Patents by Inventor Hideaki Shinshi

Hideaki Shinshi 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).

  • DNA sequences encoding polypeptides having beta-1,3-glucanase activity
    Patent number: 6632981
    Abstract: The present invention provides chemically regulatable DNA sequences capable of regulating transcription of an associated DNA sequence in plants or plant tissues, chimeric constructions containing such sequences, vectors containing such sequences and chimeric constructions, and transgenic plants and plant tissues containing these chimeric constructions. In one aspect, the chemically regulatable DNA sequences of the invention are derived from the 5′ region of genes encoding pathogenisis-related (PR) proteins. The present invention also provides anti-pathogenic sequences derived from novel cDNAs coding for PR proteins which can be genetically engineered and transformed into plants to confer enhanced resistance to disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Novartis Finance Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick Meins, Jr., Hideaki Shinshi, Herman C. Wenzler, Jan Hofsteenge, John A. Ryals, Christoph Sperisen
  • DNA sequences encoding polypeptides having &bgr;-1,3-glucanase activity
    Patent number: 6262342
    Abstract: The present invention provides chemically regulatable DNA sequences capable of regulating transcription of an associated DNA sequence in plants or plant tissues, chimeric constructions containing such sequences, vectors containing such sequences and chimeric constructions, and transgenic plants and plant tissues containing these chimeric constructions. In one aspect, the chemically regulatable DNA sequences of the invention are derived from the 5′ region of genes encoding pathogenisis-related (PR) proteins. The present invention also provides anti-pathogenic sequences derived from novel cDNAs coding for PR proteins which can be genetically engineered and transformed into plants to confer enhanced resistance to disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Novartis Finance Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick Meins, Jr., Hideaki Shinshi, Herman C. Wenzler, Jan Hofsteenge, John A. Ryals, Christoph Sperisen
  • Hammerhead ribozymes with enhanced stability provided by an additional 3' h a
    Patent number: 5436330
    Abstract: A DNA fragment is disclosed which has connected to the downstream side of a first DNA sequence containing a region coding for the first ribozyme RNA a second DNA sequence containing a region coding for second ribozyme RNA capable of cleaving by self-processing the 3'-terminus site of the first ribozyme RNA subjected to transcription. A ribozyme having the 3'-terminus site thereof self-processed is obtained by effecting transcription of a RNA using as a template a recombinant vector obtained by recombination by the use of the DNA fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Ministry of International Trade & Industry
    Inventors: Kazunari Taira, Masanao Oda, Hideaki Shinshi, Kensuke Furukawa, Hidekatsu Maeda
  • Process for the maintenance and proliferation of defective non-infectious virus genomes in proliferating plant materials
    Patent number: 5215903
    Abstract: A process for the maintenance and proliferation of defective, non-infectious viruses or virus genomes, comprising mutations, i.e. deletions, substitutions, insertions and new rearrangements of the viral genes or combinations of the virus DNA with heterologous genetic material in proliferating plant material and for the regeneration of whole plants containing stably integrated into their genome said defective, non-infectious virus DNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Jerzy Paszkowski, Gabor Lazar, Hideaki Shinshi, Isabelle Rauseo, Thomas Hohn, Ingo Potrykus