Patents by Inventor Yuxiang BAI

Yuxiang BAI 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).

  • Publication number: 20240060062
    Abstract: Disclosed are an agarase mutant with improved thermal stability and application thereof, belonging to the fields of genetic engineering technology and enzyme engineering. The present disclosure provides an agarase mutant, which is obtained by mutating the amino acid at the 86th site, the 373rd site, the 374th site, the 496th site, the 507th site, or the 747th site of agarase with an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO.1. The agarase mutant provided by the present disclosure improves the thermal stability and the hydrolytic activity of the agarase. Compared with the wild type enzyme, the mutant enzyme shows excellent heat resistance and can be industrially used at a relatively high temperature, so that the utilization rate of agar raw materials and the yield of oligosaccharides from agar are improved, and the mutant enzyme has a good industrial application prospect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Jie LONG, Ziying YE, Zhengyu JIN, Cheng Lu, Xingfei Li, Yaoqi TIAN, Yuxiang BAI, Xing ZHOU, Chao QIU, Long CHEN, Zhengjun XIE
  • Patent number: 11142752
    Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to a method for reducing the inhibitory effect of a cyclodextrin on a pullulanase and belongs to the technical field of gene engineering, enzyme engineering or food science. The method of the disclosure prepares a pullulanase mutant by reasonably mutating the key amino acid of the pullulanase interactive with the cyclodextrin to reduce the inhibitory effect of the cyclodextrin on the pullulanase, thereby improving the hydrolysis activity of the pullulanase. The disclosure finds the interactive sites of the pullulanase and the cyclodextrin based on analysis of crystal structures of enzymes and inhibitors and sequence comparison of enzymes from different sources, and utilizes site-directed mutation to obtain the pullulanase mutant having reduced sensibility to the cyclodextrin, thereby improving the utilization ratio of the starch raw material and the yield of the cyclodextrin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhengyu Jin, Yuxiang Bai, Xiaoxiao Li
  • Publication number: 20210293833
    Abstract: A method for screening adulteration of fibrate anti-hyperlipidemia chemicals in tea by combined method of high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) and bioluminescence, which belongs to the field of food inspection. The method includes: firstly, formulating standard solutions of bezafibrate and ciprofibrate, and preparing a tea sample; pre-washing a thin-layer plate and then performing HPTLC spotting; performing HPTLC separation to move original mixed target objects mixed originally onto different positions of the thin-layer plate according to different molecular structures, so as to form a physical isolation; and subsequently, simultaneous detection of multiple targets in the tea sample could be realized conveniently through luminous bacteria coupled with the thin-layer plate by an immersed manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Yisheng CHEN, Caihong HUANG, Lanping SHU, Xueming XU, Zhengyu JIN, Jie LONG, Yaoqi TIAN, Yuxiang BAI, Na YANG, Yamei JIN
  • Patent number: 11041179
    Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to a method for preparing branched cyclodextrin and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of synthesis of branched cyclodextrin. The method comprises the following steps: (1) dissolving maltodextrin in a phosphate buffer solution, and adding CGTase for reacting; (2) reducing enzyme activity by a physical method; and (3) adding a saccharifying enzyme to the reaction system of step (2), and performing high-temperature enzyme deactivation to obtain the branched cyclodextrin. The method has mild reaction conditions, and at the same time, cyclodextrin and unreacted substrates can be hydrolyzed via the weak coupling activity of CGTase, thereby realizing effective separation of the branched cyclodextrin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yuxiang Bai, Zhengyu Jin, Liuxi Xia, Yun Wu, Xueming Xu, Zhengjun Xie, Jinpeng Wang, Xing Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200406227
    Abstract: A carbon skeleton reinforced porous starch and a preparation method thereof. The method of preparing the porous starch includes bonding starch to transition metal ions, then treating the starch attached with the transition metal ions and amylase via an extruding device, and finally forming a starch-based porous material having a high strength recombination structure, that is, the carbon skeleton reinforced porous starch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Zhengyu JIN, Enbo XU, Zhengzong WU, Aiquan JIAO, Xing ZHOU, Yaoqi TIAN, Jinpeng WANG, Yuxiang BAI, Jianwei ZHAO, Zhengjun XIE, Xueming XU, Na YANG
  • Publication number: 20190270976
    Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to a method for reducing the inhibitory effect of a cyclodextrin on a pullulanase and belongs to the technical field of gene engineering, enzyme engineering or food science. The method of the disclosure prepares a pullulanase mutant by reasonably mutating the key amino acid of the pullulanase interactive with the cyclodextrin to reduce the inhibitory effect of the cyclodextrin on the pullulanase, thereby improving the hydrolysis activity of the pullulanase. The disclosure finds the interactive sites of the pullulanase and the cyclodextrin based on analysis of crystal structures of enzymes and inhibitors and sequence comparison of enzymes from different sources, and utilizes site-directed mutation to obtain the pullulanase mutant having reduced sensibility to the cyclodextrin, thereby improving the utilization ratio of the starch raw material and the yield of the cyclodextrin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Zhengyu JIN, Yuxiang BAI, Xiaoxiao LI
  • Publication number: 20190194708
    Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to a method for preparing branched cyclodextrin and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of synthesis of branched cyclodextrin. The method comprises the following steps: (1) dissolving maltodextrin in a phosphate buffer solution, and adding CGTase for reacting; (2) reducing enzyme activity by a physical method; and (3) adding a saccharifying enzyme to the reaction system of step (2), and performing high-temperature enzyme deactivation to obtain the branched cyclodextrin. The method has mild reaction conditions, and at the same time, cyclodextrin and unreacted substrates can be hydrolyzed via the weak coupling activity of CGTase, thereby realizing effective separation of the branched cyclodextrin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Yuxiang BAI, Zhengyu JIN, Liuxi XIA, Yun WU, Xueming XU, Zhengjun XIE, Jinpeng WANG, Xing ZHOU