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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:
Jul. 20, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Naoki Kajiyama, Noda, JP;
Eiichi Nakano, Noda, JP;
Assignee:
Kikkoman Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435189 ; 435 691 ; 435 712 ; 4352523 ; 43525233 ; 4353201 ; 4351723 ; 4351721 ; 536 232 ; 935-9 ; 935 14 ; 935 29 ; 935 56 ; 935 72 ; 935 73 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to thermostable luciferase of firefly wherein an amino acid at the 217-position of the amino acid sequence of wild-type firefly luciferase or an amino acid equivalent to the amino acid at the 217-position of luciferase of GENJI firefly or HEIKE firefly is converted into a hydrophobic amino acid, a gene encoding said thermostable luciferase, a vector comprising the gene encoding said thermostable luciferase inserted therein, and a process for the preparation of thermostable firefly luciferase comprising use of said vector.