US Patent Issued to UBE on Nov. 18 for "Carbonyl reductase, nucleic acid encoding same, and method for producing optically active compound using same" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,578, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to UBE Corp. (Yamaguchi, Japan).

"Carbonyl reductase, nucleic acid encoding same, and method for producing optically active compound using same" was invented by Takanobu Iura (Tokyo), Yasumasa Dekishima (Tokyo), Takeshi Sakamoto (Tokyo), Mari Hara (Tokyo), Hirotoshi Hiraoka (Osaka, Japan), Harald Groger (Bielefeld, Germany) and Jieun Choi (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a carbonyl reductase having the activity of reducing a carbonyl group-containing compound to convert the compound into an optically active compound, and a production method of an optically acti...