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Title:
BACTERIUM HYDROLYZING POLYLACTIC ACID RESIN AND BACTERIUM HYDROLYSIS OF POLYLACTIC ACID RESIN
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3697639
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To obtain the subject bacterium Amycolatopsis mediterranei (FERM P-14,921) having a polylactic acid resin hydrolyzing ability, useful for waste treatment of a polylactic acid resin useful as a material for medical treatment, a medicine, etc.
CONSTITUTION: This new bacterium Amycolatopsis mediterranei (FERM P-14,921) is an actinomyces belonging to the genus Amycolatopsi, having a polylactic acid resin hydrolyzing ability. In waste treatment of a polylactic acid resin having been used as a material for medical treatment and a medicine, an exhaust gas will not emit as incineration as an existing method, the treatment is carried out in a much shorter time than a reclamation treatment. By using the bacterium in composting facilities, a polylactic acid resin can be converted into a useful substance such as an organic acid, etc. The new bacterium is obtained by culturing a bacterium collected from water in soil, a river, a lake or a marsh at Tukuba City in Ibaragi Prefecture in a medium containing a polylactic acid resin, picking up a strain forming a transparent region in the periphery of a colony and carrying out isolation operation.


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Inventors:
Yutaka Tokiwa
Hideo Tanaka
Hardanin Planamuda
Masato Yahata
Application Number:
JP16050195A
Publication Date:
September 21, 2005
Filing Date:
June 27, 1995
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Assignee:
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
International Classes:
B09B3/00; C08L101/16; C12N1/20; C12S99/00; C12P1/06; C12R1/01; (IPC1-7): C12S13/00; B09B3/00; C12P1/06
Domestic Patent References:
JP8252823A
JP5213999A
JP4168150A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yusuke Hiraki
Satoshi Fujita