US Patent Issued to CJ CHEILJEDANG on April 8 for "Modified polypeptide of glutamine synthetase and method of producing L-glutamine using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,061, issued on April 8, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Modified polypeptide of glutamine synthetase and method of producing L-glutamine using the same" was invented by Su Jin Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Imsang Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Heeyeong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Byeong Soo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kwang Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a modified polypeptide of glutamine synthetase having enhanced activity and a method of producing L-glutamine using the same. Since production of L-glutamine may be increased by using the novel modified ...