US Patent Issued to AJINOMOTO on Feb. 10 for "Modified indole-3-acetic acid-amido synthetase GH3.6 enzyme having n-acylation activity" (Japanese, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,935, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).

"Modified indole-3-acetic acid-amido synthetase GH3.6 enzyme having n-acylation activity" was invented by Hidemi Nagata (Tokyo), Uno Tagami (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Nozaki (Tokyo), Keiko Koenuma (Tokyo), Daria Streltsova (Moscow), Anna Khruscheva (Moscow) and Joanna Katashkina (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an enzyme useful for establishing an excellent N-acyl-amino group-containing compound production system, and the like. More specifically, the present invention provides a modified enzyme comprising: (A) a modified amino acid sequenc...