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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2018
Applicant:
Dupont Industrial Biosciences Usa, Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Inventors:
Yougen Li, Pennington, NJ (US);
Ellen D. Semke, Newark, DE (US);
Mark S. Payne, Wilmington, DE (US);
Jared B. Parker, Elkton, MD (US);
Susan Marie Hennessey, Avondale, PA (US);
Slavko Kralj, Copenhagen K, DK;
Veli Alkan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Richard Bott, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
DUPONT INDUSTRIAL BIOSCIENCES USA, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/10 (2006.01); C12P 19/18 (2006.01); C12P 19/04 (2006.01); C08B 37/00 (2006.01); G16B 25/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/1048 (2013.01); C08B 37/0009 (2013.01); C12N 9/1051 (2013.01); C12P 19/04 (2013.01); C12P 19/18 (2013.01); C12Y 204/01 (2013.01); G16B 25/00 (2019.02);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are glucosyltransferases with modified amino acid sequences. Such engineered enzymes synthesize alpha-glucan products having increased molecular weight. Further disclosed are reactions and methods in which engineered glucosyltransferases are used to produce alpha-glucan.