyme A, such as L-glutamic acid, L-glutamine, L-proline, L-arginine, L-leucine, L-cysteine, succinate, and polyhydroxybutyrate, wherein said bacterium is modified so that activities of D-xylulose-5-phosphate phosphoketolase and/or fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase are enhanced. The present invention also provides a method for producing the useful metabolite using the bacterium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Akito Chinen, Hiroshi Izui, Yoshihiko Hara, Hisashi Yasueda, Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya, Joanna Yosifovna Katashkina
  • Patent number: 7785858
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bacterium which has an ability to produce a useful metabolite derived from acetyl-coenzyme A, such as L-glutamic acid, L-glutamine, L-proline, L-arginine, L-leucine, L-cysteine, succinate, and polyhydroxybutyrate, wherein said bacterium is modified so that activities of D-xylulose-5-phosphate phosphoketolase and/or fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase are enhanced. The present invention also provides a method for producing the useful metabolite using the bacterium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Akito Chinen, Hiroshi Izui, Yoshihiko Hara, Hisashi Yasueda, Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya, Joanna Yosifovna Katashkina
  • Patent number: 7785845
    Abstract: L-Glutamic acid is produced by culturing a microorganism in which an expression of L-glutamic acid-export gene, a yhfK gene, is enhanced or overexpressed, in a medium to produce and cause accumulation of L-glutamic acid in the medium, and collecting L-glutamic acid from the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hara, Hiroshi Izui, Hisao Ito
  • Publication number: 20100112647
    Abstract: An acidic substance having a carboxyl group is produced by culturing in a medium a microorganism which has been modified to enhance expression of the ybjL gene, and collecting the acidic substance having a carboxyl group from the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hara, Keita Fukui, Yoshinori Tajima, Kazue Kawamura, Yoshihiro Usuda, Kazuhiko Matsui
  • Publication number: 20100062496
    Abstract: A microorganism belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, which has an L-amino acid-producing ability and has been modified so that the kdp system is enhanced, is cultured in a medium to produce and accumulate an L-amino acid in the medium or cells of the microorganism, and the L-amino acid is collected from the medium or cells to produce the L-amino acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Rie Takikawa, Yoshihiko Hara
  • Publication number: 20090286290
    Abstract: A microorganism which has an L-amino acid producing ability and has been modified so that succinate dehydrogenase activity and ?-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase activity are decreased is cultured in a medium to produce and accumulate an L-amino acid in the medium or cells of the microorganism, and the L-amino acid is collected from the medium or cells to produce the L-amino acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: YOSHIHIKO HARA, HIROSHI IZUI, JUN NAKAMURA, RANKO NISHI
  • Publication number: 20090263874
    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: January 17, 2007
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO. INC
    Inventors: Mika Moriya, Hiroshi Izui, Eiji Ono, Kazuhiko Matsui, Hisao Ito, Yoshihiko Hara
  • Publication number: 20090226981
    Abstract: L-Glutamic acid is produced by culturing a microorganism in which an expression of L-glutamic acid-export gene, a yhfK gene, is enhanced or overexpressed, in a medium to produce and cause accumulation of L-glutamic acid in the medium, and collecting L-glutamic acid from the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hara, Hiroshi Izui, Hisao Ito
  • Publication number: 20090215131
    Abstract: The present invention describes an L-glutamic acid-producing bacterium which belongs to the genus Pantoea, Enterobacter, Klebsiella or Erwinia, wherein the bacterium has been modified by gene recombination to inactivate the rpoS gene. A method is also described for culturing the bacterium in a medium to cause accumulation of L-glutamic acid in the medium, and collecting L-glutamic acid from the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hara, Hiroshi Izui
  • Publication number: 20090162907
    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: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi IZUI, Mika Moriya, Seiko Hirano, Yoshihiko Hara, Hisao Ito, Kazuhiko Matsui
  • Patent number: 7501282
    Abstract: A gene isolated from a microorganism selected from the group consisting of Pantoea bacteria, Erwinia bacteria, and Enterobacter bacteria, and encoding a Rep protein or a homologue thereof is described. A plasmid containing the gene which is autonomously replicable in Enterobacteriaceae bacteria is also described. A Enterobacteriaceae microorganism containing the plasmid is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hara, Hiroshi Izui, Hiromi Noguchi
  • Patent number: 7432085
    Abstract: In a method for producing an L-amino acid by culturing a microorganism having an ability to produce an L-amino acid in a medium to produce and accumulate the L-amino acid in the medium and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium, a Gram-negative bacterium having the Entner-Doudoroff pathway and modified so that 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase activity or 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate aldolase activity, or activities of the both are enhanced is used as the microorganism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hara, Hiroshi Izui, Takahiro Asano, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu
  • Patent number: 7344874
    Abstract: L-Glutamic acid is produced by culturing a microorganism in which an expression of L-glutamic acid-export gene, a yhfK gene, is enhanced or overexpressed, in a medium to produce and cause accumulation of L-glutamic acid in the medium, and collecting L-glutamic acid from the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hara, Hiroshi Izui, Hisao Ito
  • Patent number: RE42350
    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: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Izui, Mika Moriya, Seiko Hirano, Yoshihiko Hara, Hisao Ito, Kazuhiko Matsui