Patents by Inventor Junxin Duan

Junxin Duan 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: 8835717
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing 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 of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignees: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Yu Zhang, Christian Joergensen, Randall Kramer
  • Publication number: 20140256000
    Abstract: The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains, cellulose binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains. The invention also provides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan, Tarana Shaghasi
  • Publication number: 20140248663
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity, catalytic domains and cellulose binding domains, and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Junxin Duan, Yu Zhang, Ye Liu
  • Publication number: 20140245498
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Tarana Shaghasi
  • Publication number: 20140234907
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang
  • Publication number: 20140234897
    Abstract: Disclosed are isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains. Furthermore, nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan, Ye Liu, Lan Tang
  • Publication number: 20140223608
    Abstract: The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also provides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang
  • Publication number: 20140220642
    Abstract: The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also provides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan
  • Publication number: 20140206045
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide comprising an open reading frame encoding a polypeptide having alpha-amylase activity, the polypeptide selected from the group consisting of: a) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence which has at least 70% identity with amino acids 22 to 450 of SEQ ID NO: 4; b) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence which has at least 70% identity with the polypeptide encoded by the amylase encoding part of the polynucleotide inserted into a plasmid present in the E. coli host deposited under the Budapest Treaty with DSMZ under accession number DSM 15334; c) a polypeptide encoded by a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence which has at least 70% identity with the sequence shown from position 68 to 1417 in SEQ ID NO: 3; and d) a fragment of (a), (b) or (c) that has alpha-amylase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Wenping Wu, Junxin Duan, Pia Francke Johannesen
  • Publication number: 20140127753
    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: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 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: 20140115740
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing 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 of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicants: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Yu Zhang, Christian Isak Jorgensen, Randall Kramer
  • Publication number: 20140075603
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing 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 of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Randall Kramer
  • Patent number: 8614067
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing 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 of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignees: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Yu Zhang, Christian Isak Jorgensen, Randall Kramer
  • Patent number: 8586827
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing 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 of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignees: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Randall Kramer
  • Patent number: 8586829
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing 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 of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Junxin Duan, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Wenping Wu
  • Publication number: 20130288300
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Novoozymes A/S
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang, Wenping Wu
  • Patent number: 8530216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having alpha-amylase 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 of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Junxin Duan, Zheng Liu, Ming Li, Jim Liu, Guifang Wu
  • Patent number: 8512986
    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: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    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, Sara Landvik
  • Publication number: 20130196387
    Abstract: The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also provides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cell comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang
  • Publication number: 20130189734
    Abstract: The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also provides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES INC.
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Lan Tang, Junxin Duan