Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Udagawa

Hiroaki Udagawa 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: 11434475
    Abstract: The present invention relates to filamentous fungal cells secreting a polypeptide of interest, wherein the expression of a citT gene is altered, reduced or eliminated compared to a non-mutated otherwise isogenic or parent cell, and methods of producing a secreted polypeptide of interest in said cells as well as methods of producing said cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Hiroaki Udagawa
  • Publication number: 20220251581
    Abstract: The present invention relates to phospholipase D-inactivated filamentous fungal cells secreting a polypeptide of interest and methods of producing a secreted polypeptide of interest in said cells as well as methods of producing said cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Hiroaki Udagawa
  • Publication number: 20210340511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to filamentous fungal cells secreting a polypeptide of interest, wherein the expression of a citT gene is altered, reduced or eliminated compared to a non-mutated otherwise isogenic or parent cell, and methods of producing a secreted polypeptide of interest in said cells as well as methods of producing said cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Hiroaki Udagawa
  • Patent number: 10619144
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant fungal host cell comprising at least one first polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide of interest; and one or more second polynucleotide encoding a fungal PepC protease, wherein the one or more second polynucleotide is operably linked to a regulated heterologous promoter, as well as a method for producing a polypeptide of interest, comprising cultivating said fungal host cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Hiroshi Teramoto, Hiroaki Udagawa, Jan Lehmbeck, Michael Lynge Nielsen
  • Patent number: 9850501
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the simultaneous integration of two or more copies of a polynucleotide of interest into the chromosome of a fungal host cell comprising at least two pairs of recognition sequences of a site-specific recombinase, each pair flanking a resident negative selection marker; transformation of the cell with a construct carrying a gene of interest also flanked by the recognition sequences to ensure double-crossover events after transient expression of the recombinase, followed by selection for excision of all negative selection markers from the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Hiroaki Udagawa
  • Publication number: 20170313997
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mutant filamentous fungal host cells producing a polypeptide of interest, wherein two or more polynucleotides encoding two or more polypeptides involved in alpha-glucan synthesis are inactivated; methods of polypeptide production in said mutants as well as methods of constructing such mutants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: Hiroaki Udagawa
  • Patent number: 9777304
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising a carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and an alpha-amylase amino acid sequence as well as to the application of such polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC., NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Shiro Fukuyama, Tomoko Matsui, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Anders Vikso Nielsen, Hiroaki Udagawa, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Lene Nonboe Andersen
  • Publication number: 20170260520
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for integrating a polynucleotide library of interest in the chromosome of a filamentous fungal host cell using a site-specific recombinase, polynucleotide library expression systems comprising a host cell and a polynucleotide construct, as well as the resulting filamentous fungal host cells comprising a polynucleotide library and their cultivation to produce a polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoko Matsui, Hiroaki Udagawa, Siik Kishishita, Dominique Aubert Skovlund, Qiming Jin
  • Patent number: 9719120
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising a carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and an alpha-amylase amino acid sequence as well as to the application of such polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: NOVOZYMES A/S, NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Shiro Fukuyama, Tomoko Matsui, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Anders Vikso Nielsen, Hiroaki Udagawa, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Lene Nonboe Andersen
  • Publication number: 20170191081
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the simultaneous integration of two or more copies of a polynucleotide of interest into the chromosome of a fungal host cell comprising at least two pairs of recognition sequences of a site-specific recombinase, each pair flanking a resident negative selection marker; transformation of the cell with a construct carrying a gene of interest also flanked by the recognition sequences to ensure double-crossover events after transient expression of the recombinase, followed by selection for excision of all negative selection markers from the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Hiroaki Udagawa
  • Patent number: 9657300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polynucleotides having leader sequence function. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods using the polynucleotides for production of polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Hiroaki Udagawa, Rikako Taira, Shinobu Takagi
  • Patent number: 9574199
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the simultaneous integration of two or more copies of a polynucleotide of interest into the chromosome of a fungal host cell comprising at least two pairs of recognition sequences of a site-specific recombinase, each pair flanking a resident negative selection marker; transformation of the cell with a construct carrying a gene of interest also flanked by the recognition sequences to ensure double-crossover events after transient expression of the recombinase, followed by selection for excision of all negative selection markers from the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Hiroaki Udagawa
  • Publication number: 20160244737
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant fungal host cell comprising at least one first polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide of interest; and one or more second polynucleotide encoding a fungal PepC protease, wherein the one or more second polynucleotide is operably linked to a regulated heterologous promoter, as well as a method for producing a polypeptide of interest, comprising cultivating said fungal host cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi Teramoto, Hiroaki Udagawa, Jan Lehmbeck, Michael Lynge Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20160068847
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polynucleotides having leader sequence function. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods using the polynucleotides for production of polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Hiroaki Udagawa, Rikako Taira, Shinobu Takagi
  • Publication number: 20160060641
    Abstract: Disclosed are modified filamentous fungal cells in which the selective autophagy system of the filamentous fungal cell has been partially or completely inactivated, methods of making such genetically modified filamentous fungal cells, and methods for producing biological products of interest in such modified filamentous fungal cells. Also disclosed are genetically modified filamentous fungal cells having disrupted or deleted atg11 activity, methods of making such genetically modified filamentous fungal cells, and methods for producing biological products of interest in such modified filamentous fungal cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroaki Udagawa
  • Publication number: 20160040205
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising a carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and an alpha-amylase amino acid sequence as well as to the application of such polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicants: NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC., NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Shiro Fukuyama, Tomoko Matsui, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Anders Vikso Nielsen, Hiroaki Udagawa, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Lene Nonboe Andersen
  • Patent number: 9222095
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polynucleotides having leader sequence function. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods using the polynucleotides for production of polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Hiroaki Udagawa, Rikako Taira, Shinobu Takagi
  • Patent number: 8945879
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having protease activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Hiroaki Udagawa, Christian Isak Jorgensen
  • Publication number: 20140370553
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising a carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and an alpha-amylase amino acid sequence as well as to the application of such polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Shiro Fukuyama, Tomoko Matsui, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Anders Vikso Nielsen, Hiroaki Udagawa, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Lene Nonboe Andersen
  • Publication number: 20140295493
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having protease activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Hiroaki Udagawa, Christian Isak Jorgensen