Abstract: A process of producing heavy chain peptide and/or light chain peptide of recombinant Factor VIII protein includes using the Pichia pastoris expression system. A process of producing a functional recombinant Factor VIII protein by reconstituting the Heavy chain and Light chain produced using said Pichia pastoris expression system. The said functional recombinant Factor VIII protein shows improved activity and therefore is used in the management of haemophilia.
Abstract: The present invention provides improved P450-BM3 variants with improved activity. In some embodiments, the P450-BM3 variants exhibit improved activity over a wide range of substrates.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 8, 2015
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2017
Assignee:
Codexis, Inc.
Inventors:
Robert Osborne, Vesna Mitchell, Khin Yu Naing Htwe, Xiyun Zhang, Erika M. Milczek, Jeffrey C. Moore
Abstract: The present invention is directed towards genetic modification of native gene encoding for sucrose isomerase and isomaltulose synthase to substantially increase the expression level of these enzymes and use of said enzymes in a process to produce rare disaccharides such as isomaltulose and trehalulose. Also disclosed in the present invention is expression constructs comprising the modified genes and a host cells to express the same.
Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having peroxygenase 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:
December 6, 2016
Date of Patent:
June 6, 2017
Assignee:
Novozymes A/S
Inventors:
Sara Landvik, Lars Henrik Oestergaard, Lisbeth Kalum
Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the production of xylosyl-xylitol oligomers, and more specifically to biological methods for producing xylosyl-xylitol oligomers in host cells.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 14, 2016
Date of Patent:
June 6, 2017
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California
Abstract: Recombinant cell expressing at least one heterologous alkane exporter protein comprising an ATP binding cassette (ABC), wherein the ABC comprises of an amino acid consensus sequence as set forth in SEQ ID No. 1. The use and method of producing or increasing resistance to biofuels with the same.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides modified proteins that are capable of being cleaved by the protease OmpT1. The proteins can be modified in an exposed surface motif to incorporate OmpT1 cleavage sites. Also provided are nucleic acids encoding the modified proteins, bacterial cells that express the modified proteins, and cell free synthesis systems containing modified RF1. The disclosure further provides methods for reducing the deleterious activity of a modified protein in a cell free synthesis system by contacting the modified protein with OmpT1. Also provided are methods for reducing RF1 competition at an amber codon in the cell free synthesis system, and methods for expressing a protein in the cell free synthesis system. The modified proteins of the invention can be used to increase the yield of proteins having non-natural amino acids incorporated at an amber codon.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 8, 2013
Date of Patent:
May 16, 2017
Assignee:
Sutro Biopharma, Inc.
Inventors:
Christopher D. Thanos, Christopher J. Murray, Junhao Yang, Heather Stephenson
Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having catalase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 19, 2012
Date of Patent:
May 2, 2017
Assignee:
Novozymes Inc.
Inventors:
Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Yu Zhang, Lan Tang
Abstract: Saccharomyces cerevisiae having acid resistance at a pH of about 2.0 to about 5.0, a method of preparing the Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and a method of producing lactate.
Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having peroxygenase 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. A polynucleotide encoding a peroxygenase was isolated from Myceliophthora fergusii.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 8, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 4, 2017
Assignee:
Novozymes A/S
Inventors:
Sara Landvik, Lars Henrik Oestergaard, Lisbeth Kalum
Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding modules and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding modules. 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, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding modules.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing gelatin comprising a step of incubating a material comprising collagen with an enzyme composition comprising an acid protease which has at least 70% identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, and preparing the gelatin. The invention also relates to gelatin obtained by a process as disclosed herein.
Abstract: The present invention relates to microorganisms of Escherichia coli having enhanced L-tryptophan productivity and to a method for producing L-tryptophan using the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to an Escherichia coli variant in which repression and attenuation control of the tryptophan operon is released and accumulation of anthranilate is reduced and thereby enhancing L-tryptophan productivity. The present invention also relates to a method for producing L-tryptophan using the Escherichia coli variant.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 10, 2013
Date of Patent:
March 7, 2017
Assignee:
CJ Cheiljedang Corporation
Inventors:
Kwang Ho Lee, Hye Min Park, Hyo Hyoung Lee, Young Bin Hwang, Seok Myung Lee
Abstract: The present application relates to a strain expressing the FrsA protein, and a method for producing ethanol using the same. The FrsA of the present application has a high PDC enzyme activity for a pyruvate, which is a substrate, and thus can be used in a process for producing ethanol. In addition, an FrsA mutant having improved stability in a host cell can be more effective in producing ethanol due to the increase in stability when the FrsA mutant is overexpressed together with IIAGlc, compared with when using conventional Zymomonas mobilis-derived PDC.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 18, 2013
Date of Patent:
February 14, 2017
Assignee:
SOGANG UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Inventors:
Kyung-Jo Lee, Yu Ra Kim, Jung Kee Lee, Sun-Shin Cha, Kyu-Ho Lee
Abstract: The present invention relates to a microorganism having an acetyl CoA biosynthesis pathway and a butyryl CoA biosynthesis pathway; the microorganism being a recombinant microorganism having an increased ability to produce butanol, wherein a pathway for converting acetyl CoA into acetate is suppressed, and a pathway for converting acetate into acetyl CoA and a pathway for converting butyryl CoA into butanol are promoted. Also, the present invention concerns a method for producing butanol by using the recombinant microorganism.
Abstract: Described is a method for the production of 3-hydroxy-3-methylbutyric acid by enzyme-catalyzed covalent bond formation between the carbon atom of the oxo group of acetone and the methyl group of a compound which provides an activated acetyl group. Also described are recombinant organisms which produce 3-hydroxy-3-methylbutyric acid, and related compositions and methods.
Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having protease 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:
December 19, 2013
Date of Patent:
January 24, 2017
Assignee:
NOVOZYMES A/S
Inventors:
Astrid Benie, Peter Rahbek Oestergaard, Morten Gjermansen, Tine Hoff
Abstract: Healthcare costs are a significant worldwide, with many patients being denied medications because of their high prices. One approach to addressing this problem involves the biosynthesis of chiral drug intermediates, an environmentally friendly solution that can be used to generate pharmaceuticals at much lower costs than conventional techniques. In this context, embodiments of the invention comprise methods and materials designed to allow microorganisms to biosynthesize the nonnatural amino acid L-homoalanine. As is known in the art, L-homoalanine is a chiral precursor of a variety of pharmaceutically valuable compounds including the anticonvulsant medications levetiracetam (sold under the trade name Keppra®) and brivaracetam, as well as ethambutol, a bacteriostatic antimycobacterial drug used to treat tuberculosis. Consequently, embodiments of the invention can be used in low cost, environmentally friendly processes to generate these and other valuable compounds.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 9, 2015
Date of Patent:
January 24, 2017
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California
Inventors:
James C. Liao, Kechun Zhang, Kwang Myung Cho