US Patent Issued to CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC) on July 8 for "Unspecific peroxygenase enzyme variants for selective fatty acid epoxidation or hydroxylation" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,833, issued on July 8, was assigned to CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC) (Madrid).

"Unspecific peroxygenase enzyme variants for selective fatty acid epoxidation or hydroxylation" was invented by Juan Carro Aramburu (Madrid), Alejandro Gonzalez Benjumea (Seville, Spain), Carmen Aranda Oliden (Seville, Spain), Ana Gutierrez Suarez (Seville, Spain) and Angel T. Martinez Ferrer (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a recombinant Marasmius rotula unspecific peroxygenase (rMroURO) and two mutants thereof, wherein said mutants show enhanced selectivity towards either the epoxidation or the (sub)...