Trichoderma Patents (Class 435/254.6)
  • Publication number: 20150024009
    Abstract: The invention provides an isolated genetically modified non-mammalian organism, wherein the activity of acyl-CoA:sterol acyltransferase/sterol O-acyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.26) and/or diacylglycerol acyltransferase/diacylglycerol O-acyltranferase (EC 2.3.1.20) and/or lecithin cholesterol acyl transferase/phospholipid: diacylglycerol acyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.158) and/or acyl CoA-wax alcohol acyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.75) is reduced or abolished in comparison with a corresponding wildtype organism, methods of use of such an organism, shuttle vehicles for making such an organism and methods for producing such an organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: ORGANOBALANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Christine Lang, Andreas Raab
  • Publication number: 20150026843
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having proteaseactivity 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 polypeptidesin e.g. animal feed and detergents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Tine Hoff, Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Rahbek Oestergaard, Katrine Pontoppidan
  • Publication number: 20150024439
    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 for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Kimberly Brown, Paul Harris, Elizabeth Zaretsky, Edward Re, Elena Vlasenko, Keith McFarland, Alfredo Lopez de Leon
  • Publication number: 20150010961
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a family 5 glycoside hydrolase variant having endoglucanase activity, polynucleotides encoding the family 5 glycoside hydrolase variant, vectors, host cells comprising the polynucleotides, and methods for using the family 5 glycoside hydrolase variant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: John Poland, Justin T. Stege
  • Publication number: 20150011482
    Abstract: Nutritive proteins are provided. In some embodiments the nutritive proteins comprise a first polypeptide sequence comprising a fragment of a naturally-occurring nutritive protein. In some embodiments the fragment comprises at least one of a) an enhanced ratio of branch chain amino acid residues to total amino acid residues present in the nutritive protein; b) an enhanced ratio of leucine residues to total amino acid residues present in the nutritive protein; and c) an enhanced ratio of essential amino acid residues to total amino acid residues present in the nutritive protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: David Arthur Berry, Brett Adam Boghigian, Nathaniel W. Silver, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Rajeev Chillakuru, Michael Hamill
  • Publication number: 20150010943
    Abstract: The present invention relates to genetic modifications in eukaryotic host cells that have been transformed to express a xylose isomerase that confers on the host cell the ability to isomerize xylose to xylulose. These genetic modifications are aimed at improving the efficiency of xylose metabolism and include, e.g., reduction of nonspecific aldose reductase activity, increased xylulose kinase activity and increased flux of the pentose phosphate pathway. The modified host cells of the invention are suitable for the production of a wide variety of fermentation products, including ethanol, in fermentation processes in which a source of xylose or a source of xylose and glucose are used as carbon source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Aaron Adriaan WINKLER, Sipko Maarten KUYPER, Wilhelmus Theodorus Antonius Maria DE LAAT, Johannes Pieter VAN DIJKEN, Jacobus Thomas PRONK
  • Publication number: 20140377282
    Abstract: The present invention provides anti-KDR monoclonal antibodies and related compositions, which may be used in any of a variety of therapeutic methods for the treatment of a variety of cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetic retinopathy and other diseases associated with aberrant VEGF or KDR expression and/or activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: APEXIGEN, INC.
    Inventors: Yaohuang Ke, Sum Wai Pierre Lee, Yongke Zhang, Guo-Liang Yu, Weimin Zhu
  • Publication number: 20140377407
    Abstract: This invention relates to a novel alpha-amylase, a process for its preparation and the use of the amylase. The invention relates to a newly identified polynucleotide sequence from Alicyclobacillus pohliae comprising a gene that encodes the novel alpha-amylase enzyme. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional protein of the gene. The invention also relates to methods of using these proteins in industrial processes, for example in food industry, such as the baking industry. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins and cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventor: Lucie Parenicova
  • Publication number: 20140380527
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having lysozyme 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: November 23, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Kirk Matthew Schnorr
  • Patent number: 8916361
    Abstract: The subject invention relates to the identification of a gene involved in the elongation of polyunsaturated fatty acids containing unsaturation at the carbon 9 position (i.e., “?9-elongase”) and to uses thereof. In particular, ?9-elongase may be utilized, for example, in the conversion of linoleic acid (LA, 18:2n-6) to eicosadienoic acid (EDA, 20:2n-6). The production of dihomo-?-linolenic acid (DGLA, 20:3n-6) from eicosadienoic acid (EDA, 20:2n-6), and arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4n-6) from dihomo-?-linolenic acid (DGLA, 20:3n-6) is then catalyzed by ?8-desaturase and ?5-desaturase, respectively. AA or polyunsaturated fatty acids produced therefrom may be added to pharmaceutical compositions, nutritional compositions, animal feeds, as well as other products such as cosmetics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Tapas Das, Pradip Mukerji, Padmavathy Krishnan, Amanda E. Leonard, Suzette L. Pereira
  • Patent number: 8916370
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions comprising at least one isoprene synthase enzyme with improved catalytic activity and/or solubility. In particular, the present invention provides variant plant isoprene synthases for increased isoprene production in microbial host cells. Biosynthetically produced isoprene of the present invention finds use in the manufacture of rubber and elastomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignees: Danisco US Inc., The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard R. Bott, Marguerite A. Cervin, James T. Kellis, Jr., Joseph C. McAuliffe, Andrei Miasnikov, Caroline M. Peres, Christopher Lee Rife, Derek H. Wells, Walter Weyler, Gregory M. Whited
  • Publication number: 20140370595
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of producing a product or product precursor of a biosynthetic pathway in a genetically modified host cell. The present invention also provides genetically modified host cells comprising nucleic acids encoding a scaffold polypeptide and nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding two or more enzymes in a biosynthetic pathway. The present invention further provides nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding scaffold polypeptides, for use in a subject method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: John E. Dueber, Jay D. Keasling, Gabriel C. Wu, Ghulam Reza K. Malmirchegini
  • Publication number: 20140370546
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods useful for the production of heterologous proteins in filamentous fungal cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Christopher Landowski, Anne Huuskonen, Juhani Saarinen, Ann Westerholm-Parvinen, Anne Kanerva, Jari Natunen, Anna-Liisa Hänninen, Noora Salovuori, Merja Pentillä, Markku Saloheimo
  • Publication number: 20140356922
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having glucoamylase activity with improved properties and to compositions comprising these polypeptides suitable for use in the production of a food, beverage (e.g. beer), feed, or biofuel. Also described is an improved and cost-effective process for isolating glucoamylases suitable for large scale protein purification procedures. Furthermore, different methods and uses related to glucoamylases according to the invention are disclosed, such as in a brewing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Jacob Flyvholm Cramer, Neville Marshall Fish, Peter Edvard Degn, Igor Nikolaev, Paulien Kruithof, Piet Van Solingen, Sander Van Stigt Thans, Suzy Breneman, Jayarama K. Shetty, Sung Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20140349395
    Abstract: The present invention provides high affinity anti-CD40 monoclonal antibodies and related compositions, which may be used in any of a variety of therapeutic methods for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Apexigen, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongke ZHANG, Guo-Liang YU, Weimin ZHU
  • Publication number: 20140349372
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lipase variants and methods of obtaining them. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Luise Erlandsen, Carsten Hoerslev Hansen, Jesper Vind, Allan Svendsen, Carsten Peter Sonksen
  • Publication number: 20140342404
    Abstract: The present invention concerns polypeptides comprising a variant Fc region. More particularly, the present invention concerns Fc region-containing polypeptides that have altered effector function as a consequence of one or more amino acid modifications in the Fc region thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: GENENTECH, INC.
    Inventor: Leonard G. PRESTA
  • Publication number: 20140342408
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having xylanase 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 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Lan Tang, Junxin Duan, Ye Liu
  • Publication number: 20140342410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase 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: May 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventor: Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Publication number: 20140342422
    Abstract: The present invention relates to glucoamylase variants having reduced sensitivity to protease nicking. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Tomoko Matsui, Suzanne Clark
  • Publication number: 20140335572
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having catalase activity and 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: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Yu Zhang, Lan Tang
  • Patent number: 8883482
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for increasing homologous recombination of a nucleic acid sequence introduced into a host cell, comprising: (a) introducing into a population of filamentous fungal host cells a first nucleic acid sequence encoding a recombination protein and a second nucleic acid sequence comprising one or more regions which are homologous with the genome of the filamentous fungal host cell, wherein (i) the recombination protein promotes the recombination of the one or more regions with the corresponding homologous region in the host's genome to incorporate the second nucleic acid sequence by homologous recombination, and (ii) the number of host cells comprising the incorporated second nucleic acid sequence in the population is increased at least 20% compared to the same population without the first nucleic acid sequence; (b) and isolating from the population a filamentous fungal cell comprising the incorporated second nucleic acid sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Harris, Howard Brody
  • Publication number: 20140329292
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel enzymes and novel methods for producing the same. More specifically this invention relates to a variety of fungal enzymes. Nucleic acid molecules encoding such enzymes, compositions, recombinant and genetically modified host cells, and methods of use are described. The invention also relates to a method to convert lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars with enzymes that degrade the lignocellulosic material and novel combinations of enzymes, including those that provide a synergistic release of sugars from plant biomass. The invention also relates to a method to release cellular content by degradation of cell walls. The invention also relates to methods to use the novel enzymes and compositions of such enzymes in a variety of other processes, including washing of clothing, detergent processes, biorefining, deinking and biobleaching of paper and pulp, and treatment of waste streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: DYADIC INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Mark A. EMARLFARB, Alexander Vasilievich Gusakov, Peter J. Punt, Jan Cornelis Verdoes, Arkady Panteleimonovich Sinitsyn, Elena Vlasenko, Sandra Wihelmina Agnes Hinz, Mark Gosink, Zhijie Jiang
  • Publication number: 20140331364
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having beta-glucosidase activity and 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: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Yu Zhang, Lan Tang
  • Publication number: 20140329283
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new enzymes with improved properties and to compositions comprising these enzymes suitable for use in the production of a food, feed, or malt beverage product, such as in a brewing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: DUPONT NUTRITION BIOSCIENCES APS
    Inventors: Jens Frisbæk Sørensen, Lone Brønd Miller
  • Publication number: 20140328797
    Abstract: The invention provides isolated fully human monoclonal anti-HRV antibodies, as well as method of making and using these antibodies. Anti-HRV antibodies of the invention prevent or treat subjects having HRV-infections, and related diseases, including, but not limited to, the common cold, nasopharyngitis, croup, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sinusitis, bacterial superinfection, and cystic fibrosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Po-Ying Chan-Hui, III, Kristine Swiderek
  • Patent number: 8877481
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for enhancing growth of plants which comprises contacting a Trichoderma strain with the plant or a plant seed under conditions effective for the Trichoderma strain to colonize the roots of the plant or a plant grown from the plant seed, thereby creating a plant-Trichoderma system. The plant or plant seed is grown under conditions effective to sustain the plant-Trichoderma system in a planting medium and to enhance plant growth, where the Trichoderma strain is selected from the group consisting of Trichoderma atroviride strain WW10TC4 (ATCC accession number PTA 9707), Trichoderma harzianum strain RR17Bc (ATCC accession number PTA 9708), Trichoderma harzianum strain F11Bab (ATCC accession number PTA 9709), and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventor: Gary E. Harman
  • Patent number: 8877480
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for enhancing growth of plants which comprises contacting a Trichoderma strain with the plant or a plant seed under conditions effective for the Trichoderma strain to colonize the roots of the plant or a plant grown from the plant seed, thereby creating a plant-Trichoderma system. The plant or plant seed is grown under conditions effective to sustain the plant-Trichoderma system in a planting medium and to enhance plant growth, where the Trichoderma strain is selected from the group consisting of Trichoderma atroviride strain WW10TC4 (ATCC accession number PTA 9707), Trichoderma harzianum strain RR17Bc (ATCC accession number PTA 9708), Trichoderma harzianum strain F11Bab (ATCC accession number PTA 9709), and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventor: Gary E. Harman
  • Publication number: 20140322768
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having peroxygenase 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: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Sara Landvik, Lars Henrik Oestergaard, Lisbeth Kalum
  • Publication number: 20140322218
    Abstract: The present invention provides to a antibody construct comprising a first human binding domain capable of binding to human CDH19 on the surface of a target cell and a second domain capable of binding to human CD3 on the surface of a T cell. Moreover, the invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence encoding the antibody construct, a vector comprising said nucleic acid sequence and a host cell transformed or transfected with said vector. Furthermore, the invention relates a process for the production of the antibody construct of the invention, a medical use of said antibody construct and a kit comprising said antibody construct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: AMGEN RESEARCH (MUNICH) GMBH
    Inventors: Shouhua Xiao, Zheng Pan, Dineli Wickramasinghe, Shawn Jeffries, Chadwick T. King, Brian Mingtung Chan, Peter Kufer, Ralf Lutterbüse, Tobias Raum, Patrick Hoffmann, Doris Rau, Roman Kischel, Bryan Lemon, Holger Wesche
  • Publication number: 20140322762
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of sugar hydrolysates from cellulosic material. The method may be used e.g. for producing fermentable sugars for the production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic material. Cellulolytic enzymes and their production by recombinant technology is described, as well as uses of the enzymes and enzyme preparations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: ROAL OY
    Inventors: Jari VEHMAANPERÄ, Marika ALAPURANEN, Terhi PURANEN, Matti SIIKA-AHO, Jarno KALLIO, Satu HOOMAN, Sanni VOUTILAINEN, Teemu HALONEN, Liisa VIIKARI
  • Publication number: 20140322770
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having peroxygenaseactivity, 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: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Sara Landvik, Lars Henrik Oestergaard, Lisbeth Kalum
  • Publication number: 20140322764
    Abstract: What is aimed at is provision of an inexpensive and efficient saccharification method for lignocellulose using a thermostable xylanase and provision of a mutant xylanase that has a substitute amino acid residue, and that exhibits stable activity even under severe conditions in which enzymes easily inactivate, and that provides an initial rate of reaction not significantly reduced as compared to a wild-type xylanase corresponding to the mutant xylanase. Provided is a method of producing a saccharified product of lignocellulose, including contacting a lignocellulosic raw material with a thermostable xylanase, and a mutant xylanase that provides an initial rate of reaction that is at least 70% of that provided by a wild-type xylanase corresponding thereto, that has a xylanase activity after heat treatment at 50° C. for 24 hours that is at least 50% of its xylanase activity before the heat treatment, and that has a substitute amino acid residue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Hisaaki Yanai, Hiroki Tamai, Masami Osabe, Fumikazu Yokoyama, Kaoru Okakura, Atsushi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20140325711
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having lysozyme 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: November 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Jens Erik Nielsen, Mikkel Klausen
  • Publication number: 20140322812
    Abstract: This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to novel substitution mutant receptors and their use in a nuclear receptor-based inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating the expression of a gene in a host cell for applications such as gene therapy, large scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based high throughput screening assays, functional genomics and regulation of traits in transgenic organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Intrexon Corporation
    Inventors: Subba Reddy PALLI, Mohan Basavaraju KUMAR
  • Publication number: 20140322753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase 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 for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Paul Harris, Elena Vlasenko, Marcus Sakari Kauppinnen, Elizabeth Zaretsky, Sarah Teter, Kimberly Brown
  • Publication number: 20140322755
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sophorolipid composition that can be used for inducing protein expression in a fermentation host. The sophorolipid composition described herein can be prepared from a natural sophorolipid mixture. Acid treatment of the natural sophorolipid mixture results in a mixture of monoacetylated, deacetylated, and/or diacetylated sophorolipids. The chemically modified sophorolipid composition, or isolated components of the chemically modified sophorolipid composition, can be used as inducers for protein production in filamentous fungi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventor: Tom Tao Huang
  • Publication number: 20140322221
    Abstract: The present application describes engineered antibodies, with three or more functional antigen binding sites, and uses, such as therapeutic applications, for such engineered antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Kathy L. MILLER, Leonard G. PRESTA
  • Publication number: 20140315313
    Abstract: Described are compositions and methods relating to variant filamentous fungi having altered growth characteristics. Such variants are well-suited for growth in submerged cultures, e.g., for the large-scale production of enzymes and other proteins for commercial applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: DANISCO US INC.
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Bodie, Robert James Pratt, II
  • Publication number: 20140317786
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-glucosidase activity, beta-xylosidase activity, or beta-glucosidase and beta-xylosidase 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 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventor: Marc Morant
  • Publication number: 20140314797
    Abstract: Lower eukaryotic host cells have been engineered to produce glycoprotein having at least one terminal ?-galactosyl epitope. The glycoproteins are useful for the production of highly antigenic glycoprotein compositions with advantages for the production of vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Natarajan Sethuraman, Robert C. Davidson, Terrance A. Stadheim, Stefan Wildt
  • Publication number: 20140308748
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel recombinant fungal strain of Trichoderma sp. MTCC 5659 useful for enhancing the nutritional value and growth of plants. The invention further relates to a formulation useful as bioinoculant, wherein the said formulation comprises MTCC 5659 optionally along with a carrier. The claimed strain has been developed via the protoplast fusion technique of two parent Trichoderma strains and is useful for stimulating the content of amino acids, trace elements, chlorophyll and plant growth and yield attributing characters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
    Inventors: Aradhana Mishra, Chandra Shekhar Nautiyal
  • Publication number: 20140308271
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies or fragments thereof that bind to TL1A. More specifically, the present invention relates to an antibody or fragment thereof that binds to TL1A comprising a heavy chain CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 51, and/or a heavy chain CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 52, and/or a heavy chain CDR3 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 53; and/or comprising a light chain CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 54, and/or a light chain CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 55 and/or a light chain CDR3 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 56.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: GLENMARK PHARMACEUTICALS S.A.
    Inventors: ANTOINE ATTINGER, JONATHAN ALBERT BACK, STANISLAS BLEIN, RAMI LISSILAA, DARKO SKEGRO
  • Publication number: 20140308701
    Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant filamentous fungal host cells producing cellulolytic enzyme compositions and methods of producing and using the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Jeffrey Shasky, Amanda Fischer, Suchindra Maiyuran
  • Publication number: 20140304859
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and 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: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang
  • Publication number: 20140295504
    Abstract: The present invention provides an isolated fungal cell that is capable of producing one or more biomass-degrading enzymes and that exhibits increased or decreased expression or copy number of a polynucleotide encoding a PtaB-like protein. Also provided is a fermentation processes for producing one or more biomass-degrading enzymes comprising a fungal cells exhibiting increased or decreased expression or copy number of a polynucleotide encoding a PtaB-like protein. The biomass-degrading enzymes produced by the isolate fungal cell and fermentation processes of the present invention may be used in a process to produce soluble sugars from biomass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Philippe J. Dufresne, Adam H. Colville, Barbara Fryzuk, Loreta Gudynaite-Savitch, Christopher M.D. Hindle, Boguslaw Ploch, John J. Tomashek
  • Publication number: 20140287445
    Abstract: A flavin-binding glucose dehydrogenase (FAD-GDH), which in addition to having high substrate specificity and adequate desirable heat stability, is suitable for efficient production, preferably using E. coli, yeast or molds and the like as host cells. The FAD-GDH has amino acid substitutions at positions equivalent to one or more locations selected from the group consisting of position 213, position 368 and position 526 in the amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 8. The FAD-GDH is acquired from a culture by inserting a gene encoding the FAD-GDH into host cells such as E. coli. A preferable example of the FAD-GDH is FAD-GDH, in which a signal peptide region present in an N-terminal region has been deleted from the amino acid sequence of Mucor-derived FAD-GDH, and which has the aforementioned amino acid substitutions. The FAD-GDH can be preferably used in clinical diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Ryoko Tajima, Kozo Hirokawa, Eriko Yoshihara, Yasuko Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20140287465
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having xylanase activity, catalytic domains, and carbohydrate binding domains, and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains, and carbohydrate binding domains. The present invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains, and carbohydrate binding domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Nikolaj Spodsberg, Tarana Shaghasi
  • Publication number: 20140286934
    Abstract: The present invention relates to humanized antibodies or fragments thereof that bind to human CD19. More specifically, the present invention relates to a humanized antibody or fragment thereof that binds to human CD19 comprising a heavy chain CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 27, and/or a heavy chain CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 28, and/or a heavy chain CDR3 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 29; and/or comprising a light chain CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 30, and/or a light chain CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 31 and/or a light chain CDR3 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 32.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: GLENMARK PHARMACEUTICALS S.A.
    Inventors: Stanislas BLEIN, Darko Skegro, Christophe Debonneville, Martin Bertschinger
  • Publication number: 20140287471
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to variant CBH I polypeptides that have reduced product inhibition, and compositions, e.g., cellulase compositions, comprising variant CBH I polypeptides. The variant CBH I polypeptides and related compositions can be used in variety of agricultural and industrial applications. The present disclosure further relates to nucleic acids encoding variant CBH I polypeptides and host cells that recombinantly express the variant CBH I polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Bp Corporation North America Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah Richardson Hanson, Justin T. Stege, Cecilia Cheng, Peter Luginbuhl