US Patent Issued to DAESANG on Aug. 12 for "5-dehydro-2-deoxygluconokinase variant and method for producing 5'-inosinic acid using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,020, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DAESANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"5-dehydro-2-deoxygluconokinase variant and method for producing 5'-inosinic acid using same" was invented by Sun Hee Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Tae Yeol Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Sook Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jong Hwan Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel 5-dehydro-2-deoxygluconokinase variant and a method of producing 5'-inosinic acid using the same. The 5-dehydro-2-deoxygluconokinase variant is obtained by substituting ...