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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7220571 | strains which over-produce L-threonine and processes for the production of L-threonine by fermentation The present invention relates to the fields of microbiology and microbial genetics. More specifically, the invention relates to novel bacterial strains and processes employing these strains for the fermentative production of amino acids such as threonine. ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7208317 | In Vitro mutagenesis, phenotyping, and gene mapping Cellular libraries useful for in vitro phenotyping and gene mapping. In a representative approach, a method for preparing a homozygous cellular library includes the steps of providing a heterozygous cellular library comprising a plurality of isolated parent cells; i... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7132285 | Apoptotic entities for use in treatment of neurodegenerative and other neurological disorders Treatment and/or prophylaxis, in mammalian patients, of neurodegenerative and other neurological medical disorders is effected by administering to the patient effective amounts of apoptotic bodies and/or apoptotic cells, preferably those derived from the patient's o... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7105292 | Screening methods used to identify compounds that modulate a response of a cell to ultraviolet radiation exposure The cellular response to ultraviolet radiation exposure has been characterized on the molecular level through the use of high density gene array technology. Nucleic acid molecules and protein molecules, the expression of which are repressed or induced in response to... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7067127 | GIcNAc phosphotransferase of the lysosomal targeting pathway The present invention provides nucleotide and amino sequences of the lysosomal targeting pathway enzyme GlcNAc-phosphotransferase, methods of producing and methods of purifying this enzyme. ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6843961 | Reduction of contaminants in blood and blood products using photosensitizers and peak wavelengths of light Methods and apparatuses are provided for inactivation of pathogens in fluids containing blood products. Preferred methods include the steps of adding an effective, nontoxic amount of a photosensitizer such as riboflavin to the blood product and exposing the fluid to... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6835867 | Allelic series of genomic modifications in cells The present invention relates to methods of producing an allelic series of modifications in genes of interest in a cell. In particular, the invention provides methods for using nucleic acid sequence-modifying agents (e.g., chemicals, electromagnetic radiation, etc.)... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6455257 | Designer diseases An apparatus suitable for making a designer disease is disclosed. The apparatus comprises first, second, and third containers, each having two sections, I and II, separated by a semipermeable material through which a microbe can pass but cells from target... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6413765 | Genetically modified lactic acid bacteria having modified diacetyl reductase activities Genetically modified lactic acid bacteria having a reduced or lacking or enhanced diacetyl reductase activity, acetoin reductase activity and/or butanediol dehydrogenase activity are provided. Such bacteria are used in starter cultures in the production o... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6204006 | Microbial strains producing sphingolipid bases Microbial strains capable of producing enhanced levels of sphingosine, dihydrosphingosine, phytosphingosine and/or derivatives thereof are disclosed. Additionally, there are disclosed methods based on mutagenesis, or other selection techniques, whereby su... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6204058 | Treatment of autoimmune diseases An autoimmune vaccine is provided for administration to human patients to alleviate the symptoms of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. The vaccine comprises an aliquot of the patient's blood, containing, inter alia, leukocytes having upregu... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6132989 | Methods and compositions for enhanced stability of non-adenoviral DNA The invention provides compositions of a non-adenoviral vector containing a polynucleotide sequence encoding adenoviral pTP operationally linked domain. The invention also provides compositions of an adenoviral pTP binding domain. The invention also provi... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5928866 | Method for preparing mutant genes This invention provides A method for preparing mutant genes, which comprises the steps of constructing a recombinant plasmid DNA by inserting a gene fragment into a plasmid DNA having a unidirectional origin, introducing the recombinant plasmid DNA into h... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5856141 | Process for manufacturing cyclosporin a by highly productive fusant strain The present invention relates to a process for making a highly productive fusant of Tolypocladium inflatum, a producing strain of cyclosporin A with immunosuppressive properties wherein the selection of the fusant KD461, designed to produce a large amount... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5849539 | Thymidine kinase-lacking ouabain-resistant chicken hybridoma The thymidine kinase-lacking hybridoma of the invention has resistance to oaubain and an Ig-producing ability and is formed by fusing a chicken B lymphoblast cell with an immunized chicken spleen cell. The hybridoma can be used as parental cell line for c... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5834182 | Method for increasing transduction of cells by adeno-associated virus vectors This invention includes methods for increasing the efficiency of transduction of cells, including non-dividing cells, by recombinant AAV vectors. The methods utilize agents that alter certain aspects of DNA metabolism, more specifically, that affect DNA s... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5804435 | Method for obtaining organic solvent-resistant microorganisms and organic solvent-resistant microorganisms obtainable by the method The present invention provides a method for obtaining organic solvent resistant microorganisms which comprises subjecting a microbial parent strain to mutagenesis and then to selective cultivation in the presence of 0.1% to 10% by volume (v/v) of concentr... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5736383 | Preparation of Pichia methanolica auxotrophic mutants Methods for preparing Pichia methanolica cells having auxotrophic mutations are disclosed. The methods comprise the steps of (a) exposing P. methanolica cells to mutagenizing conditions, (b) culturing the cells from step (a) in a rich medium to allow muta... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5591615 | Mutant of Geotrichum candidum which produces novel enzyme system to selectively hydrolyze triglycerides A mutant fungal strain, namely G. candidum NRRL Y-552, mutant known as Henkel 9-2-3-9 produces a lipase called "UNLipase" providing a selectivity of 25:1 for oleic acid over palmitic acid by the assay procedure employed. UNLipase has a temperature range o... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5578464 | E. coli secretory strains Strains of E. coli are provided which are capable of secreting heterologous recombinant proteins through the outer cell wall and directly into the culture medium. Methods are also provided for making and identifying such strains, and for using them to mak... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5538890 | Self-delimiting fungal mutants, bioherbicidal compositions thereof, method of preparing thereof and method of using thereof for weed control A broad spectrum biological herbicide comprises a mammal-sparing bioherbicide fungal mutant, e.g., a S. sclerotiorum mutant, of limited survival time and geographical dissemination characteristics under standard agricultural conditions. The invention also... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5506124 | Process for preparing glucanase resistant yeast mutants Three dimensional glucan matrix compositions are prepared by separating growing yeast from its growth medium, subjecting the yeast with cell walls intact to an alkali material, thereby extracting whole glucan particles having an intact cell wall structure... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5217888 | Yeast with high content of arginine The present invention relates to yeast with a high arginine content which belongs to Kluyveromyces polysporus and has resistance to ethionine.... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5210033 | Process for preparing and selecting hyperproducing microorganism strains used for the process for producing streptovaricin C Disclosed is a method for selecting a mutant strain belonging to the genus Streptomyces which is a hyper-producer of Streptovaricin C superior to those know heretofore. This is accomplished by first subjecting a natural strain of Streptomyces spectabilis ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5079154 | Mutant resistant to cell membrane synthesis inhibitor and process for preparing the same A mutant of an extracellular enzyme-producing microorganism belonging to genus Bacillus, which is resistant to a cell membrane synthesis inhibitor, including vancomycin and ristocetin, is disclosed. The cell membrane synthesis inhibitor-resistant mutant c... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4935366 | Method of obtaining cellulase deficient strains of white-rot fungi A method is described of obtaining cellulase deficient strains which have great ability to degrade lignin at the same time. The method comprises crossing a homokaryotic cellulase deficient mutant of a white-rot fungus having a full sexual cycle with a hom... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4859594 | Microorganisms for biodegrading toxic chemicals This invention relates to novel microorganisms separated from natural environments and purified and genetically modified, process for immobilizing these microorganisms by affixing then to substrates, the biocatalytic compositions formed by these microorga... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4851348 | Biologically pure escherichia coli cell line which is a deoR- mutant and which is more transformation efficient with foreign plasmids than deoR+ escherichia coli cell lines, processes for obtaining these cell lines, methods of use A method for obtaining E. coli cell lines which carry the deoR mutation is described, as well as the cell lines themselves. These cell lines are useful in cell transfection and transformation, as they transfect transform at much higher frequencies than th... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4751348 | Nicotiana plants with both altered polyamine levels and flower structures and method for obtaining these plants Plant cell lines with altered flower structures, and altered plant male and/or female sterility/fertility, and altered polyamine synthesis have been isolated using a UV mutagenizing light, polyamine synthesis inhibitors, and growth in the dark. Some of th... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4568644 | Fermentation method producing ethanol Ethanol is the major end product of an anaerobic, thermophilic fermentation process using a mutant strain of bacterium Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum. This organism is capable of converting hexose and pentose carbohydrates to ethanol, acetic and lactic... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4560662 | Streptomyces antibioticus ATCC 31771 and process for obtaining same The fermentation of a substrate selected among erythronolide B, erythronolide A and erythronolide A oxime with a novel mutant, Streptomyces antibioticus ATCC 31771, obtained from an industrial stock for the production of oleandomycin, said novel mutant be... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4540662 | Semisynthetic macrolidic antibiotics, intermediate compounds for their preparation and related pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds for their preparation and related pharmaceutical compositions containing them From the fermentation carried, out with mutants blocked in the synthesis respectively of erythromycin and of oleandomycin, namely Streptomyces erythreus ATCC 31772 and Streptomyces antibioticus ATCC 31771, using as the substrate a derivative of erythronol... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4492755 | Process for isomerizing L-mannose to L-fructose Process for preparing L-fructose from L-mannose by contacting L-mannose with L-mannose isomerase produced by a mutant microorganism selected from the group consisting of the genera Escherichia, Lactobacillus, and Klebsiella cultivated in the absence of an... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4473644 | Acid stable protease from mutants of genus Rhizopus Process for the preparation of acid stable protease having a broad activity spectrum by culturing selected mutants of Rhizopus rhizopodiformis CBS 227.75 under aerobic conditions in a nutrient medium containing assimilable carbon and nitrogen sources, at ... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4467033 | Process for oxidizing L-sorbitol to L-fructose Process for preparing L-fructose from L-sorbitol by contacting L-sorbitol with D-iditol dehydrogenase produced by a mutant microorganism of the genus Pseudomonas cultivated in the absence of an inducing polyol.... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4456588 | Method of the preparation of improved mutant strain of Bordetella bronchiseptica useful as live attenuated vaccine for prophlaxis of B. bronchiseptica infection A method for the preparation of a new mutant strain of Bordetella bronchiseptica having a plural of hereditary chromosomal markers of at least temperature-sensitivity and urease negative, more particularly a phase I mutant strain of B. bronchiseptica havi... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4431737 | Process for the production of alpha-galactosidase and uses of the enzyme thus obtained The enzyme alpha-galactosidase is prepared from a constitutive mutant of the strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae NRRL-Y-12057, said mutant being marked by the identification number NRRL-Y-12533.... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4415660 | Method of making a cloning vector A cloning vector useful in recombining DNA (i.e. recombinant DNA studies) is made by mutagenesis of a satellite bacteriophage P4 wt or P4 vir1 and subsequent separation and purification of the mutant progeny in a cesium chloride equilibrium den... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4368269 | Process for producing food proteins of fungal origin of from multicellular organisms fermentation apparatus and proteins so-produced The process consists of cultivating, at a temperature below 28° C., the fungus Trichoderma album in liquid nutrient media, the pH of said media being kept at a value comprised between about 3.7 and 4.8, the dissolved oxygen content being from about 6 to ... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4362815 | Process for the preparation of defective mutants of microorganisms For the production of 17-C-steroid--propionic acid compounds by microbial side chain degradation on 17-C-side chain steroid substrates wild strain microorganisms selected in predetermined manner are subjected to a multi-stage mutation and selection... | 12/07/1982 |
