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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. 14, 2004
Filed:
May. 07, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Biocatalytics, Inc., Pasadena, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/02 ; C12N 1/20 ; C12N 1/500 ; C07H 2/102 ; C07H 2/104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/02 ; C12N 1/20 ; C12N 1/500 ; C07H 2/102 ; C07H 2/104 ;
Abstract
An enzyme that cleaves 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds by incorporating molecular oxygen into the substrate in amounts equimolar to the amount of substrate cleaved. The enzyme from is a multimer of about 67 kilodaltons made up of subunits of about 16.6 kilodaltons. Nucleotide and amino acid sequence analysis of a cloned subunit indicates little homology with other proteins. Native or recombinant enzyme can be used to decontaminate or detoxify acetylacetone or related diketones.