US Patent Issued to Jiangnan University on July 8 for "Recombinant Escherichia coli for producing l-tyrosine and application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,795, issued on July 8, was assigned to Jiangnan University (Wuxi, China).

"Recombinant Escherichia coli for producing l-tyrosine and application thereof" was invented by Jingwen Zhou (Wuxi, China), Jian Chen (Wuxi, China), Jurong Ping (Wuxi, China) and Weizhu Zeng (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is recombinant Escherichia coli for producing L-tyrosine and application thereof, and belongs to the technical fields of genetic engineering and bioengineering. According to the present disclosure, genes aroP and tyrP are knocked out, expresses the endogenous gene yddG of E. coli, then heterologously expresses fpk from Bi...