Patents by Inventor Lothar Eggeling

Lothar Eggeling 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: 6830921
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide comprising a polynucleotide sequence chosen from the group consisting of a) polynucleotide which is identical to the extent of at least 70 % to a polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 2, b) polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which comprises an amino acid sequence which is identical to the extent of at least 70 % to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 2, c) polynucleotide which is complementary to the polynucleotides of a) or b), and d) polynucleotide comprising at least 15 successive nucleotides of the polynucleotide sequence of a), b) or c), a process for the fermentative preparation of L-amino acids with enhancement of the acp gene and the use of the polynucleotide as a primer or hybridization probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Bettina Möckel, Anke Weissenborn, Walter Pfefferle, Hermann Sahm, Lothar Eggeling, Madhavan Nampoothiri
  • Patent number: 6825029
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides that encode proteins having OpcA enzymatic activity. These polynucleotides can be used for increasing lysine biosynthesis in Coryneform glutamicum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Laurence K. Dunican, Ashling McCormack, Cliona Stapelton, Kevin Burke, Bernd Moritz, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Bettina Möckel, Anke Weissenborn
  • Patent number: 6808914
    Abstract: The invention relates to nucleotide sequences coding for the accDA gene and to a process for the preparation of L-amino acids, especially L-lysine, by fermentation using corynebacteria in which the accDA gene is amplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Yvonne Tilg, Bernhard Eikmanns, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Bettina Möckel
  • Patent number: 6746855
    Abstract: The invention relates to L-lysine-producing strains of corynebacteria with enhanced lysE gene (lysine export carrier gene), in which strains additional genes chosen from the group comprising the dapA gene (dihydrodipicolinate synthase gene), the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), the dapB gene (dihydrodipicolinate reductase gene) and the pyc gene, but especially the dapA gene and the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), are enhanced and, in particular, over-expressed, and to a process for the preparation of L-lysine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignees: Dégussa-Hüls Aktiengesellschaft, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
    Inventors: Caroline Kreutzer, Stephan Hans, Mechthild Rieping, Bettina Mockel, Walter Pfefferle, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Miroslav Patek
  • Publication number: 20040101837
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleotide sequences of coryneform bacteria, coding for proteins involved in the bio-synthesis of L-serine and to methods for the isolation thereof. The invention further relates to an improved method for the production of L-serine. In addition, the present invention relates to the use of L-serine in the food, animal feed and/or pharmaceutical industries or in human medicine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2002
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Petra Ziegler, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Petra Peters-Wendisch
  • Publication number: 20040092710
    Abstract: This invention relates to a genetically modified coryneform bacterium, the cdsA gene of which is amplified, and to an isolated polynucleotide, which codes for phosphatidate cytidylyl transferase from coryneform bacteria and to a method for the fermentative production of L-amino acids with amplification of the cdsA gene in the bacteria and to the use of the polynucleotide as a primer or hybridization probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Madhavan Nampoothiri K., Bettina Mockel, Walter Pfefferle, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm
  • Publication number: 20040014123
    Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides containing at least one of the polynucleotide sequences selected from the group
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Applicants: Degussa-Huls Aktiengesellschaft, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Nicole Kennerknecht, Hermann Sahm, Lothar Eggeling, Walter Pfefferle
  • Patent number: 6680186
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides corresponding to the plsC gene and which encode 1-acyl-SN-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase, methods of producing L-amino acids, and methods of screening for polynucleotides which encode proteins having 1-acyl-SN-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignees: Degussa AG, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
    Inventors: Madhavan Nampoothiri, Brigitte Bathe, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm
  • Patent number: 6638753
    Abstract: The invention relates to a genetically modified coryneform bacterium, the cma gene of which is amplified, and an isolated polynucleotide which codes for cyclopropane-mycolic acid synthase from coryneform bacteria, and also a method for the fermentative preparation of L-amino acids with amplification of the cma gene in the bacteria and the use of the polynucleotide as a primer or hydridization probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignees: Degussa AG, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Madhavan Nampoothiri K., Bettina Möckel, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm
  • Publication number: 20030199045
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of L-amino acids. The process involves fermenting an L-amino acid producing coryneform bacteria in a culture medium, concentrating L-amino acid in the culture medium or in the cells of the bacteria, and isolating the L-amino acid produced. The bacteria has an amplified gene encoding the Zwischenferment protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventors: Kevin Burke, Hermann Sahm, Lothar Eggeling, Bernd Moritz, L. K. Dunican, Ashling McCormack, Cliona Stapelton, Bettina Mockel, Georg Thierbach, Rita Dunican
  • Patent number: 6613545
    Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides containing at least one of the polynucleotide sequences selected from the group a) polynucleotide which is at least 70% identical to a polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide containing at least one amino acid sequence of SEQ ID no. 3 or 5, b) polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which contains an amino acid sequence which is at least 70% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID no. 3 or 5, c) polynucleotide which is complementary to the polynucleotides of a), b) or c), and d) polynucleotide containing at least 15 successive bases of the polynucleotide sequences of a), b) or c). wherein the polypeptides exhibit the biological activity of the enzymes for which the brnE or bernF (sic) gene codes and a process for the fermentative production of branched-chain L-amino acids with amplification of the stated genes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignees: Degussa-Huls Aktiengesellschaft, Forschungszentrum Julich GmgH
    Inventors: Nicole Kennerknecht, Hermann Sahm, Lothar Eggeling, Walter Pfefferle
  • Publication number: 20030162269
    Abstract: The invention relates to L-lysine-producing strains of corynebacteria with enhanced lysE gene (lysine export carrier gene), in which strains additional genes chosen from the group comprising the dapA gene (dihydrodipicolinate synthase gene), the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), the dapB gene (dihydrodipicolinate reductase gene) and the pyc gene, but especially the dapA gene and the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), are enhanced and, in particular, over-expressed, and to a process for the preparation of L-lysine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Caroline Kreutzer, Stephan Hans, Mechthild Rieping, Bettina Mockel, Walter Pfefferle, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Miroslav Patek
  • Publication number: 20030138917
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides that encode proteins having OpcA enzymatic activity. These polynucleotides can be used for increasing lysine biosynthesis in Coryneform glutamicum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: L. K. Dunican, Rita Dunican, Ashling McCormack, Cliona Stapleton, Kevin Burke, Bernd S. Moritz, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Bettina Mockel, Anke Weissenborn
  • Patent number: 6596516
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of L-amino acids, in which the following steps are carried out, a) fermenting the desired L-amino acid-producing bacteria in which at least the glyA gene is attenuated, in particular by removal of the natural promoter, and optionally b) concentrating the desired product in the medium or in the cells of the bacteria and c) isolating the L-amino acid, and optionally bacteria in which further genes of the biosynthesis pathway of the desired L-amino acid are additionally amplified are employed, or bacteria in which the metabolic pathways which reduce the formation of the desired L-amino acid are at least partly eliminated are employed, and nucleotide sequences of the lacI-tac-5′glyA or lacI-tac-glyA unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignees: Degussa AG, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
    Inventors: Petra Ziegler, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Georg Thierbach, Walter Pfefferle
  • Patent number: 6562607
    Abstract: This invention relates to a genetically modified coryneform bacterium, the cls gene of which is amplified, and to an isolated polynucleotide, which codes for cardiolipin synthase from coryneform bacteria and to a process for the fermentative production of L-amino acids with amplification of the cls gene in the bacteria and to the use of the polynucleotide as a primer or hybridization probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignees: Degussa-Huls Aktiengesellschaft, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Madhavan Nampoothiri K., Bettina Möckel, Walter Pfefferle, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm
  • Publication number: 20030049802
    Abstract: The invention relates to preferably recombinant DNA derived from Corynebacterium and replicable in coryneform microorganisms, which contains at least one nucleotide sequence that codes for the thrE gene, and a process for the production of L-threonine, which is characterised in that the following steps are carried out:
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Applicant: Degusa Huls Aktiengeselschaft
    Inventors: Petra Ziegler, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Georg Thierbach
  • Publication number: 20030003558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides corresponding to the plsC gene and which encode 1-acyl-SN-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase, methods of producing L-amino acids, and methods of screening for polynucleotides which encode proteins having 1-acyl-SN-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: DEGUSSA-HUELS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Madhavan Nampoothiri, Brigitte Bathe, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm
  • Publication number: 20020168731
    Abstract: The invention relates to preferably recombinant DNA derived from Corynebacterium and replicable in coryneform microorganisms, which contains at least one nucleotide sequence that codes for the thrE gene, and a process for the production of L-threonine, which is characterised in that the following steps are carried out:
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: Degussa-Huls AG
    Inventors: Petra Ziegler, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Georg Thierbach
  • Publication number: 20020155555
    Abstract: The invention relates to a genetically modified coryneform bacterium, the pgsA2 gene of which is amplified, and an isolated polynucleotide which codes for CDP-diacylglycerol-glycerol-3-phosphate 3-phosphatidyltransferase from coryneform bacteria, and also a method for the fermentative preparation of L-amino acids with amplification of the pgsA2 gene in the bacteria and the use of the polynucleotide as a primer or hydridization probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Inventors: Madhavan Nampoothiri K., Bettina Mockel, Walter Pfefferle, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm
  • Publication number: 20020146781
    Abstract: The invention relates to preferably recombinant DNA derived from Corynebacterium and replicable in coryneform microorganisms, which contains at least one nucleotide sequence that codes for the thrE gene, and a process for the production of L-threonine, which is characterised in that the following steps are carried out:
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: Degusa Huls Aktiengeselschaft
    Inventors: Petra Ziegler, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Georg Thierbach