US Patent Issued to Green Earth Institute on April 14 for "Genetically modified microorganism for production of aspartic acid and downstream metabolites from aspartic acid as target substance, and method for producing target substance using same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,991, issued on April 14, was assigned to Green Earth Institute Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Genetically modified microorganism for production of aspartic acid and downstream metabolites from aspartic acid as target substance, and method for producing target substance using same" was invented by Toru Nakayashiki (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a genetically modified microorganism satisfying some of predetermined conditions. The predetermined conditions include: (I) succinate dehydrogenase activity or fumarate reductase activity being reduced or inactivated relative to a wild-type microorganism; (I...