Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
435100000 | Disaccharide | 30 |
20080206822 | Method for Improving the Thermostability of Sucrose Phosphorylase (Sp) - A sucrose phosphorylase (SP) having improved thermostability obtained by modifying a natural SP and a method for producing the SP having improved thermostability is provided. This SP having improved thermostability has an amino acid residue which is different from that of the natural sucrose phosphorylase, in at least one position selected from the group consisting of a position corresponding to position 14, a position corresponding to position 29 and a position corresponding to position 44 in motif sequence 1; a position corresponding to position 7, a position corresponding to position 19, a position corresponding to position 23 and a position corresponding to position 34 in motif sequence 2; and a position corresponding to position 19 in motif sequence 3, and wherein the enzyme activity of the SP having improved thermostability at 37° C., after heating the SP having improved thermostability in 20 mM Tris buffer (pH 7.0) at 55° C. for 20 minutes, is 20% or more of enzyme activity of the SP having improved thermostability at 37° C. before heating. | 08-28-2008 |
20080299623 | ENZYME CATALYSIS IN THE PRESENCE OF IONIC LIQUIDS - The invention relates to the implementation of enzyme-catalysed reactions in the presence of ionic liquids. | 12-04-2008 |
20090053776 | ENZYMIC PRODUCTION OF NEOAGAROBIOSE - The present invention is directed to methods and systems of producing neoagarobiose, useful in whitening melanoma cells and in cosmetics, using polypeptides having neoagarobiosebiohydralase activity, including Aga86E from | 02-26-2009 |
20090286289 | Production of Hyaluronate Unsaturated Disaccharides and its Application - The present invention includes cell based systems and methods for production of hyaluronate unsaturated disaccharide. The methods and systems include the use of a host cell that produces hyaluronic acid transformed with an expression vector encoding a recombinant chondroitinase AC. Expression of chondroitinase AC in the presence of native hyaluronic acid results in digestion of hyaluronic acid into multiple units of hyaluronate unsaturated disaccharide, which can then be isolated. | 11-19-2009 |
20100009413 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES ENCODING ALTERNANSUCRASE - Nucleic acid molecules encoding an alternansucrase are provided. Moreover, vectors, host cells and plant cells transformed by the herein-described nucleic acid molecules and plants containing them are provided. Furthermore, methods are described for preparing transgenic plants which synthesize the carbohydrate alternan, because of the insertion of nucleic acid molecules encoding an alternansucrase. Moreover, methods for preparing alternan and products resulting from them are provided. | 01-14-2010 |
20100216195 | Enzymatic Production of Sucrose-6-Ester, an Intermediate for the Manufacturing of Halo Sugars... - A novel process is described for production of 6-acyl-sucrose comprising enzymatic acylation of sucrose by an esterifying agent including an organic acid in presence of a lipase or an esterase in a solvent in which the enzyme used is stable. Chlorinated sucrose, the high intensity sweetener trichlorogalactosucrose can be prepared by chlorination and deacylation of 6-acyl sucrose prepared by the process of this invention. | 08-26-2010 |
20110003345 | Production and Secretion of Glucose in Photosynthetic Prokaryotes (Cyanobacteria) - The present invention includes compositions and methods for making and using an isolated cyanobacterium that includes a portion of an exogenous bacterial cellulose operon sufficient to express bacterial cellulose, whereby the cyanobacterium produces extracellular glucose. The compositions and methods of the present invention may be used as a new global crop for the manufacture of cellulose, CO | 01-06-2011 |
20110008849 | NOVEL LACTOSE PHOSPHORYLASE ENZYMES - The present invention relates to novel lactose phosphorylase enzymes and the uses thereof. More specifically, the invention relates to lactose phosphorylase enzymes created by mutation of a cellobiose phosphorylase from | 01-13-2011 |
20110045544 | Treatment of Cellulosic Material and Enzymes Useful Therein - 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. | 02-24-2011 |
20110059492 | POLYPEPTIDES HAVING ALPHA-AMYLASE ACTIVITY AND POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING SAME - The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having alpha-amylase 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. | 03-10-2011 |
20110143402 | DEGRADATION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC MATERIAL - The present invention describes a method for the treatment of lignocellulosic material which method comprises contacting said lignocellulosic material with a composition comprising two or more enzyme activities, said enzyme activities being cellulase and/or hemicellulase activities, wherein the pH during the treatment is about 4.5 or lower, and the treatment is carried out at a dry matter content of 15% or more. | 06-16-2011 |
20110217740 | METHODS, MICROORGANISMS, AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PLANT BIOMASS PROCESSING - Disclosed herein are methods of degrading plant biomass, and microorganisms and polypeptides used in such methods, hi certain embodiments, the methods include growing | 09-08-2011 |
20110236935 | OXIDATION PROCESS - A method of oxidising a saccharide, by contacting the saccharide with an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) enzyme selected from a quinone redox cofactor-dependent ADH, a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD | 09-29-2011 |
20110262975 | ENGINEERED CO2 FIXING MICROORGANISMS PRODUCING CARBON-BASED PRODUCTS OF INTEREST - The present disclosure identifies pathways and mechanisms to confer production of carbon-based products of interest such as ethanol, ethylene, chemicals, polymers, n-alkanes, isoprenoids, pharmaceutical products or intermediates thereof in photoautotrophic organisms such that these organisms efficiently convert carbon dioxide and light into carbon-based products of interest, and in particular the use of such organisms for the commercial production of ethanol, ethylene, chemicals, polymers, n-alkanes, isoprenoids, pharmaceutical products or intermediates thereof. | 10-27-2011 |
20120009631 | VARIANT ENDOGLUCANASES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention provides variants of the | 01-12-2012 |
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 |
20120115192 | METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF FERMENTABLE SUGARS FROM BIOMASS - A process for production of fermentable sugars from biomass using multi-enzyme multi-step system is provided herein. The process disclosed in the present invention provides high yielded sugars in less time period. The multi-enzyme system disclosed in the present invention converts celluloses, hemicelluloses and/or mixture thereof to fermentable sugar with higher efficiency and better economics than the process known in the prior art. Cellulose and hemicelluloses fractions derived from natural sources such as any lignocellulosic biomass are saccharified in a shortened time with higher conversion rates of intermediates with modified enzymatic compositions/groups of the Multi-enzyme system to enhance the rate thus providing an economical cellulose and hemicellulose saccharification process. | 05-10-2012 |
20120270278 | 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. | 10-25-2012 |
20130023015 | Useful halophilic, thermostable and ionic liquids tolerant cellulases - The present invention provides for an isolated or recombinant polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 70% identity with the amino acid sequence of a | 01-24-2013 |
20130115660 | METHOD OF PRODUCING SUGAR - Provided herein is a transgenic bacteria engineered to accumulate carbohydrates, for example disaccharides. Also provided is a photobioreactor for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms comprising a non-gelatinous, solid cultivation support suitable for providing nutrients and moisture to photosynthetic microorganisms and a physical barrier covering at least a portion of the surface of the cultivation support. Devices for the large scale and continuous cultivation of photosynthetic microorganisms incorporating photobioreactors and methods of use are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of producing fermentable sugar from photosynthetic microorganisms using a photobioreactor of the invention. | 05-09-2013 |
20130157319 | Method for Simultaneous Fermentation of Pentose and Hexose - The present invention relates to a method for simultaneous fermentation of pentose and hexose. The present invention modifies the metabolic pathways of a target microorganism in order to enable the target microorganism to rapidly metabolize pentose and hexose at the same time. This present invention simplified the fermentation process, decreased the cost, and increased the efficiency of the fermentation process. | 06-20-2013 |
20130183724 | Method for Producing Sugar - Provided is a method for efficiently producing sugar and simultaneously efficiently producing ethanol. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism having no sucrose-degrading enzyme and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism in the presence of a sucrose-degrading enzyme inhibitor and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution. | 07-18-2013 |
20130230889 | ULVAN LYASE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND USES THEREOF - The present invention notably relates to ulvan lyases, to nucleic acid sequences coding for these ulvan lyases, to vectors comprising these coding sequences, to a method of manufacturing these ulvan lyases, as well as to a method of degrading ulvans using these ulvan lyases and applicable applications to the degradation products of the ulvans. The ulvan lyases of the present invention, or ulvanolytic protein, are notably defined as proteins of 30 or 46 kD comprising the following four sequences in their peptide sequence: PNDPNLK, LLEVGNTGTFGSTGS, DLANPDNV and WNLPE. | 09-05-2013 |
20140287471 | VARIANT CBH I POLYPEPTIDES WITH REDUCED PRODUCT INHIBITION - 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. | 09-25-2014 |
20140349348 | Mutant microorganisms to synthesize colanic acid, mannosylated and/or fucosylated oligosaccharides - The present invention relates to mutated and/or transformed microorganisms for the synthesis of various compounds. More specifically, the present invention discloses microorganisms mutated in the genes encoding for the regulators ArcA and IclR. The latter mutations result in a significant upregulation of the genes that are part of the colanic acid operon. Hence, said microorganisms are useful for the synthesis of any compound being part of the colanic acid pathway such as GDP-fucose, GDP-mannose and colanic acid, and/or, can be further used—starting form GDP-fucose as a precursor—to synthesize fucosylated oligosaccharides or—starting from GDP-mannose as a precursor—to synthesize mannosylated oligosaccharides. In addition, mutations in the genes coding for the transcriptional regulators ArcA and IclR lead to an acid resistance phenotype in the exponential growth phase allowing the synthesis of pH sensitive molecules or organic acids. | 11-27-2014 |
20150344856 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF OLIGOSACCHARIDES FROM LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS - A process for producing oligosaccharides from lignocellulosic biomass, having the following steps:
| 12-03-2015 |
20160076014 | PROCESSING BIOMASS - Provided herein are methods for processing biomass materials that are disposed in one or more structures or carriers, e.g., a bag, a shell, a net, a membrane, a mesh or any combination of these. Containing the material in this manner allows it to be readily added or removed at any point and in any sequence during processing. | 03-17-2016 |
20160160251 | Optimized Method For Producing A Composition Containing Isomaltulose - The present invention relates to a method for producing a composition containing isomaltulose from a substrate containing sucrose. | 06-09-2016 |
20160186153 | B-1,3-GLUCANASE, POLYNUCLEOTIDE, RECOMBINANT VECTOR, TRANSFORMANT, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR B-1,3- GLUCANASE, ENZYME PREPARATION, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR PARAMYLON HAVING REDUCED MOLECULAR WEIGHT - A β-1,3-glucanase that exhibits decomposition activity with respect to paramylon derived from the genus | 06-30-2016 |
20160186223 | PRODUCTION OF OLIGOSACCHARIDES - The present invention relates to the use of one or more glycosidases in the process for the production and/or purification of a produced desired oligosaccharide. The process is preferably a microbial fermentation process using a host microorganism, which may also comprise nucleic acids expressing sugar catabolic pathway proteins suitable for the degradation of saccharides otherwise hindering the purification of the desired oligosaccharide. | 06-30-2016 |