US Patent Issued to SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on June 24 for "Alditol oxidase and application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,479, issued on June 24, was assigned to SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China).

"Alditol oxidase and application thereof" was invented by Suiping Zheng (Guangzhou, China), Shiming Tang (Guangzhou, China), Zhiteng Zhang (Guangzhou, China), Daocheng Liao (Guangzhou, China) and Ying Lin (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alditol oxidase and application thereof. The method uses D-glucose as a substrate to dock the alditol oxidase derived from Streptomyces coelicolor A3, and selects amino acid residues around an active center for saturation mutagenesis, and screens for alditol oxidase with D-glucose oxidi...