年報2013

I. Outline of the Noda Institute for Scientific Research

K. ITO, Y. HANYA, and Y. KOYAMA: Purification and characterization of a glutaminase enzyme accounting for the majority of glutaminase activity in Aspergillus sojae under solid-state culture.
Reproduced from Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 97: 8581-8590 (2013) with permission from Copyright Clearance Center.
M. OGAWA, T. KOBAYASHI, and Y. KOYAMA: ManR, a transcriptional regulator of the β-mannan utilization system, controls the cellulose utilization system in Aspergillus oryzae.
Reproduced from Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 77: 426-429 (2013) by copyright permission of the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry.
K. ITO, Y. KOYAMA, and Y. HANYA: Identification of the glutaminase genes of Aspergillus sojae involved in glutamate production during soy sauce fermentation.
Reproduced from Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 77: 1832-1840 (2013) by copyright permission of the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry.

Hiroyuki ARAI (The University of Tokyo): Analysis of energy metabolism in acetic acid bacteria during oxidation fermentation
Makoto KAWAMUKAI (Shimane University): Development of yeast strains that produce high levels of CoQ10
Jun-ichi MARUYAMA (The University of Tokyo): Molecular investigation of Woronin body function and its application in Aspergillus oryzae
Hiroyuki MORI (Kyoto University): Molecular mechanisms of the enhancement of protein export by the membrane protein complex SecDF
Hiromi NISHIDA (Toyama Prefectural University): Study of Aspergillus nucleosome positioning

Kenji ARAKAWA (Hiroshima University): Analysis of the regulatory genes encoded on a Streptomyces linear plasmid and its application for antibiotic production
Naoki KATO (RIKEN): Screening for small molecules that activate fungal secondary metabolite production
Hiroyuki NAKAI (Niigata University): Production of Novel Functional Oligosaccharides by Novel Bacterial Phosphorylases
Shunichi NAKAYAMA (Tokyo University of Agriculture): Molecular breeding of Clostridia for butanol production from rice straw
Keisuke OBARA (Hokkaido University): Study on the function of sphingolipids during the starvation response
Shosuke YOSHIDA (Keio University): Metabolic and enzymatic analyses of a poly(ethylene terephthalate) assimilation bacterium