ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,058, issued on April 8, was assigned to Jiangnan University (Wuxi, China).
"Feruloyl esterase and application thereof" was invented by Tao Zhang (Wuxi, China), Bo Jiang (Wuxi, China), Xiaoli Duan (Wuxi, China) and Ming Miao (Wuxi, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure discloses a feruloyl esterase and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of microorganisms. The disclosure provides a feruloyl esterase with an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 and specific enzyme activity as high as 519 U/g. The disclosure provides a recombinant Bacillus subtilis which uses Bacillus subtilis as a host, expresses ...