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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:
Oct. 30, 1990
Filed:
May. 17, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Cornelis T Verrips, Maassluis, NL;
Jan Maat, Monster, NL;
Luppo Edens, Maassluis, NL;
Adrianus M Ledeboer, Rotterdam, NL;
Assignee:
Unilever Patent Holdings B.V., Rotterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ; C12P / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 691 ; 536 27 ; 935 11 ; 435 70 ; 4351721 ; 4351723 ; 435243 ; 4352523 ; 435320 ; 435 711 ; 435 712 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to structural genes consisting of DNA sequences encoding non-processed and partly processed thaumatin, to the various allelic forms of said non-processed thaumatin and to recombinant DNA's and plasmids comprising said structural genes coding for the various allelic forms of preprothaumatin, and naturally and/or artificially modified preprothaumatin in various stages of its natural processing, and to the use of said recombinant plasmids to transform microorganisms, particularly bacteria in which said genes are expressed.