US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on June 3 for "Methods for producing modified bacteria for production of nitroaromatics" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,946, issued on June 3, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Methods for producing modified bacteria for production of nitroaromatics" was invented by Yousong Ding (Gainesville, Fla.) and Ran Zuo (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates, in some aspects, to compositions and methods useful for production of nitrated aromatic molecules. The disclosure is based, in part, on whole cell systems expressing artificial fusion proteins comprising cytochrome P450 enzymes linked to reductase enzymes. In some aspects, the disclosure relates to methods of producing nitr...