Patents by Inventor Behnaz Behrouzian

Behnaz Behrouzian has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Ketoreductase enzymes and uses thereof
    Patent number: 7879585
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, method of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chirally pure compounds, and the chirally pure compounds prepared therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorraine Joan Giver, Lisa Marie Newman, Emily Mundorff, Gjalt W. Huisman, Stephane J. Jenne, Jun Zhu, Behnaz Behrouzian, John H. Grate, James Lalonde
  • PRODUCTION OF FATTY ALCOHOLS WITH FATTY ALCOHOL FORMING ACYL-COA REDUCTASES (FAR)
    Publication number: 20110000125
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods of producing fatty alcohols from recombinant host cells comprising genes encoding heterologous fatty acyl-CoA reductase (FAR) enzymes. The disclosure further relates to FAR enzymes and functional fragments thereof derived from marine bacterium and particularly marine gamma proteobacterium such as Marinobacter and Oceanobacter; polynucleotides encoding the FAR enzymes and vectors and host cells comprising the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: CODEXIS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert McDaniel, Behnaz Behrouzian, Louis Clark, Douglas Hattendorf, Fernando Valle
  • ENGINEERED BIOSYNTHESIS OF FATTY ALCOHOLS
    Publication number: 20100298612
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a process for the production of long chain fatty alcohols by recombinant host cells expressing one or more heterologous carboxylic acid reductase enzymes useful for the conversion of fatty acids, and derivatives thereof, to long chain fatty alcohols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: CODEXIS, INC.
    Inventors: Behnaz Behrouzian, Robert McDaniel, Xiyun Zhang, Louis Clark
  • PENICILLIN-G ACYLASES
    Publication number: 20100143968
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to engineered penicillin G acylase (PGA) enzymes having improved properties, polynucleotides encoding such enzymes, compositions including the enzymes, and methods of using the enzymes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: CODEXIS, INC.
    Inventors: BEHNAZ BEHROUZIAN, ANKE KREBBER, EMILY MUNDORFF
  • COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING STEREOISOMERICALLY PURE STATINS AND SYNTHETIC INTERMEDIATES THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20080248539
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, method of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chirally pure compounds, and the chirally pure compounds prepared therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorraine Joan Giver, Lisa Marie Newman, Emily Mundorff, Gjalt W. Huisman, Stephane J. Jenne, Jun Zhu, Behnaz Behrouzian, John H. Grate, James Lalonde