ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,611, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Transaminase polypeptides" was invented by Ish K. Dhawan (Foster City, Calif.), Gregory Miller (Redwood City, Calif.) and Xiyun Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type transaminase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered transaminase enzymes to synthesize a...