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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. 22, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435212 ; 435 711 ; 435 712 ;
Abstract
Dipeptidyl peptidase IV obtainable from a microorganism of the species Xanthomonas maltophilia is described, which hydrolyzes specifically a peptide and derivatives thereof having proline at the second position from the amino terminus to release a dipeptide having proline at the carboxyl terminus. Also, the process for producing the dipeptidyl peptidase IV is described.