Patents Assigned to Agricultural & Food Research Council
  • Recombinant DNA molecules encoding aminopeptidase enzymes and their use in the preparation of vaccines against helminth infections
    Publication number: 20080145379
    Abstract: The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules containing nucleotide sequences encoding helminth aminopeptidase enzymes, and antigenic fragments and functionally-equivalent variants thereof, their use in the preparation of vaccines, for use against helminth parasites, and synthetic polypeptides encoded by them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: The Agricultural and Food Research Council
    Inventors: Margaret Graham, Trevor Stanley Smith, Edward Albert Munn, David Patrick Knox, Joanna Jane Oliver, Susan Elizabeth Newton
  • Viral products
    Patent number: 6083684
    Abstract: Bacteriophages of food-contaminating or pathogenic bacteria or the lysins thereof are used to kill such bacteria. Examples include lysins from bacteriophages of Listeria monocytogenes and Clostridium tyrobutyricum. Tests for bacterial contamination can be made specific for specific bacteria by using the appropriate bacteriophage or lysin thereof and determining whether cells are lysed thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Agricultural & Food Research Council
    Inventor: Michael John Gasson
  • Viral products
    Patent number: 5763251
    Abstract: Bacteriophages of food-contaminating or pathogenic bacteria or the lysins thereof are used to kill such bacteria. Examples include lysins from bacteriophages of Listeria monocytogenes and Clostridium tyrobutyricum.Tests for bacterial contamination can be made specific for specific bacteria by using the appropriate bacteriophage or lysin thereof and determining whether cells are lysed thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Agricultural & Food Research Council
    Inventor: Michael John Gasson
  • Method of making cheese using viral enzymes
    Patent number: 5360617
    Abstract: The lysin from a Lactococcus (preferably prolate-headed) bacteriophage is used to lyse bacterial starter cultures during cheese-making. Such bacteriophage include .phi.vML3. In addition, the .phi.vML3 lysin has been characterized and a coding sequence for it has been cloned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Agricultural and Food Research Council
    Inventor: Michael J. Gasson
  • Methods of emulsification with peptide emulsifiers
    Patent number: 5330682
    Abstract: Polypeptides which consist substantially of alpha-helix-forming amino acid sequences are useful as emulsifiers, if the helix has at least one hydrophilic axial domain and at least one hydrophobic axial domain such that the helix can adapt a log-in-water orientation at a fat-water interface. The hydrophobic domain may occupy 80.degree.-280.degree. of the circle defined by the helix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Agricultural & Food Research Council
    Inventors: Christopher J. Brock, Michael B. Enser
  • In vitro embryo culture technique
    Patent number: 5011780
    Abstract: Avian embryos may be cultured in vitro up to blastoderm formation, during embryonic morphogenesis and/or during embryonic growth to hatch. The invention may have applications not only in the genetic engineering of poultry, but also in the investigation of fundamental mechanisms of avian development and in the study of deleterious traits. Moreover, it may afford a desirable alternative to surgical intervention in the laying hen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: The Agricultural and Food Research Council
    Inventor: Margaret M. Perry
  • Method for improving the shelf life of a foodstuff
    Patent number: 4837037
    Abstract: A method of treating an edible tissue to improve its shelf life which comprises contacting the tissue with a liquid treating agent comprising an inert carrier, preferably an ester of alginic acid, and a food grade organic acid, preferably acetic acid. In a particular method according to the invention the tissue is treated with a second agent comprising alginic acid to form a material capable of encapsulating the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Agricultural & Food Research Council
    Inventors: Brian H. Kirsop, Timothy F. Brocklehurst