Patents by Inventor Bettina Mockel

Bettina Mockel 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).

  • Patent number: 7094584
    Abstract: The invention relates to L-lysine-producing strains of corynebacteria with enhanced lysE gene (lysine export carrier gene), in which strains additional genes chosen from the group comprising the dapA gene (dihydrodipicolinate synthase gene), the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), the dapB gene (dihydrodipicolinate reductase gene) and the pyc gene, but especially the dapA gene and the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), are enhanced and, in particular, over-expressed, and to a process for the preparation of L-lysine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Caroline Kreutzer, Stephan Hans, Mechthild Rieping, Bettina Möckel, Walter Pfefferle, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Miroslav Patek
  • Patent number: 7074607
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide comprising a polynucleotide sequence chosen from the group consisting of a) polynucleotide which is identical to the extent of at least 70% to a polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO 2, b) polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which comprises an amino acid sequence which is identical to the extent of at least 70% to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO 2 c) polynucleotide which is complementary to the polynucleotides of a) and b) and d) polynucleotide comprising at least 15 successive nucleotides of the polynucleotide sequence of a), b) or c), and processes for the fermentative preparation of L-amino acid with amplification of the zwa1 gene in the coryneform bacteria employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Bettina Möckel, Walter Pfefferle, Achim Marx, Jörn Kalinowski, Brigitte Bathe, Alfred Pühler
  • Publication number: 20060014259
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of L-amino acids. The process involves fermenting an L-amino acid producing coryneform bacteria in a culture medium, concentrating L-amino acid in the culture medium or in the cells of the bacteria, and isolating the L-amino acid produced. The bacteria has an amplified gene encoding the Zwischenferment protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Kevin Burke, Hermann Sahm, Lothar Eggeling, Bernd Moritz, L. Dunican, Ashling McCormack, Cliona Stapelton, Bettina Mockel, Georg Thierbach, Rita Dunican
  • Patent number: 6987015
    Abstract: An isolated polynucleotide containing a polynucleotide sequence selected from the following group: a) a polynucleotide which is at least 70% identical to a polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide containing the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, b) a polynucleotide which encodes a polypeptide which contains an amino acid sequence which is at least 70% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, c) a polynucleotide which is complementary to the polynucleotides of a) or b), and d) a polynucleotide containing at least 15 successive nucleotides of the polynucleotide sequence of a), b) or c), a process for the fermentative production of L-amino acids with amplification of the pfkA gene and use as primer or hybridisation probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Bettina Möckel, Walter Pfefferle
  • Patent number: 6972190
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide from Corynebacterium glutamicum having a polynucleotide sequence which codes for the carbon starvation protein A (cstA) gene, and a host-vector system having a coryneform host bacterium in which the cstA gene is present in enhanced form and a vector which carries at least the cstA gene according to SEQ ID NO: 1, and the use of polynucleotides which comprise the sequences according to the invention as hybridization probes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Bettina Möckel, Achim Marx, Walter Pfefferle, Mike Farwick, Thomas Hermann
  • Publication number: 20050266534
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide having a polynucleotide sequence which codes for the cstA gene, and a host-vector system having a coryneform host bacterium in which the cstA gene is present in attenuated form and a vector which carries at least the cstA gene according to SEQ ID No 1, and the use of polynucleotides which comprise the sequences according to the invention as hybridization probes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Inventors: Bettina Mockel, Achim Marx, Walter Pfefferle, Mike Farwick, Thomas Hermann
  • Publication number: 20050221450
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide from Corynebacterium glutamicum comprising a polynucleotide sequence chosen from the group consisting of (a) a polynucleotide which is identical to the extent of at least 70% to a polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (b) a polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which comprises an amino acid sequence which is identical to the extent of at least 70% to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (c) a polynucleotide which is complementary to the polynucleotides of (a) or (b); and (d) a polynucleotide comprising at least 15 successive nucleotides of the polynucleotide sequence of (a), (b), or (c), and a process for the fermentative preparation of L-amino acids using coryneform bacteria in which at least the sigE gene is present in enhanced form, and the use of polynucleotides which comprise the sequence according to the invention as hybridization probes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Bettina Mockel, Thoams Hermann, Mike Farwick, Michael Binder, Walter Pfefferle
  • Patent number: 6949374
    Abstract: The invention relates to a genetically modified coryneform bacterium, the fadD15 gene of which is amplified, and an isolated polynucleotide which codes for acyl-CoA synthase from coryneform bacteria, and also a method for the fermentative preparation of L-amino acids with amplification of the fadD15 gene in the bacteria and the use of the polynucleotide as a primer or hybridization probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Madhavan Nampoothiri K., Bettina Möckel, Walter Pfefferle, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm
  • Publication number: 20050196848
    Abstract: An isolated polynucleotide containing a polynucleotide sequence selected from the group a) polynucleotide which is at least 70% identical to a polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide containing the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID no. 2, b) polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which contains an amino acid sequence which is at least 70% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID no. 2, c) polynucleotide which is complementary to the polynucleotides of a) or b) and d) polynucleotide containing at least 15 successive bases of the polynucleotide sequence of a), b) or c), and a process for the fermentative production of L-amino acids by attenuation of the poxB gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Nicole Dusch, Brigitte Bathe, Jorn Kalinowski, Alfred Puhler, Bettina Mockel, Anke Weissenborn, Walter Pfefferle
  • Patent number: 6939694
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide having a polynucleotide sequence which codes for the citB gene, and a host-vector system having a coryneform host bacterium in which the citB gene is present in attenuated form and a vector which carries at least the citB gene according to SEQ ID No 1, and the use of polynucleotides which comprise the sequences according to the invention as hybridization probes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Inventors: Bettina Möckel, Thomas Hermann, Mike Farwick, Walter Pfefferle, Achim Marx
  • Patent number: 6913908
    Abstract: The present invention relates lo an isolated polynucleotide from Corynebacterium glutamicum comprising a polynucleotide sequence chosen from the group c insisting of (a) a polynucleotide which is identical to the extent of at least 70% to a polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (b) a polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which comprises an amino acid sequence which is identical to the extent of at least 70% to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (c) a polynucleotide which is complementary to the polynucleotides of(a) or (b), and (d) a polynucleotide comprising at least 15 successive nucleotides of the polynucleotide sequence of (a), (b), or (c), and a process for the fermentative preparation of L-amino acids using coryneform bacteria in which at least the sigE gene is present in enhanced form, and the use of polynucleotides which comprise the sequence according to the invention as hybridization probes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Bettina Möckel, Thoams Hermann, Mike Farwick, Michael Binder, Walter Pfefferle
  • Patent number: 6913910
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide containing a polynucleotide sequence selected from the group comprising: a) polynucleotide that is at least 70% identical to a polynucleotide coding for a polypeptide that contains the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 2, b) polynucleotide coding for a polypeptide that contains an amino acid sequence that is at least 70% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No.2, c) polynucleotide that is complementary to the polynucleotides of a) or b), and d) polynucleotide containing at least 15 successive bases of the polynucleotide sequence of a), b) or c), and processes for the fermentative production of L-amino acids by enhancement of the glk-gene coding for the enzyme glucokinase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Bettina Möckel, Walter Pfefferle
  • Publication number: 20050112733
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of L-amino acids. The process involves fermenting an L-amino acid producing coryneform bacteria in a culture medium, concentrating L-amino acid in the culture medium or in the cells of the bacteria, and isolating the L-amino acid produced. The bacteria has an amplified gene encoding the Zwischenferment protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Kevin Burke, Hermann Sahm, Lothar Eggeling, Bernd Moritz, L. Dunican, Ashling McCormack, Cliona Stapleton, Bettina Mockel, Georg Thierbach, Rita Dunican
  • Publication number: 20050112730
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides that encode proteins having OpcA enzymatic activity. These polynucleotides can be used for increasing lysine biosynthesis in Coryneform glutamicum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Applicant: Degussa AG
    Inventors: L. Dunican, Rita Dunican, Ashling McCormack, Cliona Stapelton, Kevin Burke, Bernd Moritz, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Bettina Mockel, Anke Weissenborn
  • Publication number: 20050112664
    Abstract: The invention relates to isolated polynucleotides comprising a polynucleotide sequence chosen from the group consisting of a) polynucleotide which is identical to the extent of at least 70% to a polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 2, b) polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which. comprises an amino acid sequence which is identical to the extent of at least 70% to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 2, c) polynucleotide which is complementary to the polynucleotides of a) or b), and d) polynucleotide comprising at least 15 successive nucleotides of the polynucleotide sequence of a), b) or c), and a process for the fermentative preparation of L-amino acids using coryneform bacteria in which at least the citA gene is present in attenuated form, and the use of polynucleotides which comprise the sequences according to the invention as hybridization probes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Bettina Mockel, Mike Farwick, Thomas Hermann, Achim Marx, Walter Pfefferle
  • Patent number: 6897055
    Abstract: The invention relates to polynucleotides that contain polynucleotide sequences coding for the genes sucC and sucD, selected from the group a) polynucleotide that is at least 70% identical to a polynucleotide coding for a polypeptide that contains the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 2, b) polynucleotide that is at least 70% identical to a polynucleotide coding for a polypeptide that contains the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 3, c) polynucleotide coding for a polypeptide that contains an amino acid sequence that is at least 70% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 2, d) polynucleotide coding for a polypeptide that contains an amino acid sequence that is at least 70% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Bettina Möckel, Walter Pfefferle, Achim Marx
  • Publication number: 20050100927
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide from coryneform bacteria containing at least one polynucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of a) polynucleotide which is at least 70% identical to a polynucleotide which encodes a polypeptide containing the amino acid sequence according to SEQ ID no. 2, b) polynucleotide which encodes a polypeptide which contains an amino acid sequence which is at least 70% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID no. 2, c) polynucleotide which is complementary to the polynucleotides of a) or b), and d) polynucleotide containing at least 15 successive nucleotides of the polynucleotide sequences of a), b) or c), and to a process for the fermentative production of L-amino acids, in particular L-lysine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Applicant: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Bettina Mockel, Anke Weissenborn, Walter Pfefferle, Michael Hartmann, Jorn Kalinowski, Alfred Puhler
  • Publication number: 20050074791
    Abstract: The invention relates to L-lysine-producing strains of corynebacteria with enhanced lysE gene (lysine export carrier gene), in which strains additional genes chosen from the group comprising the dapA gene (dihydrodipicolinate synthase gene), the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), the dapB gene (dihydrodipicolinate reductase gene) and the pyc gene, but especially the dapA gene and the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), are enhanced and, in particular, over-expressed, and to a process for the preparation of L-lysine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Applicants: Degussa-Huls Aktiengesellachaft, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Caroline Kreutzer, Stephan Hans, Mechthild Rieping, Bettina Mockel, Walter Pfefferle, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Miroslav Patek
  • Patent number: 6872553
    Abstract: The invention relates to isolated nucleotide sequences from Coryneform bacteria which code for the pck gene encoding the enzyme phosphoenol pyruvate carboxykinase (PEP carboxykinase). The invention also relates a process for the fermentative preparation of L-amino acids, in particular L-lysine, L-threonine, and L-glutamate by attenuation of the pck gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Eikmanns, Christian Riedel, Hermann Sahm, Bettina Mockel
  • Patent number: 6861246
    Abstract: The invention relates to L-lysine-producing strains of corynebacteria with enhanced pyc gene (pyruvate carboxylase gene), in which strains additional genes, chosen from the group consisting of the dapA gene (dihydrodipicolinate synthase gene), the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), the lysE gene (lysine export carrier gene) and the dapB gene (dihydrodipicolinate reductase gene), but especially the dapA gene, are enhanced and, in particular, over-expressed, and to a process for the preparation of L-lysine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Caroline Kreutzer, Bettina Mockel, Walter Pfefferle, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Miroslav Patek