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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 13, 2017
Applicant:

E I Du Pont DE Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);

Inventors:

Yougen Li, Pennington, NJ (US);

Mark S. Payne, Wilmington, DE (US);

Jared B. Parker, Elkton, MD (US);

Slavko Kralj, Copenhagen K, DK;

Veli Alkan, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Richard R. Bott, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Robert Dicosimo, Chadds Ford, PA (US);

Qiong Cheng, Wilmington, DE (US);

Ellen D. Semke, Newark, DE (US);

Susan Marie Hennessey, Avondale, PA (US);

Assignee:

E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, Wilmington, DE (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/10 (2006.01); C12P 19/04 (2006.01); C12P 19/18 (2006.01); C08B 37/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/1051 (2013.01); C08B 37/0009 (2013.01); C12P 19/04 (2013.01); C12P 19/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are glucosyltransferases with modified amino acid sequences. Such engineered enzymes exhibit improved alpha-glucan product yields and/or lower leucrose yields, for example. Further disclosed are reactions and methods in which engineered glucosyltransferases are used to produce alpha-glucan.


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