Patents by Inventor Pushpa Agrawal

Pushpa Agrawal 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).

  • Bacteriophage, a process for the isolation thereof, and a universal growth medium useful in the process thereof
    Patent number: 6787360
    Abstract: The present invention provides a isolated bacteriophage useful as a tool for studying biological, biochemical, physiological and genetic properties of actinomycetes and other organisms which comprises a novel strain of Saccharomonospora having certain specified characteristics. The invention also relates to a process for the isolation of the said bacteriophage and/or DNA phage and to a novel universal growth medium which is particularly useful in the said process. Another embodiment of the process relates to a clonong vector which comprises a plasmid or bacteriophage comprising the phage DNA of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
    Inventors: Pushpa Agrawal, Vishal Soni
  • Reporter gene based method for the screening of anti-tuberculosis drugs by using essential and regulatory genes of mycobacteria as drug target
    Patent number: 6645505
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The method includes the steps of amplifying one or more whiB-like genes of Mycobacteria by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), cloning the amplified one or more whiB-like genes into a plasmid, transforming the clone into an E. coli using a first shuttle vector, amplifying the clone, introducing the amplified clone into a second shuttle vector, introducing said second shuttle vector into Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
    Inventors: Vishal Soni, Lakshami Pathi Khandrika, Pushpa Agrawal
  • Novel bacteriophage, a process for the islolation thereof, and a universal growth medium useful in the process thereof
    Publication number: 20030032036
    Abstract: The present invention provides a isolated bacteriophage useful as a tool for studying biological, biochemical, physiological and genetic properties of actinomycetes and other organisms which comprises a novel strain of Saccharomonospora having certain specified characteristics. The invention also relates to a process for the isolation of the said bacteriophage and/or DNA phage and to a novel universal growth medium which is particularly useful in the said process. Another embodiment of the process relates to a clonong vector which comprises a plasmid or bacteriophage comprising the phage DNA of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Applicant: COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
    Inventors: Pushpa Agrawal, Vishal Soni
  • Bacteriophage, a process for the isolation thereof, and a universal growth medium useful in the process thereof
    Patent number: 6482632
    Abstract: The present invention provides a isolated bacteriophage useful as a tool for studying biological, biochemical, physiological and genetic properties of actinomycetes and other organisms which comprises a novel strain of Saccharomonospora having certain specified characteristics. The invention also relates to a process for the isolation of the said bacteriophage and/or DNA phage and to a novel universal growth medium which is particularly useful in the said process. Another embodiment of the process relates to a cloning vector which comprises a plasmid or bacteriophage comprising the phage DNA of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Council of Scientic and Industrial Research
    Inventors: Pushpa Agrawal, Vishal Soni
  • Reporter gene based method for the screening of anti-tuberculosis drugs by using essential and regulatory genes of mycobacteria as drug target
    Publication number: 20020164573
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an in vivo drug screening method taking advantage of the yeast two-hybrid system provides a method of using the whiB genes which are regulatory genes of mycobacteria, whose functions have not been reported so far, as drug target by using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a surrogate host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
    Inventors: Vishal Soni, Lakshami Pathi Khandrika, Pushpa Agrawal