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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7232666 | Optimized bacterial host strains of 16a Methanotrophic bacterial strains are provided that have been optimized for the production of carotenoid compounds through the down-regulation of one or more of the crtN1, ald, crtN2 and crtN3 genes of the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway. The resulting strains lack p... | 06/19/2007 |
| 6908992 | Methanotrophic carbon metabolism pathway genes and enzymes Genes have been isolated from a Methylomonas sp encoding enzymes in the carbon flux pathway. The genes encode a 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate (KDPGA) and a fructose bisphosphate aldolase (FFBPA), as well as numerous other genes. The genes will be useful i... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6902749 | Kluyveromyces lactis as attenuated starter A process for producing cheese, cheese analogues and cheese-derived products comprises contacting said cheese, analogues or products with a Kluyveromyces lactis cell or an enzyme derived therefrom. ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6869791 | Method for sterilizing transformed cells There is provided a method for sterilizing a transformed microorganism, which is characterized by mixing at a temperature range of 25° C. or higher to less than 35° C. a solution containing a transformed microorganism belonging to Escherichia introduced wit... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6858414 | Multistage process for the preparation of highly pure deferoxamine mesylate salt The present invention provides a purification process whereby deferoxamine B produced by a microorganism and in mixture with other polyhydroxamates produced by the microorganism may be converted into its mesylate salt substantially free of the other polyhydroxamates... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6689601 | High growth methanotropic bacterial strain A high growth methanotrophic bacterial strain capable of growth on a C1 carbon substrate has been isolated and characterized. The strain has the unique ability to utilize both methane and methanol as a sole carbon source and has been demonstrated to posse... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6524842 | Biodegradation of gasoline oxygenates A method for degrading an undesirable ether-based environmental contaminant by contacting the ether with a hydrogen-oxidizing microorganism to convert the ether to innocuous compounds which are environmentally acceptable, including treating the ether-base... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6399385 | Methods for rapid PEG-modification of viral vectors, compositions for enhanced gene transduction, compositions with enhanced physical stability, and uses therefor A rapid method for modifying a viral capsid or envelope protein with a polyethylene glycol (PEG) is described. Also provided are methods of delivering a molecule using the PEG-modified viruses of the invention. Compositions containing the PEG-modified vir... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6379937 | Process for the preparation of a mixture of 19 hydroxyelcosatetraenoic acid and 20 hydroxyeicosatetracnoic acid (10 hete and 20 hete) The present invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of mixture of 19 hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid and 20 hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (19 HETE and 20 HETE) by biotransformation of Arachidonic acid or Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFA) wi... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6114161 | Antitumor preparations A new bacteria species within the genus Streptococcus is disclosed, designated as Streptococcus sp PT DSM 8747. From this bacteria species a lipoteichoic acid LTA can be isolated which has a lipid anchor, galacto-furanosyl-beta-1-3-glycerol with different... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5863882 | Cleaner and sanitizer formulation The formulations of the invention comprise a suspension of a sanitizing composition, bacterial spores, surfactants, a thickening agent, and abrasive particles all contained in aqueous solution. These formulations can be used for cleaning and sanitizing ba... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5599700 | Process for the production of carboxylic acids from alcohols using saccharomyces A process for producing carboxylic acids, in particular furoic, 3-methylthio-propionic and 2-methyl-butyric acids, as well as other short-chained, linear and branched acids consisting of the oxidation, in essentially quantitative yields, of the correspond... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5536645 | Nutritive medium for the culture of microorganism The invention relates to a nutritive medium for the culture of microorganisms, containing alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamine, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5364778 | Copolymer production A microbiological process, and novel bacteria e.g. Alcaligenes eutrophus NCIMB 40124, for use in such a process. The process enables the more efficient production of copolymers comprising hydroxyvalerate and hydroxybutyrate monomer units.... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5200332 | Process for preparation of copolymer Disclosed is a process for the preparation of a copolymer, which comprises propagating cells of a bacterium having a capacity of producing poly-3-hydroxybutyrate mainly at a former stage, synthesizing and accumulating in the cells a copolymer comprising D... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5198362 | Sterile aerobic fermentation process The present invention is directed to a fermentation process and a fermenter, wherein aeration is improved by injecting substantially pure oxygen into culture medium by outside the fermenter means including a venturi located outside the main body of the fe... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5098832 | Isolating medium for identifying the salmonella bacterium The present invention relates to an isolating medium for the identification of the Salmonella bacterium, wherein a polyol metabolizable by Salmonella and a pH indicator reacting to acidification are added to a culture support containing peptones. The pres... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5071762 | Enhancing the flavor of protein products derived from microorganisms The present invention provides a process for the enhancement of the flavor of proteins derived from dried microorganisms comprising a) contacting a fermentation broth containing a suitable viable microorganism culture with a suitable sugar under suitable anero... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5021341 | Antibiotic agent produced by the cultivation of Zalerion microorganism in the presence of mannitol An antibiotic agent produced by the cultivation of Zalerion arboricola which is a cyclic lipopeptide with very high activity against human pathogens and of very low mammalian toxicity and its production and isolation are described.... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5013665 | Method for regenerating deactivated microorganisms The present invention relates a method for reactivating or regenerating the methane oxidizability of a methane-utilizing bacteria which have partly or wholly lost its methane oxidizability by culturing said methane-utilizing bacteria in a specified condit... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4994382 | Process for production of pyrrolo-quinoline quinone There are disclosed a new process for production of pyrrolo-quinoline quinone, comprising culturing a bacterium belonging to the genus Paracoccus, Protaminobacter or Pseudomonas and capable of producing pyrrolo-quinoline quinone in a culture medium to pro... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4985363 | Microorganism capable of growing in 50% or more organic solvent New microorganisms belonging to Pseudomonas putida or Pseudomonas sp., which are isolated from soil and have tolerance to one or more of hydrocarbons, alcohols, ethers, ketones and their derivatives or their mixture. These new microorganisms can be used i... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4981800 | Method for culturing microorganism A method for culturing microorganisms belonging to the genus Pseudomonas or the genus Escherichia and having tolerance to an organic solvent such as any one of hydrocarbons, alcohols, ethers, ketones and their derivatives or their mixture in a medium cont... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4920055 | Conversion of alcohols to aldehydes and hydrogen peroxide by substrate and product tolerant methanol oxidases Disclosed is a process for converting alcohols to aldehydes and hydrogen peroxide through the use of a methanol oxidase enzyme. The process involves introducing a lower alkyl or lower alkylene alcohol, such as methanol, ethanol, or allyl alcohol, as an aq... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4906572 | Method of culturing amino acid racemase-producing microorganism of genus pseudomonas A method of culturing an amino acid racemaseproducing microorganism of the genus Pseudomonas, which comprising culturing said microorganism in a culture medium containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of glycerol, ethanol, tarta... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4894334 | Method of improving the yield of heterologous protein produced by cultivating recombinant bacteria A method for improving the yield of heterologous protein such as ricin A toxin, produced by recombinant bacteria by supplementing the nutrient medium in which the bacteria are grown with an ethanol and/or amino acid mixture during the terminal phase of th... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4855051 | Microbial treatment of wastewater to remove tertiary butyl alcohol The novel bacterial strains Bacillus coagulans ATCC 53595, Arthrobacter globiformis ATCC 53596 and Pseudomonas stutzeri ATCC 53602 are able to catabolize tertiary butyl alcohol and are therefore useful in treating wastewater to remove the compound prior t... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4808534 | Method and apparatus for the microbiological production of single-cell protein Method and apparatus is described for the microbiological production of single-cell protein making use of ethanol as a base material thereby allowing the protein produced to be used for human consumption. The process involves the cultivation of ethanol activat... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4795708 | Novel backteria and single cell protein production therewith Single cell protein (SCP) is produced at high yields from a novel methanol assimilating Methylomonas sp. grown at elevated temperatures in an aerobic bacterial fermentation process.... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4782024 | Fermentation process and fermenter A "pressure-cycle" fermentation process and fermenter wherein an oxygen-enriched gas containing at least 30% by volume oxygen is supplied to the fermenter downcomer and the nutrient supply to the fermenter is such as to allow growth of the culture to cont... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4752564 | Fermentation method and apparatus A process for the production of microbial cells by fermentation of carbonaceous material in a foam fermenter containing an oxygen-enriched nutrient medium. The process uses a source of carbon which is assimilable by the microorganism for the production of... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4752584 | Process for the production of inoculum for anaerobic fermentation of coenzyme B12 A fermentation process is disclosed for the preparation of an inoculum, suitable for batchwise, semicontinuous, or continuous production of coenzyme B12 under septic conditions. The fermentation process begins with a broth consisting of methano... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4713343 | Biodegradation of halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons Contaminating amounts of certain halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons are degraded and removed from water such as drinking water and industrial waste water, by treatment of the water with a microorganism that is effective to metabolize gaseous hydrocarbons ... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4707449 | Pichia pastoris yeast strains of enhanced tryptophan content Mutant Pichia pastoris yeasts which produce relatively high levels of tryptophan. These high tryptophan capability Pichia pastoris mutants, grown on such as methanol or glucose, produce improved amino acid balance single-cell protein product reducing the ... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4652527 | Process for culturing methylophilus methylotrophus This invention provides a process for single cell protein production which involves the culturing of Methylophilus methylotrophus microorganisms by facultative growth on glucose as a carbon and energy source.... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4617274 | Biochemical conversions by yeast fermentation at high cell densities Novel yeasts are disclosed including Pichia pastoris NRRL Y-11430, yeasts having the characteristics of Pichia pastoris NRRL Y-11430, mutants of Pichia pastoris NRRL Y-11430, and strains derived therefrom. Also disclosed are methods of culturing the strai... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4617268 | Process for the preparation of adenosine-5'-triphosphate by fermentation Disclosed in this invention is a process for the preparation of adenosine-5'-triphosphate by means of fermentation, using an adenosine-5-triphosphate-producing bacterium which assimilates methanol.... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4614717 | Process for cultivation of organisms wherein a uniform protein from microorganisms is enzymatically degraded Products which are soluble without opalescence even at pH 3 and which, because of their reproducible composition, are particularly well suited as a source of nitrogen for organisms are obtained by enzymatic degradation of uniform microbial cell aggregates... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4595659 | Fermentation production of ascorbic acid from L-galactonic substrate Processes for the fermentation production of L-ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), and to microorganisms (e.g., Candida Norvegensis MF-56, ATCC 20686) and fermentation media which are specifically adapted for such fermentation.... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4567144 | Method of producing long chain wax esters from ethanol A process for producing wax esters having the general structural formula RCO2 R', where R and R' are radicals selected from the group consisting of CH3 (CH2)a CH.dbd.CH(CH2)b - and CH3... | 01/28/1986 |
