Biologically pure strain of Enterococcus falcium FERM BP-4504

• US 5,622,859 A
• Filed: 03/28/1996
• Issued: 04/22/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kaguku Kenkyujo
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kaguku Kenkyujo
• Inventors: Iritani, Satoshi, Miyake, Toshio, Chaen, Hiroto, Mitsuhashi, Masakazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Rollins, John W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ware, Deborah K.
• Application Number:
  US08/623,007
• Time in Patent Office: 390 Days
• Field of Search: 424/93.48, 426/53, 435/252.1, 435/822
• US Class Current: 435/252.1
• CPC Class Codes: A23K 10/12 by fermentation of natural products, e.g. of vegetable material, animal waste material or biomass
• CPC Class Codes: A23K 10/32 from hydrolysates of wood or straw
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2400/11 Lactobacillus
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2400/21 Streptococcus, lactococcus
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2400/41 Pediococcus
• CPC Class Codes: C05F 11/08 Organic fertilisers containing added bacterial cultures, mycelia or the like
• CPC Class Codes: C05F 5/002 Solid waste from mechanical processing of material, e.g. seed coats, olive pits, almond shells, fruit residue, rice hulls
• CPC Class Codes: C05F 5/006 Waste from chemical processing of material, e.g. diestillation, roasting, cooking
• CPC Class Codes: C05F 5/008 Waste from biochemical processing of material, e.g. fermentation, breweries
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 1/205 Bacterial isolates
• CPC Class Codes: C12P 19/04 Polysaccharides, i.e. compounds containing more than five saccharide radicals attached to each other by glycosidic bonds
• CPC Class Codes: C12R 2001/46 Streptococcus ; Enterococcus; Lactococcus
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 40/20 Fertilizers of biological origin, e.g. guano or fertilizers made from animal corpses
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 20/145 the feedstock being materials of biological origin
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/87 Re-use of by-products of food processing for fodder production
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 435/822 using bacteria or actinomycetales

Abstract

Disclosed is an alkali-treated bagasse prepared by softening a bagasse with calcium oxide together with or without sodium hydroxide while preventing the substantial decomposition of cellulose and hemicellulose, a bagasse feed and a fermented bagasse feed prepared from the alkali-treated bagasse, and their preparations and uses as well as bacteria for fermenting the alkali-treated bagasse. These bagasse and bagasse feeds save sugar-refinery industries from the difficulties to treat bagasse deemed as an unutilized industrial waste, and livestock farming industries from the shortage of roughage, and further is extremely significant in agriculture, industries of sweetening products, feed industries and livestock product processors. A bacterium strain particularly useful for the fermentation is Enterococcus faecium FERM BP-4504.

Claims

1. A biologically pure Enterococcus faecium FERM BP-4504, which is a bacterium capable of proliferating in an alkaline nutrient culture medium having a pH not less than 9.5.