Abstract: Glycerol-free enzyme formulations are described. In some embodiments, a glycerol-free enzyme formulation is stabilized by high salt concentration. The glycerol free enzyme formulation may comprise a reverse transcriptase enzyme.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 23, 2022
Date of Patent:
June 25, 2024
Assignee:
Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics, UAB
Inventors:
Juozas Siurkus, Darius Kavaliauskas, Daumantas Matulis, Lina Baranauskiene
Abstract: A process for efficient purification of magnesium lactate from fermentation broths derived from non-homogeneous feedstocks that contain soluble and insoluble impurities is provided. The fermentation broth, having high amounts of impurities and containing magnesium lactate in a soluble form, is separated from insoluble impurities, concentrated to particularly high concentrations of the magnesium lactate at elevated temperatures, and subsequently cooled by gradual and controlled cooling such that magnesium lactate crystals of high purity are formed.
Abstract: In various aspects and embodiments, the invention provides microbial cells and methods for producing advanced glycosylation products from lower glycosylated intermediates. The microbial cell expresses one or more UDP-dependent glycosyl transferase enzymes in the cytoplasm, for glycosylation of the intermediates. When incubating the microbial strain with a plant extract or fraction thereof comprising the intermediates, these glycosylated intermediates are available for further glycosylation by the cell, and the advanced glycosylation products can be recovered from the media and/or microbial cells.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 9, 2021
Date of Patent:
June 18, 2024
Assignee:
Manus Bio Inc.
Inventors:
Ajikumar Parayil Kumaran, Christine Nicole S. Santos, Jason Eric Donald, Mary Elizabeth Fowler, Ryan N. Philippe, Christopher Scott Frei, Aaron Love
Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions such as cleaning compositions comprising a mix of enzymes, in particular a dispersin and a protease. The invention further relates to use of compositions comprising such enzymes in cleaning processes.
Abstract: A method of producing lipids, containing the steps of: culturing an alga in which expression of a gene encoding a protein containing a thioredoxin domain and a thioredoxin reductase domain is enhanced, and producing fatty acids or lipids containing the same as components.
Abstract: The present invention provides process for treating crop kernels, comprising the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of GH62 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity or a GH43 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 12, 2023
Date of Patent:
May 21, 2024
Assignee:
NOVOZYMES A/S
Inventors:
James Lavigne, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Chee-Leong Soong, Randall Scott Deinhammer, Zhen Long, Yi Cao, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yu Zhang, Brian R. Scott
Abstract: Provided are an enzyme complex for decomposing polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a method for decomposing waste plastic using the enzyme complex, and a manufacturing method of the enzyme complex. According to the present disclosure, since the enzyme complex is a complex form of Ideonella sakaiensis-derived PETase and Candida Antarctica-derived lipase (CALB) by dockerin-cohesin binding and is simultaneously applicable to a substrate to be decomposed, it is possible to exhibit a synergistic effect on the decomposition of polyethylene terephthalate. In addition, it is possible to provide a stable enzyme complex of decomposing polyethylene terephthalate by providing a mini-scaffolding protein obtained by miniaturizing cellulosome as a scaffolding protein.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 20, 2022
Date of Patent:
May 14, 2024
Assignee:
Korea University Research and Business Foundation
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
Abstract: The invention provides recombinant algal mutants that have a genetic modification to a gene or nucleic acid sequence encoding a WD40 repeat containing protein or domain. The genetic modification of one or more nucleic acid sequences encoding a WD40 repeat containing protein or domain results in a mutant organism with increased lipid productivity and/or higher biomass productivity (as measured by total organic carbon). The genetic modification can be a gene attenuation or functional deletion. The lipid products of these mutants can be utilized as biofuels or for other specialty chemical products. Methods of making and using the recombinant algal mutants and methods of producing lipids are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 4, 2021
Date of Patent:
May 7, 2024
Assignee:
Viridos, Inc.
Inventors:
Saheed Imam, Eric R. Moellering, Luke Peach, William F. Lambert, Kathleen Kwok
Abstract: Recombinant microorganisms, plants, and plant cells are disclosed that have been engineered to have reduced levels or activity of one or more alcohol dehydrogenases or aldehyde reductases thereby increasing the production of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids and/or benzylisoquinoline alkaloid precursors.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 18, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 23, 2024
Assignee:
RIVER STONE BIOTECH, INC.
Inventors:
Esben Halkjaer Hansen, Markus Schwab, Philipp Berninger, Fanny Delgrange, Franziska Grassinger
Abstract: The present invention relates to processes of recovering oil after liquefaction and/or from thin stillage and/or syrup/evaporated centrate from a fermentation product production process by adding a thermostable protease to the whole stillage, thin stillage and/or syrup.
Abstract: Provided herein compositions and methods for producing isoprenoids, including squalene. In certain aspects and embodiments provided are genetically converted yeast and uses therefore. In some aspects and embodiments, the genetically converted yeast produce isoprenoids, preferably squalene. Also are provided methods of producing squalene using a genetically converted yeast or a non-genetically converted yeast. The invention also provides squalene produced by genetically converted yeast or non-genetically converted yeast.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 9, 2017
Date of Patent:
April 9, 2024
Assignee:
NUCELIS LLC
Inventors:
Keith A. Walker, Mark E. Knuth, Noel M. Fong, Peter R. Beetham
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a protein hydrolysate using a polypeptide having endopeptidase activity and a polypeptide having carboxypeptidase activity and the use of these enzymes for hydrolysing a protein substrate. In addition, the present invention relates to polypeptides having carboxypeptidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 10, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 2, 2024
Assignee:
Novozymes A/S
Inventors:
Hanne Vang Hendriksen, Gitte Budolfsen Lynglev, Henrik Frisner, Ciu Liu, Ye Liu, Eduardo Antonio Della Pia, Hans Peter Heldt-Hansen, Kenneth Jensen, Wei Peng, Ming Li
Abstract: Systems and methods are described for processing a plant material, such as Cannabis and/or hemp. An example method includes: providing a slurry of plant material; providing an inert gas; adding the slurry and the inert gas to a tank; applying heat and pressure to the slurry inside the tank to generate a processed plant material; removing the processed plant material from the tank; and drying the processed plant material in a dryer to produce a dried product comprising cannabidiol (CBD).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 21, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 2, 2024
Assignee:
E. & J. Gallo Winery
Inventors:
Jorge Ortiz, Nathan Keeley, Dan Burgess
Abstract: This invention provides a range of translatable polynucleotide and oligomer molecules for expressing a human phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH), or a fragment thereof having PAH activity. The polynucleotide and oligomer molecules are expressible to provide the human PAH or a fragment thereof having PAH activity. The molecules can be used as active agents to express an active polypeptide or protein in cells or subjects. The agents can be used in methods for ameliorating, preventing, delaying onset, or treating a disease or condition associated with phenylketonuria, decreased metabolism of phenylalanine, or increased levels of phenylalanine in a subject.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 31, 2018
Date of Patent:
March 26, 2024
Assignee:
Arcturus Therapeutics, Inc.
Inventors:
Kiyoshi Tachikawa, Carlos Gustavo Perez-Garcia, Padmanabh Chivukula, Hari Bhaskaran, Sean Christopher Daugherty, Christian W. Cobaugh
Abstract: The present invention relates to processes of recovering oil after liquefaction and/or from thin stillage and/or syrup/evaporated centrate from a fermentation product production process by adding a thermostable protease to the whole stillage, thin stillage and/or syrup.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 22, 2022
Date of Patent:
March 26, 2024
Assignee:
NOVOZYMES A/S
Inventors:
Nathaniel Edward Kreel, Joseph Mark Jump
Abstract: The application provides compositions including engineered reverse transcriptases with at least one altered reverse-transcriptase related activity. The engineered reverse transcriptases or reverse transcription enzymes unexpectedly exhibit one or more altered reverse transcriptase related activities such as but not limited to altered template switching efficiency, altered transcription efficiency or both.
Abstract: Culturing S. glucoliberatum PABB004 under conditions effective for the S. glucoliberatum PABB004 to secrete simple sugars into culture medium. In one or more embodiments, the conditions include a pH of 6.0 to 8.5. In some cases, the culture can include a second organism. A co-culture includes S. glucoliberatum PABB004 and a second organism, wherein the co-culture has a pH of 6.0 or greater. In one or more embodiments, the second organism is selected to produce a product of interest such as, for example, ethanol.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 21, 2022
Date of Patent:
March 19, 2024
Assignee:
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Inventors:
Brett M. Barney, Evelyn Vogel, Natalia Calixto Mancipe
Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an alkaline phosphatase (ALP), the method including a step of: culturing an Aspergillus transformant capable of producing the ALP.