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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:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Roche Vitamins Inc., Parsippany, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/00 ; C12N 1/20 ; C12N 1/500 ; C12Q 1/68 ; C07H 2/104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/00 ; C12N 1/20 ; C12N 1/500 ; C12Q 1/68 ; C07H 2/104 ;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to genetic materials useful for the preparation of astaxanthin from beta-carotene, such as polypeptides having astaxanthin synthase activity, DNA fragments coding for astaxanthin synthase, recombinant organisms and the like. Those novel genetic materials may be derived from . The present invention also provides a process for the production of astaxanthin.