| Codexis, Inc. Patent applications |
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| 20120130087 | Stereomerically Pure Fused Bicyclic Proline Compounds Useful for Preparing Hepatitis C Protease Inhibitors - The present disclosure provides substantially enantiomerically pure heterobicyclic compounds of the following structural formulas, | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120107881 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCTION OF FERMENTABLE SUGARS - The present application provides genetically modified fungal organisms that produce enzyme mixtures exhibiting enhanced hydrolysis of cellulosic material to glucose, enzyme mixtures produced by the genetically modified fungal organisms, and processes for producing glucose from cellulose using such enzyme mixtures. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107880 | FUNGAL STRAINS - The present invention provides improved fungal strains. In some embodiments, the improved fungal strains find use in hydrolyzing cellulosic material to glucose. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120088271 | Use of an Endogenous 2-Micron Yeast Plasmid for Gene Over Expression - Methods and compositions for making stable recombinant yeast 2 μm plasmids are provided. Homologous recombination is performed to clone a nucleic acid of interest into the yeast 2 μm plasmid. Heterologous nucleic acid subsequences are recombined between an FLP and a REP2 gene of the plasmid. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120083019 | Use of Glycoside Hydrolase 61 Family Proteins in Processing of Cellulose - The invention provides recombinant GH61 proteins obtained from | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120077216 | Beta-Glucosidase Variants - The invention relates to recombinantly produced β-Glucosidase Variants with enhanced thermoactivity compared to naturally occurring proteins. The invention also provides methods for producing a variant β-glucosidase polypeptide with improved thermoactivity by identifying performance sensitive positions in a target β-glucosidase polypeptide and substituting the residue at that position with a thermoactivity enhancing residue. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120045793 | EXPRESSION CONSTRUCTS COMPRISING FUNGAL PROMOTERS - The present invention provides promoters derived from a filamentous fungus. These promoters have application in the fields of molecular biology, microbiology, fungal genetics and production of biofuels and other products. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120040437 | ALANINE 2,3-AMINOMUTASES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The present disclosure relates generally to polypeptides having improved alanine 2,3-aminomutase (AAM) activity, the polynucleotides encoding the AAM polypeptides, and expression vectors and host cells for expressing the AAM polypeptides. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120021469 | AMIDASES AND METHODS OF THEIR USE - The disclosure relates to engineered amidase polypeptides and processes of using the polypeptides for chiral resolution of amino acid amide compounds. The disclosure further relates to the polynucleotides that encode the engineered amidase polypeptides and related vectors, host cells, and methods for making the engineered amidase polypeptides. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120015408 | BETA-GLUCOSIDASE VARIANT ENZYMES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention provides variants of the | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120009653 | HIGHLY STABLE BETA-CLASS CARBONIC ANHYDRASES USEFUL IN CARBON CAPTURE SYSTEMS - The present disclosure relates to β-class carbonic anhydrase polypeptides having improved properties including increased thermostability and/or stability in the presence of amine compounds, ammonia, or carbonate ion. The present disclosure also provides formulations and uses of the polypeptides for accelerating the absorption of carbon dioxide from a gas stream into a solution as well as for the release of the absorbed carbon dioxide for further treatment and/or sequestering. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the carbonic anhydrase polypeptides and host cells capable of expressing them. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009652 | HIGHLY STABLE BETA-CLASS CARBONIC ANHYDRASES USEFUL IN CARBON CAPTURE SYSTEMS - The present disclosure relates to β-class carbonic anhydrase polypeptides having improved properties including increased thermostability and/or stability in the presence of amine compounds, ammonia, or carbonate ion. The present disclosure also provides formulations and uses of the polypeptides for accelerating the absorption of carbon dioxide from a gas stream into a solution as well as for the release of the absorbed carbon dioxide for further treatment and/or sequestering. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the carbonic anhydrase polypeptides and host cells capable of expressing them. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009646 | CHEMICALLY MODIFIED CARBONIC ANHYDRASES USEFUL IN CARBON CAPTURE SYSTEMS - The present disclosure relates to chemically modified carbonic anhydrase polypeptides and soluble compositions, homogenous liquid formulations comprising them. The chemically modified carbonic anhydrase polypeptides have improved properties relative to the same carbonic anhydrase polypeptide that is not chemically modified including the improved properties of increased activity and/or stability in the presence of amine compounds, ammonia, or carbonate ion. The present disclosure also provides methods of preparing the chemically modified polypeptides and methods of using the chemically modified polypeptides for accelerating the absorption of carbon dioxide from a gas stream into a solution as well as for the release of the absorbed carbon dioxide for further treatment and/or sequestering. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009640 | FATTY ALCOHOL FORMING ACYL REDUCTASES (FARS) AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - The present disclosure provides methods useful for producing fatty alcohol compositions from recombinant host cells. The disclosure further provides variant fatty acyl-CoA reductase (FAR) enzymes, polynucleotides encoding the variant FAR enzymes, and vectors and host cells comprising the same. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009631 | VARIANT ENDOGLUCANASES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention provides variants of the | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120003703 | CELLOBIOHYDROLASE VARIANTS - The invention relates to recombinant expression of variant forms of C1 CBH1a and homologs thereof, having improved thermostability, low-pH tolerance, specific activity and other desirable properties. Also provided are methods for producing ethanol and other valuable organic compounds by combining cellobiohydrolase variants with cellulosic materials. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110294170 | Pentose Fermentation By a Recombinant Microorganism - The present invention provides recombinant nucleic acid constructs comprising a xylose isomerase polynucleotide, a recombinant fungal host cell comprising a recombinant xylose isomerase polynucleotide, and related methods. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110217754 | KETOREDUCTASE POLYPEPTIDES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF (R)-3-HYDROXYTHIOLANE - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize chiral compounds. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110195465 | Compositions and Methods for Producing Stereoisomerically Pure Statins and Synthetic Intermediates Therefor - The present disclosure provides ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, method of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chirally pure compounds, and the chirally pure compounds prepared therewith. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110165670 | Ketoreductases and Uses Thereof - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110159567 | KETOREDUCTASE POLYPEPTIDES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF AZETIDINONE - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110124058 | RECOMBINANT THERMOASCUS AURANTIACUS BETA-GLUCOSIDASE VARIANTS FOR PRODUCTION OF FERMENTABLE SUGARS FROM CELLULOSIC BIOMASS - The present invention provides compositions and methods for the expression of recombinant β-glucosidase variants, as well as their use in the production of fermentable sugars from cellulosic biomass. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110111468 | VARIANT LOVD POLYPEPTIDES AND THEIR USES - The present disclosure provides acyltransferases useful for synthesizing therapeutically important statin compound | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110082055 | REDUCED CODON MUTAGENESIS - Methods and compositions that reduce complexity of libraries of variant biological molecules, that reduce oversampling of these libraries during screening and that improve screening efficiency are provided. Sets of efficient degenerate codon sets are provided that efficiently encode all, or nearly all canonical amino acids. Degenerate oligonucleotides comprising these codons are provided, as are polynucleotide variants. Variant pooling strategies are used during library construction. Logical filtering is applied to select codon sites for mutagenesis, or to select amino acid sets to be incorporated at such sites. Methods for reducing non-optimal oversampling during screening are provided. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110034342 | METHOD OF GENERATING AN OPTIMIZED, DIVERSE POPULATION OF VARIANTS - The disclosure relates to a method of generating a diverse set of variants to screen improved and novel properties within the variant population, a system for creating the diverse set of variants, and the variant peptides. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110029468 | METHOD OF GENERATING AN OPTIMIZED, DIVERSE POPULATION OF VARIANTS - The present disclosure relates to methods of rapidly and efficiently searching biologically-related data space to identify a population set maximally diverse and optimized for sets of desired properties. More specifically, the disclosure provides methods of identifying a diverse, evolutionary separated bio-molecules with desired properties from complex bio-molecule libraries. The disclosure additionally provides digital systems and software for performing these methods. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110000125 | PRODUCTION OF FATTY ALCOHOLS WITH FATTY ALCOHOL FORMING ACYL-COA REDUCTASES (FAR) - The disclosure relates to methods of producing fatty alcohols from recombinant host cells comprising genes encoding heterologous fatty acyl-CoA reductase (FAR) enzymes. The disclosure further relates to FAR enzymes and functional fragments thereof derived from marine bacterium and particularly marine gamma proteobacterium such as | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100317059 | BETA-GLUCOSIDASE VARIANT ENZYMES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention provides variants of the | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100304459 | GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE POLYPEPTIDES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The present invention is directed to glucose dehydrogenase (GDH) polypeptides that have enhanced GDH activity and/or thermostability relative to the backbone wild-type glucose dehydrogenase polypeptide. In addition, the present invention is directed to a polynucleotide that encodes for the GDH polypeptides of the present invention, to nucleic acid sequences comprising the polynucleotides, to expression vectors comprising the polynucleotides operatively linked to a promoter, to host cells transformed to express the GDH polypeptides, and to a method for producing the GDH polypeptides of the present invention. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100298612 | ENGINEERED BIOSYNTHESIS OF FATTY ALCOHOLS - The present disclosure provides a process for the production of long chain fatty alcohols by recombinant host cells expressing one or more heterologous carboxylic acid reductase enzymes useful for the conversion of fatty acids, and derivatives thereof, to long chain fatty alcohols. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100285541 | TRANSAMINASE BIOCATALYSTS - The present disclosure relates to polypeptides having transaminase activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods of using the polypeptides. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100267089 | ENDOGLUCANASES - The present invention relates to variant endoglucanases and particularly endoglucanases having improved properties over wild-type endoglucanase. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100267088 | INHA PROMOTERS - The present invention relates to an isolated DNA sequence having promoter activity and to vectors comprising the DNA sequence. The promoters of the invention are referred to inhA promoters. The invention also relates to a method of producing a protein in a recombinant host cell wherein the host cell comprises a vector comprising an inhA promoter and a coding sequence encoding a protein of interest. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100248312 | Alanine 2,3-aminomutases and related polynucleotides - The present disclosure relates generally to polypeptides having improved alanine 2,3-aminomutase (AAM) activity, the polynucleotides encoding the AAM polypeptides, and expression vectors and host cells for expressing the AAM polypeptides. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100209997 | CARBONIC ANHYDRASE POLYPEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to recombinant carbonic anhydrase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally-occurring wild type carbonic anhydrase and uses thereof for the sequestration of carbon dioxide as well as for the release of carbon dioxide from a composition comprising bicarbonate. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the recombinant carbonic anhydrase enzymes and host cells capable of expressing the recombinant carbonic anhydrase enzymes. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100209981 | TRANSAMINASE POLYPEPTIDES - The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type transaminase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered transaminase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100190218 | ENONE REDUCTASES - The disclosure relates to engineered enone reductase polypeptides having improved properties, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, related vectors, host cells, and methods for making the engineered enone reductase polypeptides. The disclosure also provides methods of using the engineered enone reductase polypeptides for chemical transformations. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100173372 | Recombinant Halohydrin Dehalogenase Polypeptides - The present disclosure provides engineered halohydrin dehalogenase (HHDH) polypeptides having improved enzyme properties as compared to the wild-type HHDH enzyme HheC and other reference engineered HHDH polypeptides. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered HHDH enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered HHDH enzymes, and methods of using the engineered HHDH enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds including chiral epoxides and chiral alcohols. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100173369 | KETOREDUCTASE POLYPEPTIDES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 3-ARYL-3-HYDROXYPROPANAMINE FROM A 3-ARYL-3-KETOPROPANAMINE - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. The engineered ketoreductase polypeptides are optimized for catalyzing the conversion of N-methyl-3-keto-3-(2-thienyl)-1-propanamine to (S)—N-methyl-3-hydroxy-3-(2-thienyl)-1-propanamine. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100167345 | HALOHYDRIN DEHALOGENASES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The present invention relates to novel halohydrin dehalogenase polypeptides and the polynucleotides that encode them. These polypeptides are useful in the production of 4-substituted-3-butyric acid derivatives and vicinal cyano, hydroxyl substituted carboxylic acid esters. The invention also provides related vectors, host cells and methods. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100151534 | KETOREDUCTASE POLYPEPTIDES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A 3-ARYL-3-HYDROXYPROPANAMINE FROM A 3-ARYL-3-KETOPROPANAMINE - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. The engineered ketoreductase polypeptides are optimized for catalyzing the conversion of N,N-dimethyl-3-keto-3-(2-thienyl)-1-ketopropanamine to (S)—N,N-dimethyl-3-hydroxy-3-(2-thienyl)-1-propanamine. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100143968 | PENICILLIN-G ACYLASES - The present disclosure relates to engineered penicillin G acylase (PGA) enzymes having improved properties, polynucleotides encoding such enzymes, compositions including the enzymes, and methods of using the enzymes. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100093560 | COMBINED AUTOMATED PARALLEL SYNTHESIS OF POLYNUCLEOTIDE VARIANTS - The present disclosure relates to methods for efficient synthesis, cloning, transformation and screening of large diverse libraries of polynucleotide variants comprising well-defined nucleotide differences relative to a reference polynucleotide. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100063300 | BIOCATALYTIC PROCESSES FOR THE PREPARATION OF SUBSTANTIALLY STEREOMERICALLY PURE FUSED BICYCLIC PROLINE COMPOUNDS - The present disclosure provides substantially enantiomerically pure heterobicyclic compounds of the following structural formulas, | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100062499 | KETOREDUCTASE POLYPEPTIDES FOR THE STEREOSELECTIVE PRODUCTION OF (4S)-3-[(5S)-5-(4-FLUOROPHENYL)-5-HYDROXYPENTANOYL]-4-PHENYL-1,3-OXAZOLID- IN-2-ONE - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme including the capability of reducing 5-((4S)-2-oxo-4-phenyl(1,3-oxazolidin-3-yl))-1-(4-fluorophenyl)pentane-1,5-dione to (4S)-3-[(5S)-5-(4-fluorophenyl)-5-hydroxypentanoyl]-4-phenyl-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize the intermediate (4S)-3-[(5S)-5-(4-fluorophenyl)-5-hydroxypentanoyl]-4-phenyl-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one in a process for making Ezetimibe. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100055751 | KETOREDUCTASE POLYPEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme including the capability of stereo specifically reducing (R)-2-methylpentanal to (R)-2-methylpentanol. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to produce (R)-2-methylpentanol and related compounds. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100028972 | KETOREDUCTASE POLYPEPTIDES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The present invention is directed to variant polypeptides having enhanced ketoreductase activity and/or thermostability for use in the stereospecific reduction of ketones. In addition, the present invention is directed to polynucleotides that encode the ketoreductase polypeptides, including codon optimized versions of the polynucleotides which provide for enhanced expression in host cells. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to nucleotide constructs, vectors and host cells that are transformed with polynucleotides of the present invention. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20090312196 | METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING POLYNUCLEOTIDE VARIANTS - The present disclosure relates to methods for generating libraries of polynucleotide variants comprising defined nucleotide differences relative to a reference polynucleotide. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090298125 | HALOHYDRIN DEHALOGENASES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The present invention relates to novel halohydrin dehalogenase polypeptides and the polynucleotides that encode them. These polypeptides are useful in the production of 4-substituted-3-butyric acid derivatives and vicinal cyano, hydroxyl substituted carboxylic acid esters. The invention also provides related vectors, host cells and methods. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090298123 | Novel Lipase Genes - New lipase enzymes (both nucleic acids and polypeptides) are provided. Compositions which include these polypeptides, proteins, nucleic acids, recombinant cells, as well as methods involving the enzymes, antibodies to the enzymes, and methods of using the enzymes are also provided. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090191605 | Ketoreductase Polypeptides for the Reduction of Acetophenones - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090162909 | Ketoreductase Polypeptides for the Production of Azetidinone - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090162895 | RIBULOSE, 1,5-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE/OXYGENASE POLYPEPTIDES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The present invention relates to novel ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase polypeptides and the polynucleotides that encode them. The invention also provides related host cells and methods. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090155863 | KETOREDUCTASE POLYPEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090118130 | Structure-activity relationships - The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for screening a plurality of polypeptide variants. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090093031 | Ketoreductase Polypeptides for the Production of (R)-3-Hydroxythiolane - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize chiral compounds. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20080318295 | Ketoreductases and Uses Thereof - The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080248539 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING STEREOISOMERICALLY PURE STATINS AND SYNTHETIC INTERMEDIATES THEREFOR - The present disclosure provides ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, method of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chirally pure compounds, and the chirally pure compounds prepared therewith. | 10-09-2008 |
