ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,875, issued on July 1, was assigned to INBIOSE N.V. (Zwijnaarde, Belgium).
"Sialyltransferases for the production of sialylated oligosaccharides" was invented by Joeri Beauprez (Zwijnaarde, Belgium), Thomas Decoene (Zwijnaarde, Belgium), Annelies Vercauteren (Zwijnaarde, Belgium) and Tom Verhaeghe (Zwijnaarde, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the technical field of synthetic biology, metabolic engineering and cell cultivation. The present invention relates to newly identified sialyltransferases having alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase activity on the galactose residue of lactose. The invention also describe...