US Patent Issued to DAICEL on Dec. 16 for "Enzyme capable of dehydroxylating hydroxyl group in urolithin compound" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,599, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Enzyme capable of dehydroxylating hydroxyl group in urolithin compound" was invented by Jun Ogawa (Kyoto, Japan), Shigenobu Kishino (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroaki Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is, at least, to provide an enzyme that dehydroxylates hydroxyl groups at predetermined positions of urolithins having hydroxyl groups at the predetermined positions, and the object can be solved by an enzyme having the following properties (1) and (2): (1) dehydroxylating a hydroxyl group at the 4-position of urolithins; and (...