Patents by Inventor James Allen Wells

James Allen Wells 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: 6465235
    Abstract: Novel carbonyl hydrolase mutants derived from the amino acid sequence of naturally-occurring or recombinant non-human carbonyl hydrolases and DNA sequences encoding the same. The mutant carbonyl hydrolases, in general, are obtained by in vitro modification of a precursor DNA sequence encoding the naturally-occurring or recombinant carbonyl hydrolase to encode the substitution, insertion or deletion of one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence of a precursor carbonyl hydrolase. Such mutants have one or more properties which are different than the same property of the precursor hydrolase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Genenco International, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Ray Bott, Robert Mark Caldwell, Brian C. Cunningham, David Aaron Estell, Scott Douglas Power, James Allen Wells
  • Patent number: 5972682
    Abstract: Novel carbonyl hydrolase mutants derived from the amino acid sequence of naturally-occurring or recombinant non-human carbonyl hydrolases and DNA sequences encoding the same. The mutant carbonyl hydrolases, in general, are obtained by in vitro modification of a precursor DNA sequence encoding the naturally-occurring or recombinant carbonyl hydrolase to encode the substitution, insertion or deletion of one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence of a precursor carbonyl hydrolase. Such mutants have one or more properties which are different than the same property of the precursor hydrolase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Genencor International, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Ray Bott, Robert Mark Caldwell, Brian C. Cunningham, David Aaron Estell, Scott Douglas Power, James Allen Wells
  • Patent number: 5955340
    Abstract: Novel carbonyl hydrolase mutants derived from the amino acid sequence of naturally-occurring or recombinant non-human carbonyl hydrolases and DNA sequences encoding the same. The mutant carbonyl hydrolases, in general, are obtained by in vitro modification of a precursor DNA sequence encoding the naturally-occurring or recombinant carbonyl hydrolase to encode the substitution, insertion or deletion of one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence of a precursor carbonyl hydrolase. Such mutants have one or more properties which are different than the same property of the precursor hydrolase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Genencor International, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Ray Bott, Robert Mark Caldwell, Brian C. Cunningham, David Aaron Estell, Scott Douglas Power, James Allen Wells
  • Patent number: 5939315
    Abstract: Processes for producing various heterologous polypeptides which when expressed are either incorrectly processed and hence asssociated with the surface of the host cell or are not processed to mature form. More specifically, processes for the production of heterologous non-human carbonyl hydrolases expressed either in host cells incapable of producing enzymatically active endoprotease or host cells deficient in enzymatically active extracellular endoprotease are disclosed. Such non-human carbonyl hydrolases generally are incapable of autoproteolytic maturation and become associated with the surface of expression hosts which are deficient in enzymatically active extracellular endoprotease. Processes for preparing non-human carbonyl hydrolase and heterologous polypeptides which are expressed as part of a fusion polypeptide are also disclosed, as well as non-human carbonyl hydrolases which are substantially free of the host cell membrane with which they are normally associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Inventors: Robin Margaret Adams, Scott Douglas Power, David Brian Powers, James Allen Wells, Daniel George Yansura
  • Patent number: 5801038
    Abstract: Novel carbonyl hydrolase mutants derived from the amino acid sequence of naturally-occurring or recombinant non-human carbonyl hydrolases and DNA sequences encoding the same. The mutant carbonyl hydrolases, in general, are obtained by in vitro modification of a precursor DNA sequence encoding the naturally-occurring or recombinant carbonyl hydrolase to encode the substitution, insertion or deletion of one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence of a precursor carbonyl hydrolase. Such mutants have one or more properties which are different than the same property of the precursor hydrolase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Genencor International Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Ray Bott, Robert Mark Caldwell, Brian C. Cunningham, David Aaron Estell, Scott Douglas Power, James Allen Wells
  • Patent number: 5763257
    Abstract: Novel carbonyl hydrolase mutants derived from the amino acid sequence of naturally-occurring or recombinant non-human carbonyl hydrolases and DNA sequences encoding the same. The mutant carbonyl hydrolases, in general, are obtained by in vitro modification of a precursor DNA sequence encoding the naturally-occurring or recombinant carbonyl hydrolase to encode the substitution, insertion or deletion of one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence of a precursor carbonyl hydrolase. Such mutants have one or more properties which are different than the same property of the precursor hydrolase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Genencor International, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Ray Bott, Robert Mark Caldwell, Brian C. Cunningham, David Aaron Estell, Scott Douglas Power, James Allen Wells
  • Patent number: 5700676
    Abstract: Novel carbonyl hydrolase mutants derived from the amino acid sequence of naturally-occurring or recombinant non-human carbonyl hydrolases and DNA sequences encoding the same. The mutant carbonyl hydrolases, in general, are obtained by in vitro modification of a precursor DNA sequence encoding the naturally-occurring or recombinant carbonyl hydrolase to encode the substitution, insertion or deletion of one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence of a precursor carbonyl hydrolase. Such mutants have one or more properties which are different than the same property of the precursor hydrolase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Genencor International Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Ray Bott, Robert Mark Caldwell, Brian C. Cunningham, David Aaron Estell, Scott Douglas Power, James Allen Wells
  • Patent number: 5652136
    Abstract: Novel enzyme mutants are disclosed which are derived from a precursor enzyme by replacing or modifying at least one catalytic functional group of an amino acid residue in a precursor enzyme. Such mutant enzymes have a catalytic preference for substrates which provide the replaced or modified catalytic group or its equivalent such that the substrate together with the enzyme mutant assists in its own catalysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Genencor International, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul John Carter, James Allen Wells