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Class 435/924 - Candida tropicalis


Subclass of Class 435 - Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
No. of patents: 43
Last issue date: 09/19/2006


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NumberTitleIssue Date
7109005Process for the simultaneous production of xylitol and ethanol
Effective processes are provided for the production of xylitol and ethanol and other products from solutions derived from lignocellulose-containing material in biomass. The solutions can be hydrolyzed or partially hydrolyzed before being fermented with microbes. The...
09/19/2006
7001776Device and method for cytology slide preparation
This invention provides a novel device and method for preparing cytology slides. The device comprises a book-like form including an absorbent material and filter attached to the inside surface of a front cover and a cytology slide removeably attached to an inside su...
02/21/2006
6890729Device and method for cytology slide preparation
This invention provides a novel device and method for preparing cytology slides. The device comprises a book-like form including an absorbent material and filter attached to the inside surface of a front cover and a cytology slide removeably attached to an inside su...
05/10/2005
6846657Process for the simultaneous production of xylitol and ethanol
The invention relates to a process for the simultaneous production of xylitol and ethanol from a hydrolyzed lignocellulose-containing material starting. The starting material is fermented with a yeast strain, the ethanol produced is recovered, a chromatographic sepa...
01/25/2005
6436662Device and method for cytology slide preparation
This invention provides a novel device and method for preparing cytology slides. The device comprises a book-like form including an absorbent material and filter attached to the inside surface of a front cover and a cytology slide removeably attached to a...
08/20/2002
6426204Method for detecting candida infection
A D-arabinitol dehydrogenase enzyme is disclosed. The enzyme is capable of catalyzing the oxidation of D-arabinitol and substantially incapable of catalyzing the oxidation of D-mannitol and is substantially free of other enzymes capable of oxidizing D-man...
07/30/2002
6300140Rapid test employing an adhesive slide
A slide having a portion thereof provided with transparent adhesive which adheres to a test sample. The slide and adhesive may be transparent. Specific types of infection and particularly fungal infections can be detected in the test sample using immunote...
10/09/2001
5994149Rapid test employing an adhesive slide
A slide having a portion thereof provided with transparent adhesive which adheres to a test sample. The slide and adhesive may be transparent. Specific types of infection and particularly fungal infections can be detected in the test sample using immunote...
11/30/1999
5962285Process for making polycarboxylic acids
Aliphatic polycarboxylic acids are made by a process comprising the steps of: (1) fermenting a beta-oxidation blocked C. tropicalis cell wherein both copies of the chromosomal POX5 gene and the chromosomal POX4A and POX4B genes are disrupted in a culture ...
10/05/1999
5766874Kit containing d-arabinitol dehydrogenase and NAD+ for determining d-arabinitol
A D-arabinitol dehydrogenase enzyme is prepared that is capable of catalyzing the oxidation of D-arabinitol and substantially incapable of catalyzing the oxidation of D-mannitol and is substantially free of other enzymes capable of oxidizing D-mannitol. T...
06/16/1998
5741662Direct stain specific binding assays for microorganisms
The present invention provides specific binding solid phase assay methods and kits for the detection of the presence or absence of a microorganism by directly staining the microorganism and specifically capturing the stained microorganism on a solid suppo...
04/21/1998
5707802Nucleic acid probes for the detection and identification of fungi
Nucleic acid probes and primers are described for detecting fungi that cause disease in humans and animals, as well as spoilage of food and beverages. These probes can detect rRNA, rDNA or polymerase chain reaction products from a majority of fungi in cli...
01/13/1998
5658726Detecting eukaryotic microorganisms
A method for constructing a cDNA probe for use in detecting in a sample, under conditions of predetermined stringency, a target organism belonging to a strain of fungal microorganisms, and not detecting in the sample under such conditions a reference micr...
08/19/1997
5451517D-arabinitol dehydrogenase from Candida tropicalis ATCC 750 or Candida shehatae
A D-arabinitol dehydrogenase enzyme is disclosed. The enzyme is capable of catalyzing the oxidation of D-arabinitol and substantially incapable of catalyzing the oxidation of D-mannitol and is substantially free of other enzymes capable of oxidizing D-man...
09/19/1995
5403710Nucleic acid probes and methods for detecting pathogenic candida yeasts
Nucleic acid probes are described for detecting yeasts capable of causing Candida infection, specifically yeasts of the genera Candida, Torulopsis, and Yarrowia. The preferred probes are complementary to ribonucleic acid sequences unique to specific Candi...
04/04/1995
5294546Method for production of a growth factor for Bifidobacterium sp.
A method of producing a growth promoting factor for Bifidobacterium species from lactose which comprises contacting lactose with resting cells of a lactose-utilizing yeast strain having activity to rearrange lactose to galacto-oligosaccharides....
03/15/1994
5288639Fungal stress proteins
A polypeptide sequence from Candida albicans is described which has significant sequence homology with known stress proteins from other organisms, particularly the heat shock protein hsp 90 of Sacchromyces cerevisiae. Corresponding DNA sequences are also ...
02/22/1994
5266485Method of manufacturing optically active (-)-2-halo-1-(substituted phenyl) ethanol by ketone reduction
A method is proposed for manufacturing (-)-2-bromo-1-(3'-chlorophenyl) ethanol by bringing a 2-bromo-1-(3'-chlorophenyl) ethanone into contact with a microorganism belonging to 9 genuses including Ashbya genus and Brettanomycess genus to thereby reduce it...
11/30/1993
5254466Site-specific modification of the candida tropicals genome
The POX genes of C. tropicalis are disrupted resulting in the complete blockage of the beta-oxidation pathway in the strain. Fermentation of C. tropicalis cells having disrupted genes on alkane, fatty acid and fatty acid ester substrates produces substant...
10/19/1993
5204252Candida tropicalis transformation system
A transformation system is provided for C. tropicalis, comprising constructs and microorganisms, as well as methods for preparing constructs and microorganisms, and transforming microorganisms. Particularly, a yeast transformation system comprising auxotr...
04/20/1993
5081026Method for the production of xylitol
A method is disclosed for the production of xylitol from a xylose and/or xylan containing material. A solution containing xylitol and other hexoses is fermented with a yeast strain capable of converting free xylose to xylitol and other free hexoses presen...
01/14/1992
5081033Miniaturized yeast identification system
Methods and compositions are disclosed for the rapid identification of fungal pathogens. In a preferred method, a sample of human body fluid is obtained and subjected to analysis comprising inoculating a nutritive medium, incubating said inoculum for such...
01/14/1992
4960695Fermentation process to produce 2-keto-L-gluonic acid
A process of producing 2-keto-L-gulonic acid by fermentative conversion of L-sorbose utilizing a fermentation system composed of component produced from a microorganism having the identifying characteristics of strain DSM No. 4025 and a yeast component....
10/02/1990
49257983-hydroxydicarboxylic acids and process for their production
3-hydroxydicarboxylic acids of 12-18 carbon atoms are produced microbiologically from n-alkanes employing the yeast mutant Candida tropicalis DSM 3152....
05/15/1990
4874695Rapid indentification of yeast and other fungal microorganisms by enzyme detection
Rapid identification of different species of microorganism selected from fungi and yeast like algae is accomplished by culturing the microorganism for several hours under normal conditions on a non-inhibitory mycological medium which stimulates the microo...
10/17/1989
48270303-hydroxydicarboxylic acids and process for their production
3-hydroxydicarboxylic acids of 12-18 carbon atoms are produced microbiologically from n-alkanes employing the yeast mutant Candida tropicalis DSM 3152....
05/02/1989
4559305Microbial culture system
The specification discloses making a mixed fungal (yeast and yeast-like) system culture adapted to biodegradation of spent sulfite liquor (SSL) comprising the steps of exposing a mixed culture system (being a sludge from a sewage treatment plant) to incre...
12/17/1985
4474882Microbiological process for the preparation of unsaturated dicarboxylic acids
A process for the preparation of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid which comprises cultivating under aerobic conditions a yeast belonging to Candida tropicalis which is capable of producing an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid from an unsaturated fatty acid or...
10/02/1984
4414329Biochemical conversions by yeast fermentation at high cell densities
A method of high cellular density yeast fermentation at high mineral salts feed to and maintained in the ferment. Single cell protein (SCP) is produced in an aerobic fermentation process at high yields under high cell density conditions employing media of high...
11/08/1983
4411998Suppressing method of iso-citric acid formation in producing citric acid from hydrocarbons by fermentation
The present invention relates to a suppressing method of iso-citric acid formation in producing citric acid from hydrocarbons by fermentation. This process is carried out by culturing the microorganisms selected from the group belonging to Candida tropicalis, ...
10/25/1983
4391908Method for producing citric acids
Citric acids are produced by culturing a citric acids-accumulating and hydrocarbon-assimilating strain of a yeast of the genus Candida in an aqueous medium containing, as main carbon source, at least one normal paraffin with from 9 to 20 carbon atoms, inc...
07/05/1983
4389484Method for producing citric acid
Citric acids are produced by culturing a citric acids-accumulating and hydrocarbon-assimilating strain of a yeast of the Genus Candida in an aqueous medium containing, as main carbon source, at least one normal paraffin with from 9 to 20 carbon atoms, inc...
06/21/1983
4339536Process for the preparation of long-chain dicarboxylic acids by fermentation
Disclosed in this invention is a process for producing a long-chain dicarboxylic acid by culturing a fungus belonging to Candida tropicalis which has the ability to produce a long-chain dicarboxylic acid in a liquid medium containing a straight-chain satu...
07/13/1982
4301244Quantitative analysis of free fatty acid and reagent composition therefor
There is provided a method for the quantitative analysis of a free fatty acid which comprises (1) the first step of treating a sample containing the free fatty acid with acyl-coenzyme A synthetase in the presence of adenosine triphosphate and coenzyme A t...
11/17/1981
4261420Enriched oil recovery using carbon dioxide
A single cell protein plant is operated to produce high density cell growth and a substantially pure stream of generally high pressure carbon dioxide for further use, for example, in enhanced oil recovery operations. The plant employs an air separator pro...
04/14/1981
4180626Process for manufacturing citric acid from olefins by fermentation
The present invention relates to a microbiological process for the production of citric acid by assimilation of olefins. Normal olefins of C8-40 produced from thermal cracking of petroleum wax or from polymerization of ethylene are suitable as ...
12/25/1979
4172764Process for obtaining hybrid strains of yeasts
The cell walls are removed from two distinct auxotropic mutant strains of yeast. The protoplasts thus obtained are fused and the cell walls regenerated. The strains obtained are cultured on a medium where the original auxotrophs cannot develop and the hyb...
10/30/1979
4071411Antitumor 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
4030980Apparatus and method for identification of selected clinical yeast
An apparatus for the identification of a number of the most frequently isolated medical yeasts employing a single tube and a multi-cavity plate. The tube contains sterile, liquid media to test for germ-tube production. The plate is composed of eleven, ind...
06/21/1977
4021303Method for treatment of microorganisms
Microorganisms are chemically treated with alkali at a pH of 10.5 - 12.9 and a temperature of 0° - 30° C., washed with water and mechanically ruptured at a pH of 7 - 10.2....
05/03/1977
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