Aspergillus oryzae RIB 40 Genome DB

Aspergillus oryzae RIB 40 genome DB

Aspergillus oryzae is an important filamentous fungus in the Japanese fermentation industry.

It has been used in the manufacture of such products as sake, soy sauce, and miso, as well as in commercial enzyme production, and has been safely used in more than 1,000 years. So, A. oryzae was certified as 'Kokkin (the fungus of Japan)' in the annual meeting of the Brewing Society of japan at 2006 (1). Because of its industrial and academic importance, A. oryzae has been the subject of accelerated projects in expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis and genome sequencing in Japan (2, 3, 4). Now, A. oryzae provides one of the most advanced platforms for genomics and cell biology research on filamentous fungi.
This Aspergillus oryzae RIB40 DB was constructed with the data set called Ace33v2, including our original data. About 37-megabase (Mb) genome of A. oryzae contains 13,765 genes and includes more genes for secretory hydrolytic enzymes, amino acid metabolism and amino acid/sugar uptake transporters compared with the genomes of Aspergillus nidulans and Aspergillus fumigatus.

References
1) Kokkin (PDF file in Japanese)
2) T. Akao et.al., Analysis of expressed sequence tags (EST) from the fungus Aspergillus oryzae cultured under different conditions, DNA Res., 14, 47-57 (2007)
3) Aspergillus oryzae EST DataBase
4) Machida M. et.al., Genome sequencing and analysis of Aspergillus oryzae., Nature, 438,1157-61 (2005)

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last updated 2007/07/20

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