ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,199, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AMANO ENZYME INC. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Microorganism with improved protein productivity and use thereof" was invented by Hirotaka Matsubara (Kakamigahara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present invention to provide a microorganism with improved protein secretion, and to provide a method for producing a protein using the aforementioned microorganism. According to the present invention, there is provided a microorganism, in which the expression of at least one ABC transporter ATP-binding protein is lost or decreased."
The patent was filed on Aug. 30, 2022, under Applicati...