Patents by Inventor Roland Prielhofer

Roland Prielhofer 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: 11976284
    Abstract: A method of producing a protein of interest (POI) by culturing a recombinant eukaryotic cell line comprising an expression construct comprising a regulatable promoter and a nucleic acid molecule encoding a POI under the transcriptional control of said promoter, comprising the steps a) cultivating the cell line with a basal carbon source repressing the promoter, b) cultivating the cell line with a limited amount of a supplemental carbon source de-repressing the promoter to induce production of the POI at a transcription rate of at least 15% as compared to the native pGAP promoter, and c) producing and recovering the POI; and further an isolated regulatable promoter and a respective expression system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LONZA LTD
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Michael Maurer, Roland Prielhofer, Joachim Klein, Jana Wenger
  • Publication number: 20220259608
    Abstract: A method of producing a protein of interest (POI) by culturing a recombinant eukaryotic cell line comprising an expression construct comprising a regulatable promoter and a nucleic acid molecule encoding a POI under the transcriptional control of said promoter, comprising the steps a) cultivating the cell line with a basal carbon source repressing the promoter, b) cultivating the cell line with a limited amount of a supplemental carbon source de-repressing the promoter to induce production of the POI at a transcription rate of at least 15% as compared to the native pGAP promoter, and c) producing and recovering the POI; and further an isolated regulatable promoter and a respective expression system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Diethard MATTANOVICH, Brigitte GASSER, Michael MAURER, Roland PRIELHOFER, Joachim KLEIN, Jana WENGER
  • Patent number: 11401523
    Abstract: A method of producing a protein of interest (POI) by culturing a recombinant eukaryotic cell line comprising an expression construct comprising a regulatable promoter and a nucleic acid molecule encoding a POI under the transcriptional control of said promoter, comprising the steps a) cultivating the cell line with a basal carbon source repressing the promoter, b) cultivating the cell line with a limited amount of a supplemental carbon source de-repressing the promoter to induce production of the POI at a transcription rate of at least 15% as compared to the native pGAP promoter, and c) producing and recovering the POI; and further an isolated regulatable promoter and a respective expression system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: LONZA LTD
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Michael Maurer, Roland Prielhofer, Joachim Klein, Jana Wenger
  • Patent number: 11168117
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter, which is a native sequence of Pichia pastoris comprising the nucleic acid sequence of pCS1 of SEQ ID 1, or a functionally active variant thereof which is a size variant, a mutant or hybrid of SEQ ID 1, or a combination thereof, expression constructs and recombinant host cells comprising the promoter, and a method of producing a protein of interest under the control of the promoter. It further relates to a method to identify a constitutive promoter from eukaryotic cells, and an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter which when operatively linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein of interest directs the expression thereof in a host cell at an expression level that is higher than under control of the native pGAP promoter at high and low growth rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: LONZA LTD
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Roland Prielhofer
  • Publication number: 20200347391
    Abstract: An isolated and/or artificial pG1-x promoter, which is a functional variant of the carbon source regulatable pG1 promoter of Pichia pastoris identified by SEQ ID 1, which pG1-x promoter consists of or comprises at least a part of SEQ ID 1 with a length of at least 293 bp, characterized by the following promoter regions: a) at least one core regulatory region comprising the nucleotide sequences SEQ ID 2 and SEQ ID 3; and b) a non-core regulatory region, which is any region within the pG1-x promoter sequence other than the core regulatory region; wherein the pG1-x promoter comprises at least one mutation in any of the promoter regions and a sequence identity of at least 80% in SEQ ID 2 and SEQ ID 3, and a sequence identity of at least 50% in any region other than SEQ ID 2 or SEQ ID 3; and further wherein the pG1-x promoter is characterized by the same or an increased promoter strength and induction ratio as compared to the pG1 promoter, wherein the promoter strength is at least 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Diethard MATTANOVICH, Brigitte GASSER, Roland PRIELHOFER
  • Patent number: 10752907
    Abstract: An isolated and/or artificial pG1-x promoter, which is a functional variant of the carbon source regulatable pG1 promoter of Pichia pastoris identified by SEQ ID 1, which pG1-x promoter consists of or comprises at least a part of SEQ ID 1 with a length of at least 293 bp, characterized by the following promoter regions: a) at least one core regulatory region comprising the nucleotide sequences SEQ ID 2 and SEQ ID 3; and b) a non-core regulatory region, which is any region within the pG1-x promoter sequence other than the core regulatory region; wherein the pG1-x promoter comprises at least one mutation in any of the promoter regions and a sequence identity of at least 80% in SEQ ID 2 and SEQ ID 3, and a sequence identity of at least 50% in any region other than SEQ ID 2 or SEQ ID 3; and further wherein the pG1-x promoter is characterized by the same or an increased promoter strength and induction ratio as compared to the pG1 promoter, wherein the promoter strength is at least 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LONZA LTD
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Roland Prielhofer
  • Publication number: 20190337998
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter, which is a native sequence of Pichia pastoris comprising the nucleic acid sequence of pCS1 of SEQ ID 1, or a functionally active variant thereof which is a size variant, a mutant or hybrid of SEQ ID 1, or a combination thereof, expression constructs and recombinant host cells comprising the promoter, and a method of producing a protein of interest under the control of the promoter. It further relates to a method to identify a constitutive promoter from eukaryotic cells, and an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter which when operatively linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein of interest directs the expression thereof in a host cell at an expression level that is higher than under control of the native pGAP promoter at high and low growth rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Roland Prielhofer
  • Patent number: 10428123
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter, which is a native sequence of Pichia pastoris comprising the nucleic acid sequence of pCS1 of SEQ ID 1, or a functionally active variant thereof which is a size variant, a mutant or hybrid of SEQ ID 1, or a combination thereof, expression constructs and recombinant host cells comprising the promoter, and a method of producing a protein of interest under the control of the promoter. It further relates to a method to identify a constitutive promoter from eukaryotic cells, and an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter which when operatively linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein of interest directs the expression thereof in a host cell at an expression level that is higher than under control of the native pGAP promoter at high and low growth rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Lonza Ltd
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Roland Prielhofer
  • Publication number: 20190185866
    Abstract: A method of producing a protein of interest (POI) by culturing a recombinant eukaryotic cell line comprising an expression construct comprising a regulatable promoter and a nucleic acid molecule encoding a POI under the transcriptional control of said promoter, comprising the steps a) cultivating the cell line with a basal carbon source repressing the promoter, b) cultivating the cell line with a limited amount of a supplemental carbon source de-repressing the promoter to induce production of the POI at a transcription rate of at least 15% as compared to the native pGAP promoter, and c) producing and recovering the POI; and further an isolated regulatable promoter and a respective expression system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Michael Maurer, Roland Prielhofer, Joachim Klein, Jana Wenger
  • Patent number: 10301634
    Abstract: A method of producing a protein of interest (POI) by culturing a recombinant eukaryotic cell line comprising an expression construct comprising a regulatable promoter and a nucleic acid molecule encoding a POI under the transcriptional control of said promoter, comprising the steps a) cultivating the cell line with a basal carbon source repressing the promoter, b) cultivating the cell line with a limited amount of a supplemental carbon source de-repressing the promoter to induce production of the POI at a transcription rate or at least 15% as compared to the native pGAP promoter, and c) producing and recovering the POI; and further an isolated regulatable promoter and a respective expression system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: LONZA LTD.
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Michael Maurer, Roland Prielhofer, Joachim Klein, Jana Wenger
  • Publication number: 20180223293
    Abstract: An isolated and/or artificial pG1-x promoter, which is a functional variant of the carbon source regulatable pG1 promoter of Pichia pastoris identified by SEQ ID 1, which pG1-x promoter consists of or comprises at least a part of SEQ ID 1 with a length of at least 293 bp, characterized by the following promoter regions: a) at least one core regulatory region comprising the nucleotide sequences SEQ ID 2 and SEQ ID 3; and b) a non-core regulatory region, which is any region within the pG1-x promoter sequence other than the core regulatory region; wherein the pG1-x promoter comprises at least one mutation in any of the promoter regions and a sequence identity of at least 80% in SEQ ID 2 and SEQ ID 3, and a sequence identity of at least 50% in any region other than SEQ ID 2 or SEQ ID 3; and further wherein the pG1-x promoter is characterized by the same or an increased promoter strength and induction ratio as compared to the pG1 promoter, wherein the promoter strength is at least 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Diethard MATTANOVICH, Brigitte GASSER, Roland PRIELHOFER
  • Publication number: 20170037418
    Abstract: A method of producing a protein of interest (POI) by culturing a recombinant eukaryotic cell line comprising an expression construct comprising a regulatable promoter and a nucleic acid molecule encoding a POI under the transcriptional control of said promoter, comprising the steps a) cultivating the cell line with a basal carbon source repressing the promoter, b) cultivating the cell line with a limited amount of a supplemental carbon source de-repressing the promoter to induce production of the POI at a transcription rate or at least 15% as compared to the native pGAP promoter, and c) producing and recovering the POI; and further an isolated regulatable promoter and a respective expression system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: LONZA LTD.
    Inventors: DIETHARD MATTANOVICH, BRIGITTE GASSER, MICHAEL MAURER, ROLAND PRIELHOFER, JOACHIM KLEIN, JANA WENGER
  • Patent number: 9512432
    Abstract: A method of producing a protein of interest (POI) by culturing a recombinant eukaryotic cell line comprising an expression construct comprising a regulatable promoter and a nucleic acid molecule encoding a POI under the transcriptional control of said promoter, comprising the steps a) cultivating the cell line with a basal carbon source repressing the promoter, b) cultivating the cell line with a limited amount of a supplemental carbon source de-repressing the promoter to induce production of the POI at a transcription rate of at least 15% as compared to the native pGAP promoter, and c) producing and recovering the POI; and further an isolated regulatable promoter and a respective expression system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Lonza Ltd.
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Michael Maurer, Roland Prielhofer, Joachim Klein, Jana Wenger
  • Publication number: 20160039891
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter, which is a native sequence of Pichia pastoris comprising the nucleic acid sequence of pCS1 of SEQ ID 1, or a functionally active variant thereof which is a size variant, a mutant or hybrid of SEQ ID 1, or a combination thereof, expression constructs and recombinant host cells comprising the promoter, and a method of producing a protein of interest under the control of the promoter. It further relates to a method to identify a constitutive promoter from eukaryotic cells, and an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter which when operatively linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein of interest directs the expression thereof in a host cell at an expression level that is higher than under control of the native pGAP promoter at high and low growth rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Roland Prielhofer
  • Patent number: 9150870
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter, which is a native sequence of Pichia pastoris comprising the nucleic acid sequence of pCS1 of SEQ ID NO:1, or a functionally active variant thereof which is a size variant, a mutant or hybrid of SEQ ID NO:1, or a combination thereof, expression constructs and recombinant host cells comprising the promoter, and a method of producing a protein of interest under the control of the promoter. It further relates to a method to identify a constitutive promoter from eukaryotic cells, and an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter which when operatively linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein of interest directs the expression thereof in a host cell at an expression level that is higher than under control of the native pGAP promoter at high and low growth rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Lonza Ltd.
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Roland Prielhofer
  • Publication number: 20140274761
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter, which is a native sequence of Pichia pastoris comprising the nucleic acid sequence of pCS1 of SEQ ID NO:1, or a functionally active variant thereof which is a size variant, a mutant or hybrid of SEQ ID NO:1, or a combination thereof, expression constructs and recombinant host cells comprising the promoter, and a method of producing a protein of interest under the control of the promoter. It further relates to a method to identify a constitutive promoter from eukaryotic cells, and an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter which when operatively linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein of interest directs the expression thereof in a host cell at an expression level that is higher than under control of the native pGAP promoter at high and low growth rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: LONZA LTD
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Roland Prielhofer
  • Publication number: 20140242636
    Abstract: A method of producing a protein of interest (POI) by culturing a recombinant eukaryotic cell line comprising an expression construct comprising a regulatable promoter and a nucleic acid molecule encoding a POI under the transcriptional control of said promoter, comprising the steps a) cultivating the cell line with a basal carbon source repressing the promoter, b) cultivating the cell line with a limited amount of a supplemental carbon source de-repressing the promoter to induce production of the POI at a transcription rate of at least 15% as compared to the native pGAP promoter, and c) producing and recovering the POI; and further an isolated regulatable promoter and a respective expression system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: LONZA LTD.
    Inventors: Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser, Michael Maurer, Roland Prielhofer, Joachim Klein, Jana Wenger