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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:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles Lee Hershberger, Greenfield, IN (US);
Robert Allen Payson, Greenwood, IN (US);
Assignee:
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/500 ;
Abstract
The invention provides cloned ketoreductase genes, vectors for expressing same, recombinant host cells that express said vector-borne genes, a method for stereospecifically reducing a ketone using a recombinant ketoreductase, or a recombinant host cell that expresses a cloned ketoreductase gene, as well as a method for generating polynucleotide sequences more conducive to recombinant expression.