Patents by Inventor Bernd Eikmanns

Bernd Eikmanns 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).

  • Nucleic acid encoding pyruvate carboxylase from coryneform glutamicum
    Patent number: 7267967
    Abstract: A pyruvate carboxylase gene having SEQ ID NO:1 as well as an amino acid sequence having SEQ ID NO:2 expressed by the pyruvate carboxylate gene are disclosed. Also disclosed is a method for microbial production of amino acids of the aspartate and/or glutamate family in which the pyruvate carboxylase activity is increased by genetically changing the pyruvate carboxylase gene having SEQ ID NO:1 through expression of a microorganism which produces the corresponding amino acid having SEQ ID NO:2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Eikmanns, Petra Peters-Wendisch, Hermann Sahm
  • Method for microbial production of amino acids of the spartate and/or glutamate family and agents which can be used in said method
    Publication number: 20070202571
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for microbially producing L-amino acids of aspartate and/or glutamate families which comprises the step of: culturing a strain of Escherichia coli that produces said L-amino acids in a medium suitable for the production of an L-amino acid, whereby said Escherichia coli strain is transformed with a gene construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding an enzyme with pyruvate carboxylase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Bernd Eikmanns, Petra Peters-Wendisch, Hermann Sahm
  • Process for the preparation of L-amino acids by fermentation and nucleotide sequences coding for the accDA gene
    Publication number: 20020142405
    Abstract: The invention relates to nucleotide sequences coding for the accDA gene and to a process for the preparation of L-amino acids, especially L-lysine, by fermentation using corynebacteria in which the accDA gene is amplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Yvonne Tilg, Bernd Eikmanns, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Bettina Mockel
  • Process for the fermentative preparation of L-amino acids using coryneform bacteria
    Patent number: 6379934
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for the fermentative preparation of L-amino acids using coryneform bacteria, in which the subunit carrying the biotin-carboxyl carrier protein domain and the biotin-carboxylase domain of the nucleotide sequence encoding the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase (accBC gene) is amplified, in particular is overexpressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Yvonne Tilg, Bernd Eikmanns, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Bettina Mockel, Walter Pfefferle
  • Process for the preparation of L-amino acids by fermentation and nucleotide sequences coding for the accDA gene
    Patent number: 6361986
    Abstract: The invention relates to nucleotide sequences coding for the accDA gene and to a process for the preparation of L-amino acids, especially L-lysine, by fermentation using corynebacteria in which the accDA gene is amplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Degussa-Huls Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Yvonne Tilg, Bernd Eikmanns, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Bettina Möckel