Patents by Inventor Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis

Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis 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).

  • METHOD FOR PREPARING BUTANOL THROUGH BUTYRYL-CoA AS AN INTERMEDIATE USING BACTERIA
    Publication number: 20110020888
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing butanol using a bacterium capable of biosynthesizing butanol from butyryl-CoA as an intermediate. More particularly, a method for producing butanol, the method comprising generating bytyryl-CoA in a bacterium which contains a gene coding for AdhE (an enzyme responsible for the conversion of butyryl-CoA to butanol) using various methods, and converting the butyryl-CoA into butanol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: BIOFUELCHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis, Sang Yup Lee, Jin Hwan Park
  • METHOD FOR PREPARING BUTANOL THROUGH BUTYRYL-COA AS AN INTERMEDIATE USING YEAST
    Publication number: 20100143985
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method for producing butanol in yeast having the ability to biosynthesize butanol using butyryl-CoA as an intermediate, the method comprises producing butyryl-CoA in yeast having a CoAT (acetyl-CoA:butyryl-CoA CoA-transferase)-encoding gene introduced thereinto, through various pathways, and then converting the produced butyryl-CoA to butanol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: BIOFUELCHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Yup Lee, Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis, Yu-Sin Jang
  • ENHANCED BUTANOL PRODUCING MICROORGANISMS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING BUTANOL USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20100136640
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant mutant microorganism having enhanced butanol producing capacity and a method for producing butanol using the same. In the microorganism, genes coding for enzymes responsible for the biosynthesis of lactate, ethanol and/or acetate are deleted or attenuated and genes coding for enzymes involved in butanol biosynthesis are introduced and amplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: BIOFUELCHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Yup Lee, Jin Hwan Park, Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis