US Patent Issued to Alliance for Energy Innovation on April 21 for "Conversion of lignin-derived monomers to muconate by engineered pseudomonas" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,852, issued on April 21, was assigned to Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Conversion of lignin-derived monomers to muconate by engineered pseudomonas" was invented by Christopher W. Johnson (Denver), Gregg Tyler Beckham (Golden, Colo.) and Allison Jean Zimont Werner (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are engineered Pseudomonas useful to relieve the metabolic bottleneck of 4-hydroxybenzoate transformation in a muconate accumulating strain on an engineered Pseudomonas by swapping its endogenous para-hydroxybenzoate-3-hydroxylase (PHBH), PobA, with a homolog, PraI, that has a broader cofactor pr...