US Patent Issued to Jiangnan University on Jan. 20 for "Method for producing phycocyanobilin using a recombinant Escherichia coli" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,084, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Jiangnan University (Wuxi, China).

"Method for producing phycocyanobilin using a recombinant Escherichia coli" was invented by Jingwen Zhou (Wuxi, China), Jian Chen (Wuxi, China), Yuqi Wang (Wuxi, China), Sha Xu (Wuxi, China) and Weizhu Zeng (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for producing phycocyanobilin by use of a recombinant Escherichia coli that express heterologous heme oxygenase ho1 and ferredoxin oxidoreductase pcyA derived from Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. According to the present disclosure, heterologous expression of ho1 and pcyA genes leads to conversion...