US Patent Issued to CJ CHEILJEDANG on Aug. 11 for "Branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase variant and method for producing isoleucine using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,859, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase variant and method for producing isoleucine using the same" was invented by Heeyeong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jihyun Shim (Seoul, South Korea), Kyungrim Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Kwang Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Woosung Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a novel branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase variant that decreases the amount of by-products generated during the production of L-isoleucine, a polynucleotide encoding the variant, and a ve...