Patents by Inventor Nancy Strathy

Nancy Strathy 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).

  • Cloning of the biosynthetic pathway for chlortetracycline and tetracycline formation and cosmids useful therein
    Patent number: 5866410
    Abstract: The present invention describes a purified and isolated nucleic acid molecule which encodes for the biosynthetic pathway of tetracycline, chlortetracycline or an analogue thereof. The invention relates to the isolation and cloning of the nucleic acid molecule in an isolated fragment from Streptomyces aureofaciens and the expression of the biosynthetic gene in a heterologous host such as Streptomyces lividans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: American Cyanamid Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Ryan, Jason A. Lotvin, Nancy Strathy, Susan E. Fantini
  • Cloning of the biosynthetic pathway for chlortetracycline and tetracycline formation and cosmids useful therein
    Patent number: 5589385
    Abstract: The present invention describes a purified and isolated nucleic acid molecule which encodes for the biosynthetic pathway of tetracycline, chlortetracycline or an analogue thereof. The invention relates to the isolation and cloning of the nucleic acid molecule in an isolated fragment from Streptomyces aureofaciens and the expression of the biosynthetic gene in a heterologous host such as Streptomyces lividans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: American Cyanamid Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Ryan, Jason A. Lotvin, Nancy Strathy, Susan E. Fantini