US Patent Issued to Jiangnan University on June 9 for "Cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase with enhanced solvent tolerance and preparation thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,910, issued on June 9, was assigned to Jiangnan University (Wuxi, China).

"Cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase with enhanced solvent tolerance and preparation thereof" was invented by Ruizhi Han (Wuxi, China), Ye Ni (Wuxi, China), Yulin Jiang (Wuxi, China) and Zhaoyue Fan (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure discloses a cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase with enhanced solvent tolerance and preparation thereof, belonging to the technical fields of enzyme engineering and genetic engineering. The disclosure constructs four cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase mutants with enhanced organic solvent tolerance. Among them, the m...