Symposium(Mar. 25, 2012)

Symposium at 2012 Annual Conference of the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry

Date: Mar. 25, 2012

Place: Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto

Organizer: Hiroko Kitamoto, Kazuo Masaki

Program:

1. Non-conventional yeasts for the microbial industry in the next generation.

Masamichi Takagi (Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences)

2. Why the non-conventional yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus is so attractive – Comparison of merits and demerits with Saccharomyces –

Rinji Akada (Yamaguchi University)

3. Possibility of lipid production in yeast Lipomyces.

Takafumi Naganuma1, Kazuo Masaki2, Haruyuki Iefuji2 (1Yamanashi University, 2National Research Institute of Brewing)

4. Toward a comprehensive understanding for yeast diversity in Japan.

Masako Takashima, Moriya Ohkuma (RIKEN)

5. Metabolism of hydrophobic substrates and its regulation in Yarrowia lipolytica.

Ryouichi Fukuda, Akinori Ohta (University of Tokyo)

  • Phosphatidic acid and phosphoinositides facilitate liposome association of Yas3p and potentiate derepression of ARE1 (Alkane-Responsive Element One)-mediated transcription control. Kobayashi S, Hirakawa K, Horiuchi H, Fukuda R, Ohta A. Fungal Genet. Biol., 61 100-110 (2013)

  • An ortholog of farA of Aspergillus nidulans is implicated in the transcriptional activation of genes involved in fatty acid utilization in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. Poopanitpan N, Kobayashi S, Fukuda R, Horiuchi H, Ohta A. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 402 731-735 (2010)

  • Yas3p, an Opi1-family transcription factor regulates cytochrome P450 expression in response to n-alkanes in Yarrowia lipolytica. Hirakawa K, Kobayashi S, Inoue T, Endoh-Yamagami S, Fukuda R, Ohta A. J. Biol. Chem., 284 7126-7137 (2009)

  • Metabolism of hydrophobic carbon sources and regulation of it in n-alkane-assimilating yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. Fukuda R. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 77 1149-1154 (2013)

6. Development of food additive including β-galactosidase that Kluyveromyces lactis produces.

Kazuma Shiota (GODO SHUSEI CO., LTD.)

7. Development of natural moisturizer produced by plant yeast and its application.

Yu Kitagawa (TOYOBO CO.,LTD.)