ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,710, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Genomatica Inc. (San Diego).
"Methanol dehydrogenase fusion proteins" was invented by Nelson R. Barton (San Diego), Jingyi Li (San Diego), Joseph R. Warner (San Diego) and Priti Pharkya (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are fusion proteins including methanol dehydrogenase (MeDH) and at least one other polypeptide such as 3-hexulose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (HPS) or 6-phospho-3-hexuloisomerase (PHI), such as DHAS synthase or fructose-6-Phosphate aldolase or such as DHA synthase or DHA kinase. In a localized manner, the fusion protein can promote the conversion of methan...