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20080233621 | Method For Producing Alcohol and Carboxylic Acid Having Optical Activity - It is an object of the present invention to provide an inexpensive and efficient industrial method for obtaining (S)-2-pentanol, (S)-2-hexanol, 1-methylalkyl malonic acid and 3-methyl carboxylic acid at a high optical purity. The present invention provides a method of producing (S)-2-pentanol or (S)-2-hexanol which comprises allowing certain types of microorganisms or transformed cells, a product obtained by treating said microorganisms or cells, a culture solution of said microorganisms or cells, and/or a crude purified product or purified product of a carbonyl reductase fraction obtained from said microorganisms or cells, to act on 2-pentanone or 2-hexanone. | 09-25-2008 |
20080305531 | Compositions and Methods for Making and Modifying Oils - The invention provides novel methods for making or modifying oils, e.g., plant, animal or microbial oils, such as vegetable oils or related compounds, that are low in a particular fatty acid(s), for example, low linoleic oils, low linolenic oils, low palmitic oils, low stearic oils or oils low in a combination thereof. | 12-11-2008 |
20090215136 | PSEUDOMONAS SP, HN-72 AND PURIFICATION METHOD OF 2,6-NAPHTHALENE DICARBOXYLIC ACID USING THE SAME - Provided are a novel microorganism and a method for purifying 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylic acid with high purity using the microorganism. The microorganism is | 08-27-2009 |
20090305367 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING LONG-CHAIN DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS - The present invention particularly discovered strains that are capable of producing a long-chain dicarboxylic acid by culturing microorganisms belonging to | 12-10-2009 |
20100129884 | Process for Producing Fermentation Product from Carbon Sources Containing Glycerol using Corynebacteria - The present invention relates to a method for producing fermentation product from various carbon sources containing glycerol using Corynebacteria. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for producing fermentation product from carbon sources containing glycerol or a part of glycerol with high yield and high productivity, by fermenting Corynebacteria introduced with the foreign gene glpDFK facilitating the use of glycerol and accumulating industrially useful amino acids in the culture medium. | 05-27-2010 |
20100167361 | NON-REVERTIBLE BETA-OXIDATION BLOCKED CANDIDA TROPICALIS - Genetically modified strains of | 07-01-2010 |
20110008857 | Method for Producing Polyhydroxyalkanoate - A method for producing polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), comprising (i) culturing in a culture medium containing a substrate comprising one or more monoaromatic hydrocarbons selected from the group consisting of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, ortho-xylene, meta-xylene, para-xylene and styrene, one or more strains of | 01-13-2011 |
20110014667 | Producing Dicarboxylic Acids Using Polyketide Synthases - The present invention provides for a polyketide synthase (PKS) capable of synthesizing a dicarboxylic acid (diacid). Such diacids include diketide-diacids and triketide-diacids. The invention includes recombinant nucleic acid encoding the PKS, and host cells comprising the PKS. The invention also includes methods for producing the diacids. | 01-20-2011 |
20110053232 | Producing Itaconic Acid in Yeast Using Glycerol as the Substrate - Method for producing itaconic acid in yeast cells using glycerol as the substrate. The yeast cells express cis-aconitic acid decarboxylase and optionally, citrate synthase and/or aconitase at high levels. | 03-03-2011 |
20110070616 | PRODUCTION OF ITACONIC ACID - The invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence encoding an itaconate transporting Major Facilitator Superfamily Transporter (MFST) gene sequence and the protein encoded thereby. Preferably said sequence is the nucleic acid that comprises the sequence of ATEG_09972.1 of | 03-24-2011 |
20110081694 | DICARBOXYLIC ACID PRODUCTION IN EUKARYOTES - The present invention relates to a recombinant eukaryotic microbial cell comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a heterologous enzyme catalysing the conversion from phosphoenolpyruvate to oxaloacetate whereby ATP is generated. The invention further relates to a process for the preparation of a dicarboxylic acid such as succinic acid and fumaric acid, comprising fermenting the eukaryotic microbial cell according to the invention in a suitable fermentation medium. | 04-07-2011 |
20110300594 | PROCESS FOR MAKING LINEAR DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES - This invention provides a process of making a linear dicarboxylic acid of C | 12-08-2011 |
20120021472 | Method for the Production of Glutaconate - The present invention relates to a novel method for the biocatalytic production of unsaturated dicarboxylic acids by cultivating a recombinant microorganism co-expressing a glutaconate CoA-transferase and a 2-hydroxyglutaryl-CoA dehydratase system. The present invention also relates to corresponding recombinant hosts, recombinant vectors, expression cassettes and nucleic acids suitable for preparing such hosts as well as a method of preparing polyamide or polyester copolymers making use of said dicarboxylic acids as obtained by said biocatalytic production method. | 01-26-2012 |
20120045804 | CONVERSION OF HEXURONIC ACID TO HEXARIC ACID - The present invention relates to a method and microbial host strain for converting a hexuronic acid to a hexaric acid. In particular, the invention relates to the con-version of D-galacturonic acid to meso-galactaric acid (mucic acid). The invention also concerns an isolated nucleotide sequence. According to the present method a microbial host strain genetically modified to express uronate dehydrogenase enzyme (EC 1.1.1.203) is contacted with a biomaterial comprising hexuronic acid and the con-version products are recovered. By using the recombinant microorganisms of the present invention it is possible to treat biomaterials comprising hexuronic acids and thereby decrease the amount of hexuronic acids released to the environment. | 02-23-2012 |
20120077237 | BIOLOGICAL METHODS FOR PREPARING ADIPIC ACID - The technology relates in part to biological methods for producing adipic acid and engineered microorganisms capable of such production. | 03-29-2012 |
20120115194 | MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ADIPIC ACID AND OTHER COMPOUNDS - The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having an adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam pathway. The microbial organism contains at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an enzyme in the respective adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam pathway. The invention additionally provides a method for producing adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam. The method can include culturing an adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam producing microbial organism, where the microbial organism expresses at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam pathway enzyme in a sufficient amount to produce the respective product, under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam. | 05-10-2012 |
20120135482 | DICARBOXYLIC ACID FERMENTATION PROCESS - The present invention relates to a process for producing a dicarboxylic acid, comprising fermenting a recombinant fungal cell in a suitable fermentation medium, in the presence of high carbon dioxide concentrations. | 05-31-2012 |
20120164702 | BIOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS OF DIFUNCTIONAL ALKANES FROM CARBOHYDRATE FEEDSTOCKS - Aspects of the invention relate to methods for the production of difunctional alkanes in host cells. In particular, aspects of the invention describe components of genes associated with the difunctional alkane production from carbohydrate feedstocks in host cells. More specifically, aspects of the invention describe metabolic pathways for the production of adipic acid, aminocaproic acid, caprolactam, and hexamethylenediamine via 2-ketopimelic acid. | 06-28-2012 |
20120258510 | VINYL ACID MONOMER RECOVERY - The present disclosure relates to a method for recovering a vinyl acid monomer by providing an aqueous fermentation broth which undergoes microbial fermentation of a nutrient medium containing a carbon source including at least one microorganism to produce a vinyl acid monomer. The method provides a direct overall route to bio-based polymers of the vinyl acid monomer, and in particular, polymers of polyitaconic acid. | 10-11-2012 |
20130095540 | MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ADIPIC ACID AND OTHER COMPOUNDS - The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having an adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam pathway. The microbial organism contains at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an enzyme in the respective adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam pathway. The invention additionally provides a method for producing adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam. The method can include culturing an adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam producing microbial organism, where the microbial organism expresses at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam pathway enzyme in a sufficient amount to produce the respective product, under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce adipate, 6-aminocaproic acid or caprolactam. | 04-18-2013 |
20130288320 | METHODS AND MICROORGANISMS FOR INCREASING THE BIOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS OF DIFUNCTIONAL ALKANES - A method of increasing the production a difunctional alkane in a microorganism that produces a difunctional alkane from alpha-keto acid by increasing the production of homocitrate in the cell relative to a wild-type or parent cell. The production of homocitrate may be obtained by engineering pathways that increase the production of alpha-ketoacid, such as alpha-ketoglutarate. | 10-31-2013 |
20140120593 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING USEFUL CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE FROM TEREPHTHALIC ACID POTASSIUM SALT - TPA-DHD can be produced by using, as a raw material, terephthalic acid salt that contains 0.5 times or more and twice or less the amount of potassium based on all of the terephthalic acids contained in the terephthalic acid salt in terms of moles and by using a microorganism expressing terephthalate 1,2-dioxygenase. Further, TPA-DHD can be converted into protocatechuic acid by TPA-DHD dehydrogenase and protocatechuic acid can be converted into gallic acid by para-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase. In addition, by subjecting waste polyesters to heat treatment in an ethylene glycol solvent or 1-butanol solvent containing potassium hydroxide, such polyesters can be efficiently depolymeried, and potassium terephthalate suitable to chemical production by the microorganism can be prepared. | 05-01-2014 |
20140242655 | Bioconversion Process for Producing Nylon-7, Nylon-7, 7 and Polyesters - Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods for the biosynthesis of di- or trifunctional C7 alkanes in the presence of isolated enzymes or in the presence of a recombinant host cell expressing those enzymes. The di- or trifunctional C7 alkanes are useful as intermediates in the production of nylon-7, nylon-7,x, nylon-x,7, and polyesters. | 08-28-2014 |
20140302573 | SEMI-SYNTHETIC TEREPHTHALIC ACID VIA MICROORGANISMS THAT PRODUCE MUCONIC ACID - The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a muconate pathway having at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a muconate pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce muconate. The muconate pathway including an enzyme selected from the group consisting of a beta-ketothiolase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA hydrolase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA transferase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA ligase, a 2-fumarylacetate reductase, a 2-fumarylacetate dehydrogenase, a trans-3-hydroxy-4-hexendioate dehydratase, a 2-fumarylacetate aminotransferase, a 2-fumarylacetate aminating oxidoreductase, a trans-3-amino-4-hexenoate deaminase, a beta-ketoadipate enol-lactone hydrolase, a muconolactone isomerase, a muconate cycloisomerase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA dehydrogenase, a 3-hydroxyadipyl-CoA dehydratase, a 2,3-dehydroadipyl-CoA transferase, a 2,3-dehydroadipyl-CoA hydrolase, a 2,3-dehydroadipyl-CoA ligase, a muconate reductase, a 2-maleylacetate reductase, a 2-maleylacetate dehydrogenase, a cis-3-hydroxy-4-hexendioate dehydratase, a 2-maleylacetate aminoatransferase, a 2-maleylacetate aminating oxidoreductase, a cis-3-amino-4-hexendioate deaminase, and a muconate cis/trans isomerase. Other muconate pathway enzymes also are provided. Additionally provided are methods of producing muconate. | 10-09-2014 |
20140349355 | POLYCARBOXYLIC ACID EXTRACTION - The invention pertains to method for recovering polycarboxylic acid from an aqueous mixture including the steps of: providing an aqueous mixture including polycarboxylic acid and at least 5 wt. % dissolved halide salt, based on the total weight of water and dissolved material in the aqueous mixture; extracting the polycarboxylic acid from the aqueous mixture into a first organic liquid including an organic solvent selected from the group consisting of ketones and ethers, thereby obtaining an organic polycarboxylic acid solution and an aqueous waste liquid including the halide salt; and extracting the polycarboxylic acid from the organic carboxylic acid solution into an aqueous liquid, thereby obtaining an aqueous polycarboxylic acid solution and a second organic liquid. The method according to the invention allows a combined purification and concentration step for feed solutions of polycarboxylic acids. | 11-27-2014 |
20150087035 | BIOLOGICAL METHODS FOR PREPARING ADIPIC ACID - The technology relates in part to biological methods for producing adipic acid and engineered microorganisms capable of such production. | 03-26-2015 |
20160046967 | ENHANCED ITACONIC ACID PRODUCTION IN ASPERGILLUS WITH INCREASED LAEA EXPRESSION - Fungi, such as | 02-18-2016 |
20160060660 | BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION OF ITACONIC ACID - The present invention provides a novel method and means of producing itaconic acid based on the use of the mammalian Immune response gene 1 (Irg1) and variants to express an enzyme which converts cis-aconitic acid to itaconic acid. The method includes cultivation a host cell comprising the Igr1 gene or variants thereof and obtaining itaconic acid. | 03-03-2016 |
20160160244 | Microorganisms Engineered to Produce Phenol and Its Derivatives - Novel methods for the in vivo production of phenol from renewable substrates using a recombinant microorganism (FIG. | 06-09-2016 |
20180023061 | CHIMERIC ENZYMES FOR CONVERSION OF LIGNIN-DERIVED CHEMICALS | 01-25-2018 |