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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6936447 | Autoinducer molecule Autoinducer molecules, e.g., N-(3-oxododecanoyl)homoserine lactone, for Pseudomonas aeruginosa are described. The molecules regulate gene expression in the bacterium. Therapeutic compositions and therapeutic methods involving analogs and/or inhibitors of the ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6833259 | ‘Pseudomonas stutzeri’ strain and process for preparation of xylanase The present invention relates to a novel xylanase producing bacteria, Pseudomonas stutzeri deposited at the MCMRD, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa 403004, India and having the assession number MCMRD-AB-001 and also deposited at the Agricul... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6596520 | Immobilizing lipase by adsorption from a crude solution onto nonpolar polyolefin particles Immobilized lipase is prepared by adsorbing lipase from a crude lipase solution onto polyolefin particles such as polypropylene particles which are nonpolar. The crude solution may be a cell-free culture broth. Lipase sources include Pseudomonas burkholde... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6589771 | Methods for arousing dormant bacteria A method for arousing dormant bacteria. The method comprises inducing diffusion of intracellular solutes from dormant bacteria and then allowing an adjustment period for a length of time sufficient to initiate arousal. The decrease in intracellular osmola... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6492147 | Method for producing microbial polyester A method for producing a microbial polyester by culturing a microorganism being capable of producing a poly hydroxyalkanoate polyester in a culture medium containing 1-hexene as a sole carbon source.... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6372434 | Methods for reducing the complexity of DNA sequences Genomic or cDNA, or fragments and mixtures thereof, can be screened by generation of subsets and then subjecting the subsets to mismatch scanning procedures. Alternatively, DNA fragments can be generated by cutting with a restriction endonuclease that gen... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6300121 | Method for reducing bioavailability of lead by a lead-sequestering soil bacterium Bioavailability of lead and other heavy metals in the environment may be reduced by addition of microorganisms which sequester lead from the environment in the presence of phosphate. The microorganisms are highly mobile and are, therefore, capable of scav... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6251641 | Treatment for the enhancement of bacterial exopolysaccharide recovery A treatment for enhancing the recovery of exopolysaccharide from bacterial cells is disclosed, which treatment includes adding to a cultivation medium containing said cells an amount, effective for the purpose of an alkylsulfosuccinate surfactant.... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6245735 | Methods and products for treating pseudomonas infection Methods and products for upregulating cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulators are provided, including methods and products for the treatment of P. aeruginosa infection. The products include polysaccharides that interact with the cystic fibros... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6130085 | Recombinant vector containing a sequence of a lipoprotein gene for the expression of nucleotide sequences A recombinant vector for cloning a heterologous nucleotide sequence and/or expressing it and/or transferring it to a cell host. The vector includes, at a site which is not essential for replication, the gene coding for a lipoprotein other than E. coli lip... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6066479 | Treatment for the enhancement of bacterial exopolysaccharide recovery A treatment for enhancing the recovery of exopolysaccharide from bacterial cells is disclosed, which treatment includes adding to a cultivation medium containing said cells an amount, effective for the purpose of an alkylsulfosuccinate surfactant.... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6060287 | Production of oily emulsions mediated by a microbial tenso-active agent The present invention is directed to methods for preparing biosurfactants for use in stabilizing emulsions of high viscosity hydrocarbons such as high viscosity crude oil wherein the biosurfactant is a metabolite of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa (USB-CS1). The r... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6057288 | Autoinducer molecule Autoinducer molecules, e.g., N-(3-oxododecanoyl)homoserine lactone, for Pseudomonas aeruginosa are described. The molecules regulate gene expression in the bacterium. Therapeutic compositions and therapeutic methods involving analogs and/or inhibitors of ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6001610 | Method for the particularly sensitive detection of nucleic acids A method of detecting a target nucleic acid A is disclosed, comprising hybridizing the target nucleic acid A with a probe nucleic acid B which contains a sequence B1 which base pairs with a part of the target nucleic acid A and a sequence B2, cleaving the... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5981210 | Method for determining a presence or absence of a nonparaffinophilic hydrophobic microorganism in a body specimen by using a DNA extraction procedure and a novel DNA extraction procedure The method of the invention involves providing a first receptacle and a second receptacle. The first receptacle contains a sterile aqueous broth and the second receptacle contains an aqueous broth including a carbon source. The method then includes placin... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5900496 | Microbial production of a novel compound 7,10-dihydroxy-8-octadecenoic acid from oleic acid A strain of Pseudomonas Sp. bacterium (NRRL B-18602) has been discovered which is capable of converting oleic acid to the novel compound, 7,10-dihydroxy-8-octadecenoic acid (DOD). The production of DOD is unique in that it involves a hydroxylation at two ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5763233 | Process for the production of δ decalactone This invention provides a process for the production of δ-decalactone by the microbial reduction of massoia lactone, characterized in that a bacterium having the ability to reduce massoia lactone is used as the microorganism. The δ-decalactone produced ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5744321 | Detection of fish spoilage by colorimetry A rapid, on-site method for indicating the degree of spoilage, if any, of finfish by the level of bacteria present therein. A small quantity of flesh is cut from a representative fish and kneaded in a bacterial nutrient broth to extract any bacteria prese... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5705163 | Target-specific, cytotoxic, recombinant pseudomonas exotoxin A target-specific, cytotoxic, recombinant Pseudomonas exotoxin is described. Such toxins are made by inserting specific recognition molecules at specific cloning sites in at least domain III near the carboxyl terminus of the PE molecule. Various modificat... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5688672 | Process for the biotechnological preparation of L-thienylalanines in enantiomerically pure form from 2-hydroxy-3-thienylacrylic acids Process for the biotechnological preparation of L-thienylalanines in enantiomerically pure form from 2-hydroxy-3-thienylacrylic acids L-Thienylalanines are prepared via the hydantoin or the azlactone route. The starting substances used for the biotransformatio... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5672504 | Process for enriching an R,S!-1,2-epoxide in one enantiomer by using microbes to convert one enantiomer to the other or to preferentially open the epoxide ring A microorganism or a preparation thereof is permitted to act on a mixture of enantiomers of an epoxide such as 3-chlorostyrene oxide and the product optically active epoxide is recovered. The microorganism able to produce an optically active (S)-epoxide f... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5591838 | Detection of conversion to mucoidy in pseudomonas aeruginosa infecting cystic fibrosis patients Compositions and methods for detecting the conversion to mucoidy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are disclosed. Chronic respiratory infections with mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa are the leading cause of high mortality and morbidity in cystic fibrosis. The initi... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5523233 | Enzymatic hydrolysis of 3,3-diethyl-4-[(4-carboxy)phenoxy]-2-azetidinone esters The present invention relates to a process for converting a racemic mixture of 3,3-diethyl-4-[(4-carboxy)phenoxy]-2-azetidinone esters into the corresponding (S)-acid using lipase derived from Pseudomonas sp. The process provides the target acid in high e... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5512658 | Pseudomonas exotoxins (PE) and conjugates thereof having lower animal toxicity with high cytocidal activity through substitution of positively charged amino acids Improved Pseudomonas exotoxins of low animal toxicity and high cytocidal activity are described. Substitution of positively charged amino acid residues with an amino acid residue without a positive charge provides markedly changed exotoxins. Conjugation o... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5459067 | Method for producing optically active norborneol by ester hydrolysis A method for producing an optically active norborneol is provided, which includes the step of bringing a microorganism or treated cells thereof into contact with (&#b1;)-exo-norbornane type ester represented by Formula (I), wherein the microorganism is se... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5420022 | Fermentation process for preparing phenylacetic acid using phenylalanine as a starting material Described is a process for preparing phenylacetic acid using phenylalanine as a starting material by means of first culturing one or more organisms from the genus Pseudomonas or from the genus Comamanas or mutants thereof; then intimately contacting the o... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5344769 | Microbiological production of polyesters The invention relates to a microbiological process for the production of polyesters and utilizes bacteria of the Pseudomanas fluorescens rRNA branch according to the phylogenetic classification of De Vos and De Ley. These bacteria are cultured under aerob... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5246843 | Process for preparation of R-(-)-3-halogeno-1,2,-propanediol by treatment with microorganism A process for preparation of R-(-)-3-halogeno-1,2-propanediol which comprises cultivating in a medium containing racemate 3-halogeno-1,2-propanediol a bacterium, which, when cultivated in a medium containing racemate 3-halogeno-1,2-propanediol as a sole c... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5240851 | Lipase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain A new lipase and a new protease, which can be produced by a new Pseudomonas strain, and methods of producing such lipase and protease using said strain, protease, or producing enzymatic additives for detergents whose main active component is the lipase of... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5232850 | Predatory Pseudomonas strain as a control of bacterial and fungal plant pathogens A biologically pure culture of naturally-occurring Pseudomonas strain 679-2 is described. This nonobligate bacterial predator microorganism and its extracellular products are useful for the control of many bacterial and fungal diseases of plants. Whole ce... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5182206 | Pyrimine-producing bacteria A novel pyrimine-producing strain belonging to genus Pseudomonas exhibits the following bacteriological properties: denitrification reaction: negative; assimilation of carbon sources: D-arabinose: positive L-lysine: negative and a novel pyrimine-producing stra... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5143827 | Process for biotechnological upgrading of shale oil A process for biotechnological upgrading of shale oil in selectively removing damaging nitrogen-containing compounds comprising treating the raw shale oil with special microbial cultures having specific ability to degrade the harmful nitrogen-containing c... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5108924 | Pyrimine-producing bacteria A novel pyrimine-producing strain belonging to genus Pseudomonas exhibits the following bacteriological properties: denitrification reaction: negative; assimilation of carbon sources: D-arabinose: positive L-lysine: negative and a novel pyrimine-producing stra... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5084565 | Probes for the specific detection of Escherichia coli and Shigella Nucleic acid probes capable of specifically hybridizing to rRNA of E. coli and Shigella species and not to rRNA of non-E. coli/Shigella are described along with methods utilizing such probes for the specific detection of E. coli and/or Shigella in food an... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5068190 | N-acetylhexosamine-dehydrogenase, process for producing same, method for the quantitative analysis of N-acetylglucosamine or N-acetylgalactosamine using same and kit for use in the quantitative analysis N-Acetylhexosamine-dehydrogenase which takes off hydrogen from N-acetylglucosamine or N-acetylgalactosamine to convert them to N-acetylglucosaminolactone or N-acetylgalactosaminolactone, respectively, and, at the same time, reduces co-enzymes NAD+ | 11/26/1991 |
| 5049499 | Process for biotechnological upgrading of shale oil A process for biotechnological upgrading of shale oil in selectively removing damaging nitrogen-containing compounds comprising treating the raw shale oil with special microbial cultures having specific ability to degrade the harmful nitrogen-containing c... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5013654 | Production of emulsifying agents and surfactants A novel strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, designated as strain SB-1, is capable of growth on hydrocarbon substrates having 10 to 32 or more carbon atoms, during which growth there is secreted into the culture medium an emulsifier which can be recovered an... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4968612 | Continuous fermentation process for aromatic hydrocarbon bioconversion This invention provides a continuous bioconversion process in which a non-growth toluene substrate is bio-oxidized by a specific microbe mutant strain to accumulated extracellular muconic acid at a bioreactor production rate of at least about 5 grams of m... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4966844 | Method for microbial cell killing In processes for recovery of biologically active polypeptides from fermentation cultures of recombinant host organisms, cell death is frequently a prerequisite for isolation processing of the recombinant product outside the fermentation vessel. Disclosed ... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4933281 | Method for producing rhamnose A method for large-scale production of rhamnose and 3-hydroxydecanoic acid is disclosed comprising the steps of growing microorganisms of Pseudomonas sp. capable of production of high levels of rhamnolipid in a defined culture medium containing vegetable ... | 06/12/1990 |
