Patents Examined by Charles L. Patternson
  • Patent number: 5114852
    Abstract: The present invention provides a chimeric enzyme gene which codes for a monooxygenase having both monooxygenase activity derived from cytochrome P-450 and reducing power supplying ability derived from NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase.The present invention further provides a yeast expression plasmid which contains said chimeric enzyme gene and expresses said monooxygenase gene; a transformed yeast strain which carries said yeast expression plasmid; a monooxygenase which has both the monooxygenase activity and the reducing power supplying ability as mentioned above; and a process for producing said monooxygenase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Assignee: Director-General of Agency of Industrial Science & Technology
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Yabusaki, Hiroko Murakami, Toshiyuki Sakai, Megumi Shibata, Hideo Ohkawa