Patents Assigned to Shin-Etsu Cio, Inc.
  • DNA segments and methods for increasing polysaccharide production
    Patent number: 5854034
    Abstract: The present invention relates to DNA segments isolated from Sphingomonas sp. and involved in the biosynthetic production of sphingan polysaccharides to increase the production of the polysaccharide in engineered microorganisms. The present invention also relates to methods of engineering strains of Sphingomonas to produce bacteria which are hyperproducers of sphingan, methods of identifying and utilizing DNA fragments useful to enhance production of sphingan in bacteria and the hyperproducer bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignees: Shin-Etsu Cio, Inc., Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Pollock, Motohide Yamazaki, Linda Thorne, Marcia Mikolajczak, Richard W. Armentrout