Using Fungi Patents (Class 435/171)
  • Antibiotics produced by species of Nocardia
    Patent number: 4224314
    Abstract: A species of Nocardia, designated Nocardia argentinensis Huang ATCC 31438, when subjected to aerobic submerged fermentation, produces an antibiotic complex containing as its major component antibiotic Compound 51,467. Methods for the recovery and purification of antibiotic Compound 51,467 and minor antibiotic components, Compounds 52,726 and 52,748, and some of their properties are outlined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1980
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Walter D. Celmer, Paul C. Watts, Walter P. Cullen, Liang H. Huang, Riichiro Shibakawa, Junsuke Tone
  • Manufacture of fatty acids having straight and long carbon chains using a microorganism
    Patent number: 4220720
    Abstract: A method for the oxidation of hydrocarbons to monocarboxylic acids and thence to dicarboxylic acids by the aerobic resting cell reaction of the organism Debaryomyces phaffii ATCC 20499.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1980
    Assignee: Bio Research Center Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Taoka, Seiichi Uchida
  • Antibiotic aculeacin-A.alpha., -A.gamma., -D.alpha. and -D.gamma. and methods for their production
    Patent number: 4212858
    Abstract: Antibiotics aculeacin-A.alpha., -A.gamma., -D.alpha. and -D.gamma. are active against yeasts and fungi. They are produced by culturing the microorganism Aspergillus aculeatus NRRL 11270 in a nutrient medium containing assimilable carbon and nitrogen sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1980
    Assignee: Toyo Jozo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaru Otani, Shuzo Satoi, Masaki Takada
  • Process for producing emitanin
    Patent number: 4177108
    Abstract: EMITANIN having antitumor activity is produced by inoculating mycelia of Tricholoma matsutake, Tricholoma baka-matsutake, Volvariella volvacea or Tremella fuciformis in a medium for growing mycelia and fermenting the grown mycelia in a liquid medium containing a carbohydrate and a nitrogen source and isolating solid substance of mycelia from a broth and extracting the solid substance of mycelia and isolating the active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Inventors: Koji Sakakida, Tetsuro Ikekawa
  • Antibiotic S 31794/F-1
    Patent number: 4173629
    Abstract: This invention provides S 31794/F-1 which is a useful anti-mycotic for combatting Candida albicans infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1979
    Assignee: Sandoz Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael M. Dreyfuss, Hans Tscherter
  • KS-2-A
    Patent number: 4163780
    Abstract: KS-substance was obtained as raw material from the cultured mycelium of Daedalea dickinsii KSDD 6 (FERM-P No. 3993), Lentinus edodes KSLE 7 (FERM-P No. 3994) or Lentinus edodes KSLE 28 (FERM-P No. 4196), and by refining this substance a novel substance KS-2-A was obtained. This substance KS-2-A and also the KS-substance as the raw material both enhance the host defense function of the living body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1979
    Assignee: Kirin-Seagram Limited
    Inventors: Nakao Ishida, Fujio Suzuki, Hiroshi Maeda, Toshikatsu Fujii, Ituro Mizutani