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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8129155 | Microorganisms and methods for conversion of syngas and other carbon sources to useful products A non-naturally occurring microbial organism having an isopropanol, 4-hydroxybutryate, or 1,4-butanediol pathway includes at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an isopropanol, 4-hydroxybutryate, or 1,4-butanediol pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amoun... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8110382 | Process for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequen... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8084238 | Process for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequen... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8071342 | Process for the treatment of methane emissions The invention relates generally to a system and method for the treatment of gaseous emissions comprising methane, and in one specific embodiment, to a system and method for the treatment of emissions through the use of methanotrophic microorganisms. Certain embodime... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8071343 | Process for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequen... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8008052 | Process for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequen... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7981645 | Enzymatic asymmetric decarboxylation of disubstituted malonic acids A process for the stereoselective decarboxylation of malonic acid derivatives with mutated decarboxylases is disclosed. ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7939303 | Process for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequen... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7923225 | Method for the enzymatic production of 2-hydroxy-2-methyl carboxylic acids The present invention relates to a method for the enzymatic production of 2-hydroxy-2-methyl carboxylic acids from 3-hydroxy carboxylic acids, where a 3-hydroxy carboxylic acid is produced in an aqueous reaction solution and/or is added to this reaction solution and... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7741083 | Process for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequen... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7732172 | Process for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequen... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7579176 | Method for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoic acid Embodiments of the invention relate to the microbial production of polyhydroxyalkanoic acids, or polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), from substrates which cannot be used as a source of carbon and/or energy for microbial growth or PHA synthesis and which have microbial and ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7572612 | Method of production of para-hydroxycinnamic acid using a thermostable TAL enzyme A thermostable TAL enzyme was identified from the fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium, which has high activity at temperatures of 40° C. to about 60° C. The enzyme was produced in engineered cells and used for production of para-hydroxycinnamic acid (pHCA) f... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7514245 | Method for producing chiral α-hydroxycarboxylic acids by enzymatic hydrolysis of chiral cyanohydrins The invention relates to a method for producing chiral α-hydroxycarboxylic crystalline acids consisting in transforming cyanhydrins (R) or (S) into α-hydroxycarboxylic acids (R) or (S), respectively by enzymatic hydrolysis in the presence of Rhodococcus erythro... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7507563 | Process for producing 1, 4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoic acid A process for producing 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphtoic acid, comprising initiating the culture of 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoic acid producing bacteria belonging to propionic acid bacteria under anaerobic conditions and culturing the bacteria under aeration into a medium when... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7462470 | Method for the producing vanillic acid and vanillin from waste residue of rice bran oil by fermentation and biotransformation A method for the production of vanillic acid and vanillin from waste residue (niger) of rice bran oil by microbial fermentation and biotransformation is provided. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of hydrolization of ferulic acid esters in wast... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7445917 | Process for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequen... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7405063 | Biooxidation capabilities of sp A bioprocess for producing carboxylic acids, alcohols and aldehydes is provided by culturing Candida sp. in a fermentation medium containing various defined substrates. ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7390647 | Method for producing chiral α-hydroxycarboxylic crystalline acids The invention relates to a method for producing chiral α-hydroxycarboxylic crystalline acids consisting in transforming cyanhydrins (R) or (S) into α-hydroxycarboxylic acids (R) or (S), respectively by enzymatic hydrolysis in the presence of Rhodococcus erythro... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7364884 | Method for producing a hydroxylation catalyst and the use thereof A process for preparing a hydroxylation catalyst by i) embedding a cystochrome P450 monooxygenase in a sol-gel matrix, ii) embedding an enzymatic NADPH-regenerating system in a sol-gel matrix, and combini... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7354746 | Method for producing optically active IHOG and monatin The present invention relates to a method for producing optically active IHOG, which can in turn be used for the production of monatin. The present invention further relates to a method for producing optically active monatin, and an aldolase which can be used in the... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7335502 | Chlorohydrin and hydroxycarboxylic ester asymmetric hydrolase gene The present invention is to provide a gene having asymmetric hydrolase activity which is useful for synthesis of an optically active carboxylic acid, its antipode ester, and lactone, and a hydroxycarboxylic ester asymmetric hydrolase enzyme (EnHCH) derived from E... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7329519 | Glucose dehydrogenase β subunit and DNA encoding the same A DNA fragment encoding a β subunit is obtained by inverse PCR using primers designed based on the nucleotide sequnece of a N-terminal signal sequence region of a GDH β subunit derived from Burkholderia cepacia KS1 strain. ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7317065 | Method for producing highly functional, hyper branched polyester by means of enzymatic esterification The present invention provides a highly functional hyperbranched polyester which may be obtained by a process which comprises reacting a reaction solution containing solvent and reactants in the presence of an enzyme at a temperature above 60° C. and a pressure abo... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7300771 | Process to produce 19-nor-10β-carboxylic acids by fungal oxidation of 6-substituted-Δ6-pregnanes A process to produce 19-nor-10β-carboxylic acids by fungal oxidation of 6-substituted-Δ6-pregnanes is disclosed. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300775 | Methods for producing α-substituted carboxylic acids using nitrilases and strecker reagents In accordance with the present invention there are provided methods for producing enantiomerically pure α-substituted carboxylic acids, such as, for example, α-amino acids and α-hydroxy acids, said method comprising combining an aldehyde or ketone with a cyanide ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297800 | Process of producing glutamate derivatives The present invention relates to a process for producing efficiently glutamic acid derivatives (including salts thereof) such as monatin by converting a substituted α-keto acid of formula (1) into a glutamic acid derivative of formula (2) in the presence of an enzy... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7241611 | Methods for synthesis of holo-photoactive yellow protein The present invention is generally related to recombinant DNA technology and more particularly to DNA strands useful for the production of parahydroxycinnamic acid and photoactive yellow protein in a suitable host expression system. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238514 | Diterpene-producing unicellular organism The present invention is directed to a unicellular organism system, such as a yeast, for producing geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate and a diterpene in vivo. The yeast cell preferably comprises an inducible nucleic acid sequence encoding geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synt... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7229803 | Reaction of (di)amines in the presence of a lysine oxidase and of a reducing agent The invention relates to methods for reacting (di)amines as substrates in the presence of a lysine oxidase arid a reducing agent, resulting in alcohols, diols or cyclic secondary amines. In a particular embodiment, the invention is directed to methods of preparing c... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7229806 | Microbial conversion of glucose to para-hydroxystyrene An in vivo method for the production of pHS via a recombinant host cell is disclosed. The host cell expresses at least one gene encoding a polypeptide having para-hydroxycinnamic acid decarboxylase activity in combination with either at least one gene encoding a pol... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7223588 | Microorganisms and methods for overproduction of DAHP by cloned Pps gene Genetic elements comprising expression vectors and a gene coding for phosphoenol pyruvate synthase is utilized to enhance diversion of carbon resources into the common aromatic pathway and pathways branching therefrom. The overexpression of phosphoenol pyruvate synt... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220561 | Processes for enhanced production of pantothenate The present invention features improved methods for producing pantoate and pantothenate utilizing microorganisms having modified pantothenate biosynthetic enzyme activities. In particular, the invention features methods for reducing byproduct formation and increasin... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7199194 | Two component coating compositions containing highly branched copolyester polyol This invention relates to rapid curing coating compositions that are particularly useful for automotive OEM and refinish applications. The coating composition includes a binder component that contains a novel highly branched copolyester polyol, and a crosslinking co... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198927 | Enzymatic production of glycolic acid Various methods are provided for the enzymatic production of glycolic acid from glycolonitrile. These methods include: 1) use of Acidovorax facilis 72W nitrilase mutants having improved nitrilase activity for converting glycolonitrile to glycolic acid, and 2)... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192751 | Biosynthesis of amorpha-4,11-diene Methods for synthesizing amorpha-4,11-diene synthase from isopentenyl pyrophosphate are provided. A first method comprises introducing into a host microorganism a plurality of heterologous nucleic acid sequences, each coding for a different enzyme in the mevalonate ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7157256 | Method for producing para-hydroxystyrene and other multifunctional aromatic compounds using two-phase extractive fermentation Methods are provided for the production and recovery of multifunctional aromatic compounds from a fermentation medium. Preferred multifunctional aromatic compounds include para-hydroxycinnamic acid (pHCA), cinnamic acid (CA), and para-hydroxystyrene (pHS). The multi... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7135556 | NPC1L1 (NPC3) and methods of use thereof We claim an isolated polypeptide having ability of binding with cholesterol. Said polypeptide is useful for investigating regulation of intestinal cholesterol absorption and cholesterol levels. Also, we claim a composition comprising said polypeptide bound to choles... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135540 | Polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer including unit having bromo group in side chain and method for producing the same The invention provides a polyhydroxyalkanoate having a bromo group in a unit and being thermally stable and capable of arbitrarily controlling physical properties, and a producing method thereof. According to the invention, there are provided a polyhydroxyalkanoate ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135316 | having accession No. PTA 1579 and its use to produce polyhydroxybutyrate The present invention provides a novel genetically modified Escherichia coli JM109 bearing accession number PTA 1579, containing the gene coding for poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate synthesis and a method of using this bacterium to produce poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate ... | 11/14/2006 |
