ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,629, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Engineered uridine phosphorylase variant enzymes" was invented by Jonathan Vroom (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jessica Anna Hurtak (Mountain View, Calif.) and Anders Matthew Knight (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides engineered uridine phosphorylase (UP) enzymes, polypeptides having UP activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, as well as vectors and host cells comprising these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Methods for producing UP enzymes are also provided. The present invention further pro...