Patents Represented by Attorney Codexis, Inc.
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Patent number: 8329438Abstract: The disclosure relates to engineered enone reductase polypeptides having improved properties, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, related vectors, host cells, and methods for making the engineered enone reductase polypeptides. The disclosure also provides methods of using the engineered enone reductase polypeptides for chemical transformations.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Savile, Vesna Mitchell, Xiyun Zhang, Gjalt Huisman
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Patent number: 8309328Abstract: The present application provides genetically modified fungal organisms that produce enzyme mixtures exhibiting enhanced hydrolysis of cellulosic material to glucose, enzyme mixtures produced by the genetically modified fungal organisms, and processes for producing glucose from cellulose using such enzyme mixtures.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Ish Kumar Dhawan, Dipnath Baidyaroy, Andrew Shaw, Oleh Tanchak, Christopher Hill, Chengsong Liu, Amala Chokshi, Brian R. Scott
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Patent number: 8293507Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polypeptides having transaminase activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods of using the polypeptides.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Savile, Emily Mundorff, Jeffrey C. Moore, Paul N. Devine, Jacob M. Janey
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Patent number: 8288131Abstract: The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme including the capability of stereo specifically reducing (R)-2-methylpentanal to (R)-2-methylpentanol. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to produce (R)-2-methylpentanol and related compounds.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignees: Codexis, Inc., Pfizer, Inc.Inventors: Rama Voladri, Owen Gooding, Stephan Jenne, Emily Mundorff
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Patent number: 8288141Abstract: The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. The engineered ketoreductase polypeptides are optimized for catalyzing the conversion of N-methyl-3-keto-3-(2-thienyl)-1-propanamine to (S)—N-methyl-3-hydroxy-3-(2-thienyl)-1-propanamine.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Savile, John M. Gruber, Emily Mundorff, Gjalt Huisman, Steven James Collier
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Patent number: 8273554Abstract: The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme including the capability of reducing 5-((4S)-2-oxo-4-phenyl(1,3-oxazolidin-3-yl))-1-(4-fluorophenyl)pentane-1,5-dione to (4S)-3-[(5S)-5-(4-fluorophenyl)-5-hydroxypentanoyl]-4-phenyl-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize the intermediate (4S)-3-[(5S)-5-(4-fluorophenyl)-5-hydroxypentanoyl]-4-phenyl-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one in a process for making Ezetimibe.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Emily Mundorff, Erik De Vries
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Patent number: 8273547Abstract: The present disclosure provides ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, method of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chirally pure compounds, and the chirally pure compounds prepared therewith.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Lorraine Joan Giver, Lisa Marie Newman, Emily Mundorff, Gjalt W. Huisman, Stephane J. Jenne, Jun Zhu, Behnaz Behrouzian, John H. Grate, James Lalonde
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Patent number: 8257952Abstract: The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Onorato Campopiano, Emily Mundorff, Birthe Borup, Rama Voladri
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Patent number: 8252554Abstract: The present invention relates to novel halohydrin dehalogenase polypeptides and the polynucleotides that encode them. These polypeptides are useful in the production of 4-substituted-3-butyric acid derivatives and vicinal cyano, hydroxyl substituted carboxylic acid esters. The invention also provides related vectors, host cells and methods.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: S. Christopher Davis, Lisa Marie Newman, Vesna Gavrilovic, Gjalt W. Huisman, Richard John Fox, Emily C. Mundorff
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Patent number: 8247192Abstract: The present disclosure relates to engineered penicillin G acylase (PGA) enzymes having improved properties, polynucleotides encoding such enzymes, compositions including the enzymes, and methods of using the enzymes.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Behnaz Behrouzian, Anke Krebber, Emily Mundorff
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Patent number: 8236551Abstract: The present application provides genetically modified fungal organisms that produce enzyme mixtures exhibiting enhanced hydrolysis of cellulosic material to glucose, enzyme mixtures produced by the genetically modified fungal organisms, and processes for producing glucose from cellulose using such enzyme mixtures.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Ish Kumar Dhawan, Dipnath Baidyaroy, Andrew Shaw, Oleh Tanchak, Christopher Hill, Chengsong Liu, Amala Chokshi, Brian R. Scott
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Patent number: 8227229Abstract: The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize chiral compounds.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignees: Codexis, Inc., Pfizer, Inc.Inventors: Jack Liang, Stephane J. Jenne, Emily Mundorff, Rama Voladri, James LaLonde, Gjalt W. Huisman
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Patent number: 8187856Abstract: The present disclosure provides engineered halohydrin dehalogenase (HHDH) polypeptides having improved enzyme properties as compared to the wild-type HHDH enzyme HheC and other reference engineered HHDH polypeptides. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered HHDH enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered HHDH enzymes, and methods of using the engineered HHDH enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds including chiral epoxides and chiral alcohols.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Erik De Vries, Louis Clark, Scott McVicar, Erika Segraves, Shiwei Song, Kheng Lin Tan
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Patent number: 8178333Abstract: The present disclosure provides monoamine oxidase enzymes and methods of their use in biocatalytic processes for the preparation of substantially enantiomerically pure heterobicyclic compounds of the following structural formulas, wherein A, M, M?, and R5 are as described herein.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Mijts, Sheela Muley, Jack Liang, Lisa M. Newman, Xiyun Zhang, James Lalonde, Michael D. Clay, Jun Zhu, John M. Gruber, Jeffrey Colbeck, John D. Munger, Jr., Jagadeesh Mavinahalli, Roger Sheldon