US Patent Issued to Genzyme on May 19 for "Polypeptide having Beta-hexosaminidase activity, and polynucleotides coding for the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,810, issued on May 19, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Polypeptide having Beta-hexosaminidase activity, and polynucleotides coding for the same" was invented by Sebastian Rissom (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Ava Chattopadhyay (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Werner Dittrich (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Thomas Martin Wendrich (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of producing a polypeptide having Beta-hexosaminidase activity, comprising the steps of a) providing a yeast cell comprising a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having Beta-hexosaminidase ac...