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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4397952 | Process for obtaining glucose dehydrogenase and micro-organism therefor The present invention provides a process for obtaining glucose dehydrogenase by culturing a micro-organism in an appropriate nutrient medium and obtaining the enzyme from the cell mass or from the culture medium, wherein the micro-organism cultured is Bac... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4381343 | Determination of antibacterial agents The presence of ଲ-lactam antibiotics in test material such as food, infusions, vaccines, blood for transfusion, body fluids, etc. may be determined by: seeding a nutrient medium with a ଲ-lactamase generating bacterium or spores thereof; applyi... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4350770 | Microbiological process for removing oleaginous material from wastewater and microbiological combination capable of same A process for removing oleaginous materials containing those of animal origin from wastewater comprising treating wastewater containing oleaginous material with a microbial combination of: (a) a microorganism of the strain Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutant SGRR | 09/21/1982 |
| 4288545 | Microbiological process for removing oleaginous material from wastewater and microbiological combination capable of same A process for removing oleaginous materials containing those of animal origin from wastewater comprising treating wastewater containing oleaginous material with a microbial combination of: (a) a microorganism of the strain Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutant SGRR | 09/08/1981 |
| 4210721 | Method for dissolving collagen-containing skin tissues A method for dissolving collagen-containing skin tissue by hydrolyzing said tissue in a first stage in the presence of urea with an alkaline proteinase having an activity optimum between pH 9 and 13, said hydrolysis proceeding in a hydrolysis medium which... | 07/01/1980 |
| 4105804 | Method for separation of bacteria cells from culture broth Bacterial cells are separated from a culture broth by adding thereto a solution of casein or alkali-soluble soybean proteins, said culture broth being maintained at a pH less than 6. Bacteria cells are flocculated to form a protein-bacteria co-precipitate... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4071411 | Antitumor antibiotics aclacinomycins A and B [RD-9187A] New antitumor agents named aclacinomycins A and B, which are anthracycline glycosides and inhibit the growth of various microorganisms e.g., Staphylococcus aureus, Micrococcus flavus, Corynebacterium bovis and inhibit the growth of animal tumors such as l... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4064009 | Novel 3-(oxygenated alkyl)-1,9-dihydroxy and 1-hydroxy-9-keto dibenzo[b,d]p y 1-Hydroxy-9-keto-3-alkyl-dibenzo[b,d]pyrans or 1,9-dihydroxy-3-alkyl-dibenzo[b,d]pyrans are oxygenated on the penultimate carbon of the alkyl side chain by fermentation with a strain of the micro-organism Bacillus cereus.... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4062727 | Process for manufacturing high density cell cultures A process for biosynthetically producing cells in a liquid fermentation media comprised of a carbon source, and a growth medium containing oxygen and other essential cell nutrients, to obtain a biomass for harvesting. The carbon source and each of the oth... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4055468 | Processes for producing physiologically active peptide and its N-acyl derivatives A novel physiologically active peptide Val--X--Ala--X, in which X is 4-amino-3-hydroxy-6-methylheptanoic acid, which is prepared from R--Val--Val--X--Ala--X by the action of a microbial enzyme, N-acyl derivatives thereof which are produced by acylating sa... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4039386 | Method for determining the viable bacteria count of food and a medium for accomplishing the method A method of determining the viable bacterial count of food which comprises incubating said food in a liquified agar medium which contains from 0.005 to 0.1 gram per liter of said liquified agar medium 2, 3, 5-triphenyl tetrazolium chloride as an inhibitor... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4032403 | Process for the production of saccharified starch products wherein maltose is the predominant constituent A process for the production of saccharified starch products in which maltose is the predominant constituent characterized by subjecting a starch hydrolysate simultaneously or successively to the action of an enzyme(s) with a maltotriose-decomposing activ... | 06/28/1977 |
| 3992261 | Method for manufacture of maltose from starch by enzymes co-produced by a single microorganism A microorganism which simultaneously produces ଲ-amylase and dextrin -1,6-glucosidase is cultured. By use of the enzymes thus produced, starch is directly hydrolyzed into maltose in a high yield.... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3972774 | Enzymatic de-esterification of cephalosporin para-nitrobenzyl esters Cephalosporin p-nitrobenzyl esters are de-esterified via an esterase enzyme derived from the genus Bacillus.... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3959081 | Rapid identification of bacteria using chemiluminescence A method for identifying a heme-containing microorganism species through the addition of luminol and hydrogen peroxide to a suspension of the microorganism species, thus causing a light emission, accompanied by a recording of the build-up and decay of the... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3933592 | Method of detecting living microorganisms The presence or absence of living microorganisms is determined by treating a sample containing said microorganisms with an adenosine triphosphate reactive mixture containing luciferin, luciferase and a cation in the presence of oxygen and measuring the li... | 01/20/1976 |
