IP Library Granted Patent US 7,279,314
Granted Patent B2
US 7,279,314 · App. 10/767,260 · Granted Oct 9, 2007

Chemical substance having morphogenetic and growth-accelerating activities

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Patent No.
US 7,279,314
App. No.
10/767,260
Granted
Oct 9, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of producing a novel chemical substance capable of inducing morphogenesis, promoting growth of marine foliate green alga that use the microorganisms, and a culturing media for alga containing these novel chemical substances.

Claims (17)

1. An isolated morphogenic and growth accelerating chemical substance 1 having the following physicochemical properties:

(i) color of substance: colorless;

(ii) molecular weight: 457;

(iii) mass spectrometry: FABMS:m/z 456 [M−H] − ( FIG. 1 ); and

(iv) nuclear magnetic resonance signal:

1) 1 H-NMR(D 2 O-20 mM Na 2 HPO 4 (pH 9), 750 MHz): ( FIG. 2 )

δ ppm 0.818 (3H, s), 0.837 (3H, s), 0.882 (3H, s), 0.960 (1H, m), 1.058 (1H, m), 1.167 (1H, m), 1.326 (3H, s), 1.37 (1H, m), 1.38 (1H, m), 1.40 (1H, m), 1.58 (1H, m), 1.61 (2H, m), 1.52 (1H, br d, J=13 Hz), 1.76 (1H, br d, J=14 Hz), 2.024 (1H, m), 2.181 (1H, dd, J=4, 14 Hz), 2.291 (1H, dd, J=14, 16.5 Hz), 7.698 (1H, d, J=7.5 Hz), 7.845(1H, d, J=7.5 Hz); and

2) 13 C-NMR(D 2 O-20 mM Na 2 HPO 4 (pH 9), 125 MHz): ( FIG. 3 )

δ ppm 15.236 (q), 19.037 (t), 20.257 (t), 20.955 (q), 21.835 (q), 25.987 (t), 33.381 (s), 33.636 (q), 37.308 (s), 39.590 (t), 41.199 (t), 42.346 (t), 52.769 (d), 56.381 (d), 79.096 (s), 114.965 (s), 124.399 (d), 139.004 (s), 141.232 (d), 150.282 (s), 152.656 (s), 172.081 (s), 173.538 (s), 174.661 (s).

2. The chemical substance 1 according to claim 1 , which is obtainable from the YM-2-23 strain (FERM BP-8417).

3. The chemical substance 1 according to claim 1 , which is represented by the following formula:

4. The chemical substance 1 according to claim 1 , which has the molecular formula: C 25 H 31 NO 7 .

5. A process for producing a chemical substance 1, wherein microorganisms capable of producing the chemical substance 1 according to claim 1 are cultured in medium, the chemical substance 1 is generated and accumulated in the cultures, and the generated and accumulated novel chemical substance 1 is recovered.

6. The production process according to claim 5 , wherein the microorganisms are YM2-23 strain (FERM BP-8417), or an analogous strain thereof.

7. Culture medium for algae comprising, as an active ingredient, the chemical substance 1 according to claim 1 .

8. A monomethylated, dimethylated, or trimethylated form of the chemical substance 1 obtained by treating the chemical substance 1 according to claim 1 with trimethylsilyldiazomethane.

9. A compound or a derivative thereof obtained by treating the trimethylated form according to claim 8 with sodium borohydride.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 29, 2009
From: SUNTORY LTD.
To: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LTD.
Reel/Frame 022610/0105 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 12, 2008
From: MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
To: SUNTORY LIMITED; SCHOOL JURDICIAL PERSON KITASATO INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 021118/0848 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 10, 2004
From: MATSUO, YOSHIHIDE
To: MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 015453/0403 →