US Patent Issued to Codexis on July 29 for "Engineered transaminase polypeptides for industrial biocatalysis" (Singaporean, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,678, issued on July 29, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Engineered transaminase polypeptides for industrial biocatalysis" was invented by Martina Quintanar-Audelo (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Ellen Eberhard (Fallbrook, Calif.), Jovana Nazor (Milpitas, Calif.), Derek Smith (Singapore) and Cuixia Wang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase polypeptides useful for the synthesis of chiral amine compounds under industrially relevant conditions. The disclosure also provides polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminase polypeptides, host cells capable of...