California Institute of Technology

National Taiwan University

Academia Sinica

Sunney Ignatius Chan

Timothy C Cheng

Vij Ramakrishnan

Guangyang Wang

Michael H B Stowell

Chung-Yuan Mou

Michael H Stowell

Ping-Yu Chen

Sheng-Fa Yu

Ronald S Rock

Penumaka Nagababu

Ravirala Ramu

Chih-Cheng Liu

Suman Maji

Hiep-Hoa T Nguyen

This invention relates to molecular catalysts and chemical reactions utilizing the same, and particularly to molecular catalysts for efficient catalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons, such as hydrocarbons from natural gas. The molecular catalytic platform provided herein is capable of the facile oxidation of hydrocarbons, for example, under ambient conditions such as near room temperature and atmospheric pressure.

Molecular catalysts capable of catalyzing oxidation of hydrocarbons and method for oxidizing hydrocarbons

Among the inventions disclosed herein are: nucleic acid expression systems for bacteria having an intracytoplasmic membrane system, including, for example, methanotrophic bacteria; recombinant nucleic acid constructs comprising a pmo promoter operably linked to an expressible nucleic acid; cloning vectors suitable for making recombinant nucleic acid constructs and methods for the production of proteins such as membrane proteins.

Protein and nucleic acid expression systems

Thermostable peptidase enzyme derived from archaeon from the genusis disclosed. The enzyme is produced from native or recombinant host cells and can be utilized in the biotechnology industry as a useful enzyme in sequencing reactions.

Thermostable peptidase

Inorganic-organic hybrid mixture sol-gel encapsulated lipid vesicles which are composed of silyl lipids or a mixture of silyl lipids and phospholipids are provided. The present invention also provides encapsulated Langmuir Blogget (LB) membranes and biological macromolecules. The sol-gel encapsulated lipid vesicles, LB membranes and proteins possess a higher stability than conventional vesicles. Inorganic-organic hybrid mixture sol-gels are provided as novel sol-gel materials possessing desirable mechanical and physicochemical properties. Also provided are methods of preparing encapsulated lipid vesicles, LB membranes and proteins. Methods of performing renal dialysis using compositions of the invention are also provided.

Sol-gel encapsulation of lipid vesicles, lipid membranes and proteins

Thermostable peptidase enzyme derived from archaeon from the genus Pyrococcus is disclosed. The enzyme is produced from native or recombinant host cells and can be utilized in the biotechnology industry as a useful enzyme in sequencing reactions.

The invention relates to dithiane adducts of substituted benzoins and substituted benzoins derived therefrom each of which are useful as protecting groups, photolabile linkers, and fluorescent probes.

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South Pasadena, CA, United States of America

Sunney Ignatius Chan