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7642080 Subtilases  
The present invention relates to novel subtilases from wild-type strains of Bacillus , especially the Bacillus strains ZI344, EP655, P203, EP63, ZI120, ZI130, ZI1342 and ZI140, and to methods of...
7604973 DNA encoding hyaluronan synthase from Pasteurella multocida and methods of use  
The present invention relates to a nucleic acid segment having a coding region segment encoding enzymatically active Pasteurella multocida hyaluronate synthase (PmHAS), and to the use of this...
7595185 Cytotoxin-based biological containment  
Method of conditionally controlling the survivability of a recombinant cell population and of containing such cells to an environment or containing replicons to a host cell is based on the use of...
7595186 Cytotoxin-based biological containment  
Method of conditionally controlling the survivability of a recombinant cell population and of containing such cells to an environment or containing replicons to a host cell is based on the use of...
7550281 Method for production of alpha-amylase in recombinant Bacillus  
Disclosed is a novel recombinant Bacillus bacterial strain constructed by genetic engineering which has high productivity of aipha-amylase. The Bacillus strain comprises an alpha-amylase gene...
7547536 Method for detecting bacterial spores  
A method of detecting the presence and quantity of bacterial spores, which includes adding an electrophilic alcohol and an acid anhydride to a sample, admixing the sample with a solvent, and...
7541173 Solvent tolerant microorganisms and methods of isolation  
Lactobacillus bacteria having enhanced tolerance to butanols have been isolated. The bacteria are useful for the fermentive production of butanol. New methods for the isolation of butanol tolerant...
7537922 Proteases and variants thereof  
The present invention relates to isolated proteases of the RP-II type and variants of RP-II proteases exhibiting improved properties in comparison to the parent RP-II protease, DNA constructs and...
7531345 Mutations for enhanced tyrosine production  
The present invention provides cells genetically engineered to express mutated chorismate mutase/prephenate dehydrogenase (CM/PDH), the nucleic acid coding for each mutated CM/PDH and similar...
7521204 Bacillus host cell  
A Bacillus licheniformis mutant host cell derived from a parent B. licheniformis host cell, which mutant host cell is mutated in one or more gene(s) encoding one or more secreted polypeptide(s)...
7521222 Farnesyl dibenzodiazepinone and processes for its production  
This invention relates to a novel farnesylated dibenzodiazepinone, named ECO-04601, its pharmaceutically acceptable salts and derivatives, and to methods for obtaining such compounds. One method of...
7510859 Subtilisin variants with improved perhydrolase activity  
The invention relates to novel perhydrolases, derived from the protease Carlsberg by amino acid exchange in positions 11, 15, 21, 38, 50, 54, 58, 77, 83, 89, 93, 96, 107, 117, 120, 134, 135, 136,...
7507402 Topical use of probiotic Bacillus spores to prevent or control microbial infections  
Compositions including an isolated Bacillus species, spores or an extracellular product of B. coagulans , suitable for topical application, for inhibiting growth of yeast, fungus, bacteria or...
7504236 Method to increase carotenoid production in a microbial host cell by down-regulating glycogen synthase  
A method to increase carotenoid production in carotenogenic microbial host cells is provided by down-regulating or disrupting glycogen synthesis. Disruption of glycogen synthase activity in a...
7501262 Promoters and gene expression method by using the promoters  
To provide a promoter, a recombinant DNA, a gene expression vector, an expression vector, and a transformant, which are capable of expressing a gene without inducing gene expression with an...
7494798 Bacillus licheniformis chromosome  
The present invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide of the complete chromosome of Bacillus licheniformis . The present invention also relates to isolated genes of the chromosome of ...
7491404 Acellular immunogenic compositions and acellular vaccine compositions against Bacillus anthracis  
The invention concerns an acellular immunogenic or vaccine composition for producing antibodies against Bacillus anthracis comprising a protective antigen (PA) and killed and optionally purified...
7485447 Proteases and methods for producing them  
A secreted proteolytic polypeptide comprising at least three non-polar or uncharged polar amino acids within the last four amino acids of the C-terminus of the polypeptide, encoding...
7476516 Methods for producing biological substances in pigment-deficient mutants of Bacillus cells  
The present invention relates to methods of producing a heterologous biological substance, comprising: (a) cultivating a mutant of a parent Bacillus cell under conditions conducive for the...
7470528 DNA encoding hydroxylase  
The present invention relates to a protein derived from a microorganism belonging to the genus Bacillus , which has an activity of hydroxylating a compound represented by the formula (I-a): ...
7442540 Polynucleotide encoding coleopteran-toxic polypeptide  
Disclosed are novel insecticidal polypeptides, and compositions comprising these polypeptides, peptide fragments thereof, and antibodies specific therefor. Also disclosed are vectors, transformed...
7422873 Mutant carotenoid ketolase  
CrtW carotenoid ketolases are provided useful for the production of astaxanthin. The ketolases genes of the present invention exhibit improved ketolase activity when converting cyclic hydroxylated...
7417135 Plasmidic gene, ways of acquiring this gene, the amylolytic enzyme it encodes and its application  
The object of the invention is a novel plasmidic gene encoding an amylolytic enzyme which after introduction into a microbial strain, favorably bacterial, especially Lactococcus lactis , enables...
7413877 Bacterial expression of bowman-birk protease inhibitors and variants thereof  
The present invention provides compositions and methods related to the expression of Bowman-Birk protease inhibitors and variants thereof in bacterial species. The present invention further...
7407791 Production of secreted polypeptides  
Described herein are methods and compositions for the production and secretion of polypeptides. Included herein is the use of interrupting peptide transport activity for an increase in polypeptide...
7399623 Modified forms of pullulanase  
The present invention relates to modified pullulanases useful in the starch industry. The present invention provides methods for producing the modified pullulanase, enzymatic compositions...
7393671 Mutant carotenoid ketolases  
CrtW carotenoid ketolases are provided that are useful for the production of astaxanthin and other cyclic ketocarotenoids. The mutant ketolase genes of the present invention encode polypeptides...
7378512 Production of proteins by autoproteolytic cleavage  
The present invention relates to a process for the production of a heterologous polypeptide with homogeneous N-terminus in a bacterial host cell, wherein the heterologous polypeptide is...
7364875 Method for producing medical and commercial grade poly-gamma-glutamic acid of high molecular weight  
Methods for producing high molecular weight poly-gamma-glutamic acid (PGA). The PGA is produced by fermentation, and purified by use of tangential flow filtration, followed by diafiltration, as...
7344855 Fermentation process  
A process for the preparation of a target fermentation product comprising cultivation of an aerobic microorganism to produce such product, wherein in the microorganism the efficiency of the...
7335506 Method for producing L-lysine or L-arginine by using methanol-assimilating bacterium  
A DNA encoding a variant of a protein, the protein having a loop region and six hydrophobic helices and involved in secretion of L-lysine to the outside of a cell, wherein the DNA encodes a variant...
7335505 Materials and methods relating to protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease  
The present invention provides methods of proteolytically converting a precursor protein (e.g. tau) to a product fragment (e.g., a 12 kd fragment) in a stable cell line, wherein the precursor...
7329741 Polynucleotides that hybridize to DP-75 and their use  
The present invention is a novel nucleic acid sequence which hybridizes to SEQ ID NO:6 or fragments thereof under stringent conditions, or fragments thereof. The invention also includes diagnostic...
7326546 Purine-derived substance-producing bacterium and a method for producing purine-derived substance  
A purine-derived substance is produced by culturing a Bacillus bacterium which has an ability to produce a purine-derived substance and has enhanced activity of an enzyme of the oxidative...
7323328 Obligately symbiotic thermophile Symbiobacterium toebii SC-1 producing thermostable L-tyrosine phenol-lyase and L-tryptophan indole-lyase  
The present invention relates to a novel obligately symbiotic thermophile Symbiobacterium toebii SC-1 (Accession NO: KCTC 0685BP), and a thermostable L-tyrosine phenol-lyase and L-tryptophan...
7319030 Non-sporulating Bacillus subtilis having parts of the gene encoding sigma G deleted  
A non-sporulating Bacillus subtilis strain, a method for preparing it and its use as a production organism. A method for preparing a biologically prepared product with the non-sporulating...
7319028 Process for producing sporangia of Bacillus popilliae, control agent, and controlling method  
The present invention provides a process for efficiently producing sporangia of Bacillus popilliae containing spores and parasporal bodies having controlling effects on Scarabaeidae insects,...
7316924 Twin-arginine translocation in Bacillus  
Described herein are methods to enhance protein secretion in a host cell. In preferred embodiment, the host cell is a gram-positive microorganism such as a Bacillus . In another preferred...
7312066 Nucleic acid molecules encoding NRC interacting factor-1 (NIF-1)  
The present invention relates to isolated human and rat nucleic acid molecules encoding a protein or polypeptide that modulates transcriptional activation in a cell with or without collaboration...
7282356 D-aminoacylase mutants  
The present invention provides mutant D-aminoacylases and use thereof. The mutant D-aminoacylases are hard to be inhibited by the substrate and, comprise the amino acid sequences of the...
7250281 Subtilisin variants  
Novel carbonyl hydrolase variants derived from the DNA sequences of naturally-occurring or recombinant non-human carbonyl hydrolases are disclosed. The variant carbonyl hydrolases, in general, are...
7244581 Glucose dehydrogenase  
Disclosed is a modified glucose dehydrogenase having pyrroloquinoline quinone as a coenzyme, wherein one or more amino acid residues in a region of amino acid 349-377 of water-soluble PQQGDH...
7229796 Hyaluronan synthase genes and expression thereof in Bacillus hosts  
The present invention relates to a recombinant Bacillus host cell containing a recombinant vector including a nucleic acid segment having a coding region segment encoding enzymatically active...
7208303 Bacterial nitric oxide synthases and uses thereof  
The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding nitric oxide synthases. The isolated nucleic acid molecules and their encoded protein or polypeptides are useful in methods...
7205140 Nucleotide sequence for creatinine deiminase and method of use  
The present invention relates to the discovery of novel genes encoding a polypeptide having creatinine deiminase activity and methods of use. Also disclosed is a kit using the novel sequences for...
7202077 Methods for enhancing the translation and expression of recombinant proteins  
The increased use of nucleotide sequence data mining techniques has amplified the demand for efficient methods of producing recombinant proteins in prokaryotic cells. A strategy is provided for...
7202059 Fusion proteins capable of being secreted into a fermentation medium  
Fusion protein including a fusion part and a protein of interest, the combination of the two proteins leading to the fusion protein being secreted into a supernatant of a bacterial host with the...
7192746 α-Isomaltosyltransferase, process for producing the same and use thereof  
The object of the present invention is to provide an α-isomaltosyl-transferring enzyme which forms a cyclotetrasaccharide having the structure of...
7183088 Thermophilic microorganism Bacillus coagulans strain SIM-T DSM 14043 for the production of L(+)-lactate from fermentable sugars and their mixtures  
Thermophilic microorganism Bacillus coagulans strain SIM-7 DSM 14043 for the production of L(+)-lactate from fermentable sugars, including dextrines and starch. The temperature of cultivation is...
7183093 Mannanases  
The present invention relates to mannanases comprising e.g., a sequence of amino acids 32–330 of SEQ ID NO: 2 or their homologues may be derived from e.g., Bacillus sp. I633, or may be encoded...