Patents by Inventor Jingwen Zhou

Jingwen Zhou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240166986
    Abstract: Disclosed is recombinant Escherichia coli for producing L-tyrosine and application thereof, and belongs to the technical fields of genetic engineering and bioengineering. According to the present disclosure, genes aroP and tyrP are knocked out, expresses the endogenous gene yddG of E. coli, then heterologously expresses fpk from Bifidobacterium adolescentis, expresses the endogenous genes ppsA and tktA of E. coli, and then expresses aroGfbr and tyrAfbr. Knocking out tyrR, trpE and pheA, so that the synthesis flux of L-tyrosine is increased. Finally, an endogenous gene poxB is knocked out to realize stable fermentation performance at high glucose concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Jingwen Zhou, Jian Chen, Jurong Ping, Weizhu Zeng
  • Publication number: 20240117387
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a P450 cytochrome enzyme for andrographolide synthesis and its application, belonging to the field of bioengineering. The present disclosure uses Saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK2-1D as a host, and implements knockout of ROX1 and GAL80 genes on the genome, and integrative expression of GGPP synthase encoding gene and CPS diterpene synthase encoding gene at ROX1 site; and implements free expression of ApCPR and CYP71A8 and CYP71D10 both with truncated signal peptides, successfully constructing recombinant S. cerevisiae, and achieving de novo synthesis of 3,15,19-Trihydroxy-8(17),13-ent-labdadiene-16-oic acid. Compared with the blank, a response value of a product peak reaches 1.9*106, and this strategy provides necessary reference for analyzing biosynthetic pathway of andrographolide and using metabolic engineering to synthesize andrographolide and related derivatives thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jingwen Zhou, Shan Li, Song Gao, Sha Xu, Weizhu Zeng, Shiqin Yu
  • Publication number: 20240084338
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a recombinant Escherichia coli for producing rosmarinic acid and application thereof, belonging to the technical fields of genetic engineering and bioengineering. In the present disclosure, FjTA derived from Flavobacterium johnsoniae, endogenous hpaBC derived from E. coli, CbRAS derived from Coleus blumei, HPPR derived from Coleus scutellarioides, and Pc4CL1 derived from Petroselinum crispum are heterologously expressed in E. coli, realizing synthesis of rosmarinic acid. TcTAL derived from Trichosporon cutaneum and tyrC for removing feedback inhibition are introduced, further increasing synthesis throughput of caffeic acid, and PmLAAD derived from Proteus myxofaciens is heterologously expressed, realizing redistribution of L-DOPA. An endogenous gene menl is knocked out, improving the content and stability of a rosmarinic acid precursor. The recombinant strain constructed in the present disclosure can produce rosmarinic acid by fermentation at a yield of up to 511.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Jingwen ZHOU, Jian Chen, Lian Wang, Weizhu Zeng, Shiqin Yu
  • Patent number: 11827878
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses construction of recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae for synthesizing carminic acid and application thereof and belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering and bioengineering. The disclosure obtains recombinant S. cerevisiae CA-B2 capable of synthesizing carminic acid by heterologously expressing cyclase Zhul, aromatase ZhuJ, OKS of Octaketide synthase 1, C-glucosyltransferase UGT2, monooxygenase aptC and 4?-phosphopantetheinyl transferase npgA in S. cerevisiae. The recombinant S. cerevisiae can be used for synthesizing carminic acid by taking self-synthesized acetyl-CoA and malonyl-CoA as a precursor. On this basis, OKS, cyclase, aromatase, C-glucosyltransferase and monooxygenase relevant to carminic acid are integrated to a high copy site, which can remarkably improve the yield of carminic acid. The yield of carminic acid can be increased to 2664.6 ?g/L by optimizing fermentation conditions, and the fermentation time is shortened significantly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jingwen Zhou, Qian Zhang, Song Gao, Jian Chen, Weizhu Zeng, Guocheng Du
  • Patent number: 11639515
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a genetically engineered strain for producing porcine myoglobin and fermentation and purification thereof, and belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering. The disclosure realizes efficient secretion and expression of porcine myoglobin by integrating the gene of porcine myoglobin in P. pastoris. On this basis, optimization of the medium and culture conditions of recombinant P. pastoris can significantly increase the titer of porcine myoglobin, so that the titer can reach 285.42 mg/L under fermenter conditions. In addition, by creatively adding different concentrations of ammonium sulfate to fermentation broth step by step, the purity of myoglobin obtained by final concentration is up to 88.0%, and the purification rate is up to 66.1%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignees: TAIXING DONGSHENG BIO-TECH CO., LTD, JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xinrui Zhao, Bohan Zhang, Jingwen Zhou, Guocheng Du, Jianghua Li, Jian Chen, Fei Yu, Wei Lu, Yuan Qian
  • Publication number: 20230127135
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses construction of recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae for synthesizing carminic acid and application thereof and belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering and bioengineering. The disclosure obtains recombinant S. cerevisiae CA-B2 capable of synthesizing carminic acid by heterologously expressing cyclase Zhul, aromatase ZhuJ, OKS of Octaketide synthase 1, C-glucosyltransferase UGT2, monooxygenase aptC and 4?-phosphopantetheinyl transferase npgA in S. cerevisiae. The recombinant S. cerevisiae can be used for synthesizing carminic acid by taking self-synthesized acetyl-CoA and malonyl-CoA as a precursor. On this basis, OKS, cyclase, aromatase, C-glucosyltransferase and monooxygenase relevant to carminic acid are integrated to a high copy site, which can remarkably improve the yield of carminic acid. The yield of carminic acid can be increased to 2664.6 µg/L by optimizing fermentation conditions, and the fermentation time is shortened significantly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Jingwen Zhou, Qian Zhang, Song Gao, Jian Chen, Weizhu Zeng, Guocheng Du
  • Publication number: 20230122792
    Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of bioengineering and provides a method for improving the specificity and affinity of an aptamer. The method includes: S1, screening a target of an aptamer from a compound information database by virtual computing; S2, verifying the screening result in Step S1 through experiments; S3, performing virtual saturation mutation on a site of the aptamer, and screening out a mutation site of the aptamer; S4, performing base substitution to the mutation site of the aptamer; and S5, detecting the binding parameter of the aptamer after base substitution with the target screened in Step S1, and selecting an aptamer with improved specificity and affinity after base substitution. An efficient molecular design-guided method is developed by computer rational calculation, to improve the specificity and binding affinity of the aptamer by directional modification. The present invention is of great significance for the practical application of aptamers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaole XIA, Yue ZHANG, Ling GAO, Mengfei LONG, Qingtong ZHOU, Jingwen ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20220267823
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a genetically engineered strain for producing porcine myoglobin and fermentation and purification thereof, and belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering. The disclosure realizes efficient secretion and expression of porcine myoglobin by integrating the gene of porcine myoglobin in P. pastoris. On this basis, optimization of the medium and culture conditions of recombinant P. pastoris can significantly increase the titer of porcine myoglobin, so that the titer can reach 285.42 mg/L under fermenter conditions. In addition, by creatively adding different concentrations of ammonium sulfate to fermentation broth step by step, the purity of myoglobin obtained by final concentration is up to 88.0%, and the purification rate is up to 66.1%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Xinrui Zhao, Bohan Zhang, Jingwen Zhou, Guocheng Du, Jianghua Li, Jian Chen, Fei Yu, Wei Lu, Yuan Qian
  • Publication number: 20220177925
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a visualized screening method for an Aspergillus recombinant strain with multigene editing and belongs to the technical field of gene engineering. CRISPR-Cas9 is used in the disclosure to cleave spore color change-related genes and a target gene in Aspergillus at the same time, such that editing of the target gene is visualized and an Aspergillus niger strain with multigene editing can be rapidly and efficiently screened out through spore phenotypes. Through different combinations of visualized genes and non-phenotypic change genes, rapid screening of the strain with multigene editing and simultaneous screening of multiple visualized genes are realized, and use of resistance genes in industrial strains is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Song Liu, Cen Li, Guocheng Du, Jian Chen, Jingwen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220167654
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an automatic production line for manufacturing and processing plant protein meat, and belongs to the field of application of food equipment. The automatic production line for manufacturing and processing the plant protein meat comprises: an extrusion-expansion machine, plant protein meat raw material blocks, a bearing plate, a first manipulator, a storage rack, a first conveying device, a second manipulator, a second conveying device, a main console, a third conveying device, a shredding device, a seasoning adding and mixing device, a third manipulator, a recycling rack, a storage cabinet and a secondary console.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Jingwen ZHOU, Meng NING, Jian CHEN, Weizhu ZENG, Xiaolin LIANG, Jie CHEN, Zhaojun WANG
  • Patent number: 11242548
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for improving the yield and production intensity of Gluconobacter oxydans (G. oxydans) sorbose, and belongs to the technical field of fermentation engineering. By knocking out genes related to formation of D-sorbitol or L-sorbose metabolic by-products in G. oxydans, the formation of the by-products is reduced, and the efficiency of transforming D-sorbitol into L-sorbose is improved, thereby improving the yield and production intensity of L-sorbose. A recombinant strain G. oxydan-11 constructed by the present disclosure, compared with a control strain, has an L-sorbose transformation rate of 96.12%, which is 4.47% higher than that of a wild strain, has a production intensity of 14 g/L·h, which is 14.7% higher than that of the wild strain, and has a fructose by-product content of only 5.6 g/L, which is 45.6% lower than that of the wild strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Jingwen Zhou, Jian Chen, Li Liu, Weizhu Zeng, Guocheng Du
  • Patent number: 11193148
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for extracting alpha-ketoglutarate and pyruvate simultaneously from microbial fermentation broth or enzyme transformation solution, which is related to the technical field of biological separation and extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Jingwen Zhou, Jian Chen, Weizhu Zeng, Guocheng Du, Fang Fang, Song Liu
  • Patent number: 11022622
    Abstract: The invention provides a high-throughput screening system based on multi-manipulators, and belongs to the field of biotechnology and detection equipment. A high-throughput screening system based on multi-manipulators, comprises of the first manipulator, sampler, pipette, plate washer, microplate reader, the second manipulator, centrifuge, deep-well plate library, waste shallow-well plate barrel, shallow-well plate library, waste needle plate barrel, needle library, waste deep-well plate barrel, collection box. The present invention is a combination of microbiology and mechanics. The aim of the invention is to realize the automation and intelligentization of the high throughput screening experiment, effectively improve the experimental accuracy, reliability and efficiency. It contributes to the development of high throughput screening technology for microorganisms and drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jingwen Zhou, Jian Chen, Meng Ning, Guocheng Du, Weizhu Zeng, Xiaomei Cao, Qiuju Zhang, Jun Fang
  • Patent number: 11008552
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multicopper oxidase mutant with improved salt tolerance. Threonine at site 317 of wild-type multicopper oxidase WT was mutated to asparagine, leucine at site 386 was mutated to tyrosine, and serine at site 427 was mutated to glutamic acid by site-directed mutagenesis to obtain a mutant T317N-L386Y-S427E. Compared with WT, the tolerance of T317N-L386Y-S427E to 6%, 9%, 12%, 15% and 18% NaCl (W/V) is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Fang Fang, Tao Yang, Jingwen Zhou, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du, Jie Xu
  • Patent number: 10705104
    Abstract: The present invention provides a production-line-type high-throughput screening system, which relates to the field of biotechnology and testing equipment. The system comprises of four manipulators, three parallel conveyor belts with fixed slots, 2-DOF slipway and fixed fixtures, 96-channel pipetting system, coloring device, oscillating mixing device, microplate reader, well plates loading platform and well plates recycling platform. Manual operation takes five minutes to detect one 96-well plate, while this system can handle 20 96-well plates per minute. It expands the number of screening targets, making the screening process more clearly and concisely and liberating manual labor. The system makes effective contributions to the development of microbial breeding technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Jingwen Zhou, Jian Chen, Jun Fang, Meng Ning, Guocheng Du, Weizhu Zeng, Qiuju Zhang, Xiaomei Cao
  • Patent number: 10659412
    Abstract: A method for saving chat records of instant messaging (IM) includes when an instant message transmitted or received by an IM chat window comprises non-text information, acquiring a content summary of the non-text information, and saving the instant message, and saving the non-text information as a data object comprising the non-text information and the content summary of the non-text information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Jingwen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200048670
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for improving the yield and production intensity of Gluconobacter oxydans (G. oxydans) sorbose, and belongs to the technical field of fermentation engineering. By knocking out genes related to formation of D-sorbitol or L-sorbose metabolic by-products in G. oxydans, the formation of the by-products is reduced, and the efficiency of transforming D-sorbitol into L-sorbose is improved, thereby improving the yield and production intensity of L-sorbose. A recombinant strain G. oxydan-11 constructed by the present disclosure, compared with a control strain, has an L-sorbose transformation rate of 96.12%, which is 4.47% higher than that of a wild strain, has a production intensity of 14 g/L·h, which is 14.7% higher than that of the wild strain, and has a fructose by-product content of only 5.6 g/L, which is 45.6% lower than that of the wild strain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Jingwen ZHOU, Jian CHEN, Li LIU, Weizhu ZENG, Guocheng DU
  • Publication number: 20190382735
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multicopper oxidase mutant with improved salt tolerance. Threonine at site 317 of wild-type multicopper oxidase WT was mutated to asparagine, leucine at site 386 was mutated to tyrosine, and serine at site 427 was mutated to glutamic acid by site-directed mutagenesis to obtain a mutant T317N-L386Y-S427E. Compared with WT, the tolerance of T317N-L386Y-S427E to 6%, 9%, 12%, 15% and 18% NaCl (W/V) is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Fang Fang, Tao Yang, Jingwen Zhou, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du, Jie Xu
  • Publication number: 20190337868
    Abstract: The present invention relates a method of preparing methane using ?-valerolactone. A solution of ?-valerolactone is mixed with a triruthenium dodecacarbonyl catalyst, for a reaction at 150° C.-250° C. for 1 to 12 hours, and then subjected to cooling; wherein a mass ratio of ?-valerolactone to the triruthenium dodecacarbonyl catalyst is between 1:2 and 1:50; and the solution of ?-valerolactone has a mass concentration of 50 g/L-300 g/L. In the present invention, ?-valerolactone is converted into methane rapidly by a one-step catalysis deoxygenation using a triruthenium dodecacarbonyl catalyst. The preparation method provided by the present invention can realize a complete conversion of ?-valerolactone, and the methane gas has a yield up to 45 wt %. Besides, such method has characteristics of short reaction time, high yield of methane, easy collection, simple process and convenient operation, and it has industrialized application prospect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Shimin KANG, Yong WANG, Zhanfu GU, Yongjun XU, Jingwen ZHOU, Taijie LI
  • Patent number: 10392634
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for high-efficiency production of pinoresinol by use of an H2O2 auto-scavenging enzymatic cascade. It uses eugenol as the substrate, which is relatively inexpensive and is industrially available. It uses an enzymatic cascade to remove H2O2 produced in the process of pinoresinol synthesis, thereby reducing its inhibitory effect on the enzyme activity. In addition, the present invention uses whole cells as a catalyst, which can continuously regenerate cofactors needed by the enzyme, thus eliminating the need for exogenous addition of expensive cofactors during the reaction. The yield of the present invention can reach 7.12 g/L and the conversion rate is 61.55%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Jingwen Zhou, Jian Chen, Yongkun Lv, Guocheng Du