HUT CULTURE COLLECTION

HUT CULTURE COLLECTION
PROGRAM OF BIOTECHNOLOGY,GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED SCIENCES FOR LIFE, HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY

Contents

top page

about us

6th Catalog(PDF)
LFilamentous Fungi
LYeast
LActinobacteria
LBacteria

All Catalog (3rd)

Services
LDistribution of strains
LDeposit of strains

References
LLiterature
LMedeum
Labbreviation
LRestoration

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The Purpose of HUT CULTURE COLLECTION

   Since the dawn of history, a microorganism plays a role indispensable to manufacture of more various distillation food and, at present, in addition to these, is useful to production of various substances , such as various amino acid, enzyme, and medical supplies. Moreover, the very important position is occupied as the subjects of an experiment with which a scientific research top also supports progress of life science research on the present molecule level. Once such various strains, namely gene resource, are lost, It is not too much to say that the same thing is not obtained.By such a reason, existence of the institution which saves such heredity resources is very important.

Works of HUT CULTURE COLLECTION

   The main contents of activity of HUT are selling the strain in lots to a researcher in and outside the country, and deposition and preservation of a valuable microbe stock on application on sciences. HUT also corresponds to sale in lots of a microbe stock, and deposition and preservation on activity and the international level as an organization member of a Japanese society of culture collection (JSCC) while joining in World Federation of Culture Collections (WFCC).Now, about 1400 stocks are held as a preservation stock, and about 830 stocks are opened to the public by catalog presentation as being possible to sale in lots.

The History of HUT CULTURE COLLECTION

   The HUT Culture Collection (HUT) was established in 1930 at that time of the Hiroshima Technical College. The HUT started with descendant cultures derived from the Central Laboratory of the South Manchuria Railway Co. (CLMR. now defunct). Following the termination of World War II, the HUT was transferred to the Department of Fermentation Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, in 1949. And then, HUT had been maintained by the Department of Fermentation Technology, Cluster III(Chemical and Bio-Engineering) with a reorganization of the Faculty of Engineering in 1976. After that, the Graduate School(Advanced Sciences of Matter:ADSM) has been newly established, in April, 1998, to do higher education and research with a new framework of two subdivisible fields (Quantum Matter and Molecular Biotechnology) which are organized in a completely interdisciplinary manner. As a result, the HUT Culture Collection was attached to the Department of Molecular Biotechnology, ADSM, from the Faculty of Engineering, in September 1998.
   In the early period, the maintained strains were primarily related to traditional fermentation in Japan. Since then, the HUT Culture Collection has developed until it now has a wide range of non-pathogenic microbes of bacteria, yeasts and filamentous fungi for use in basic and applied research with the advances in microbiology and microbial industry.