US Patent Issued to NANJING NUTRABUILDING BIO-TECH on Nov. 25 for "Genetic strain for producing 3-aminoisobutyric acid" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,102, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NANJING NUTRABUILDING BIO-TECH Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).

"Genetic strain for producing 3-aminoisobutyric acid" was invented by Qilin Liao (Nanjing, China) and Jian Zhang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a S-adenosyl-L-methionine Delta24-sterol-C-methyltransferase mutant C24MTgm-M11. Strain MG1655 (triangleptsG trianglefumAC trianglefumB, panD, aspA, C24MTgm) is constructed based on the polynucleotide encoding the enzyme mutant. Strain MG1655 (trianglepts GtrianglefumAC trianglefumB, panD, aspA, C24MTgm-M11) can produce 480 mg/L 3-aminoisobutyric ac...