US Patent Issued to AJINOMOTO on March 24 for "Method for producing gamma-glutamyl-valyl-glycine and/or a salt thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,157, issued on March 24, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing gamma-glutamyl-valyl-glycine and/or a salt thereof" was invented by Ayako Sasahara (Kawasaki, Japan), Takayuki Ito (Kawasaki, Japan) and Hiroyuki Nozaki (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microorganism useful as an expression host for Gamma-Glu-Val synthetase and a method for producing Gamma-Glu-Val-Gly using Gamma-Glu-Val synthetase expressed in the microorganism are provided. By using Gamma-Glu-Val synthetase expressed in a bacterium, for example Escherichia bacteria, modified so that the activity of a protein encoded by a ybd...