Patents by Inventor Juan Manuel Lema Rodicio

Juan Manuel Lema Rodicio 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).

  • Patent number: 10982246
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an industrial scale method to obtain 1-kestose by the use of a recombinant fructosyltransferase (FTF), isolated from Festuca arundinacea, expressed constitutively in a non-saccharolytic yeast. In this invention, the recombinant FTF type sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SSTrec) is produced constitutively, stable and at high yield, both in the culture supernatant and in intact cells of the host Pichia pastoris. Hence, the invention additionally provides a method for 1-SST production at industrial scale. The recombinant enzyme is then used for mass production of short-chain fructooligosaccharides (FOS), specifically 1-kestose, from sucrose. The method of the present invention establishes conditions that allow conversion rates where the synthesized FOS constitute above 55% (w/w) of the total sugars in the reaction mixture and the 1-kestose content reaches values higher than 90% (w/w) of the total FOS fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Centro de Ingenierla Genética y Biotecnologia
    Inventors: Enrique Rosendo Pérez Cruz, Lázaro Hernández Garcia, Duniesky Martínez García, Luis Enrique Trujillo Toledo, Carmen Menéndez Rodríguez, Alina Sobrino Legón, Ricardo Ramírez Ibañez, Gumersindo Feijoo Costa, Juan Manuel Lema Rodicio
  • Publication number: 20190085364
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an industrial scale method to obtain 1-kestose by the use of a recombinant fructosyltransferase (FTF), isolated from Festuca arundinacea, expressed constitutively in a non-saccharolytic yeast. In this invention, the recombinant FTF type sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SSTrec) is produced constitutively, stable and at high yield, both in the culture supernatant and in intact cells of the host Pichia pastoris. Hence, the invention additionally provides a method for 1-SST production at industrial scale. The recombinant enzyme is then used for mass production of short-chain fructooligosaccharides (FOS), specifically 1-kestose, from sucrose. The method of the present invention establishes conditions that allow conversion rates where the synthesized FOS constitute above 55% (w/w) of the total sugars in the reaction mixture and the 1-kestose content reaches values higher than 90% (w/w) of the total FOS fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Enrique Rosendo Pérez Cruz, Lázaro Hernández Garcia, Duniesky Martínez García, Luis Enrique Trujillo Toledo, Carmen Menéndez Rodríguez, Alina Sobrino Legón, Ricardo Ramírez Ibañez, Gumersindo Feijoo Costa, Juan Manuel Lema Rodicio
  • Patent number: 10131927
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an industrial scale method to obtain 1-kestose by the use of a recombinant fructosyltransferase (FTF), isolated from Festuca arundinacea, expressed constitutively in a non-saccharolytic yeast. In this invention, the recombinant FTF type sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SSTrec) is produced constitutively, stable and at high yield, both in the culture supernatant and in intact cells of the host Pichia pastoris. Hence, the invention additionally provides a method for 1-SST production at industrial scale. The recombinant enzyme is then used for mass production of short-chain fructooligosaccharides (FOS), specifically 1-kestose, from sucrose. The method of the present invention establishes conditions that allow conversion rates where the synthesized FOS constitute above 55% (w/w) of the total sugars in the reaction mixture and the 1-kestose content reaches values higher than 90% (w/w) of the total FOS fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: CENTRO DE INGENIERIA GENÉTICA Y BIOTECNOLOGIA
    Inventors: Enrique Rosendo Pérez Cruz, Lázaro Hernández García, Duniesky Martínez García, Luis Enrique Trujillo Toledo, Carmen Menéndez Rodríguez, Alina Sobrino Legón, Ricardo Ramírez Ibañez, Gumersindo Feijoo Costa, Juan Manuel Lema Rodicio
  • Patent number: 9725345
    Abstract: Integrated methanogenic anaerobic reactor and membrane bioreactor, and method for eliminating organic matter and nitrogen in urban or industrial wastewater, preferably with COD concentrations between 150 and 5000 mg/L and where the eliminations of total nitrogen that occur are between 15 and 50 mg/L, at temperatures above 15° C. The wastewater treatment takes place thanks to three stages of treatment: methanogenic anaerobic stage, anoxic stage with biofilms and suspended biomass and aerobic filtration stage with biofilms and suspended biomass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
    Inventors: Juan Manuel Garrido Fernandez, Dagmara Buntner, Alberto Sanchez Sanchez, Juan Manuel Lema Rodicio
  • Publication number: 20150368131
    Abstract: Integrated methanogenic anaerobic reactor and membrane bioreactor, and method for eliminating organic matter and nitrogen in urban or industrial wastewater, preferably with COD concentrations between 150 and 5000 mg/L and where the eliminations of total nitrogen that occur are between 15 and 50 mg/L, at temperatures above 15° C. The wastewater treatment takes place thanks to three stages of treatment: methanogenic anaerobic stage, anoxic stage with biofilms and suspended biomass and aerobic filtration stage with biofilms and suspended biomass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
    Inventors: Juan Manuel GARRIDO FERNANDEZ, Dagmara BUNTNER, Alberto SANCHEZ SANCHEZ, Juan Manuel LEMA RODICIO
  • Publication number: 20150232898
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an industrial scale method to obtain 1-kestose by the use of a recombinant fructosyltransferase (FTF), isolated from Festuca arundinacea, expressed constitutively in a non-saccharolytic yeast. In this invention, the recombinant FTF type sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SSTrec) is produced constitutively, stable and at high yield, both in the culture supernatant and in intact cells of the host Pichia pastoris. Hence, the invention additionally provides a method for 1-SST production at industrial scale. The recombinant enzyme is then used for mass production of short-chain fructooligosaccharides (FOS), specifically 1-kestose, from sucrose. The method of the present invention establishes conditions that allow conversion rates where the synthesized FOS constitute above 55% (w/w) of the total sugars in the reaction mixture and the 1-kestose content reaches values higher than 90% (w/w) of the total FOS fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Enrique Rosendo Pérez Cruz, Lázaro Hernández García, Duniesky Martínez García, Luis Enrique Trujillo Toledo, Carmen Menéndez Rodríguez, Alina Sobrino Legón, Ricardo Ramírez Ibañez, Gumersindo Feijoo Costa, Juan Manuel Lema Rodicio