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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. 21, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jan M Van Dijl, Groningen, NL;
Hilde E Smith, Groningen, NL;
Sierd Bron, Haren, NL;
Wilhelmus J Quax, Voorschoten, NL;
Gerard Venema, Haren, NL;
Assignee:
Gist-brocades, N.V., Delft, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 691 ; 4352523 ; 435 712 ; 4353201 ; 435220 ; 435221 ; 435222 ; 4351723 ; 536 232 ; 935 14 ; 935 51 ; 935 72 ;
Abstract
The subject invention describes the cloning and overexpression of leader peptidase genes. A method for isolating a leader peptidase gene is disclosed. Overexpression of the signal peptidase in a suitable host species leads to an enhanced rate of protein processing.