US Patent Issued to COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH on March 4 for "Recombinant microbial system for directed evolution of glycocins and method of preparation thereof" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,058, issued on March 4, was assigned to COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH (New Delhi).

"Recombinant microbial system for directed evolution of glycocins and method of preparation thereof" was invented by Alka Rao (Chandigarh, India) and Pravinkumar Vishavanath Choudhary (Chandigarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a recombinant microbial system for generation of neo-glycocins, a substrate and to co-evolve its glycosyltransferase enzyme. The recombinant microbial system comprises a gene cassette A encoding for microbial O- and S-glycosyltransferase and its suitable acceptor substrate in ...