US Patent Issued to KAO on May 26 for "Transformed cell having ability to produce 2,5-pyridine dicarboxylic acid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,701, issued on May 26, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transformed cell having ability to produce 2,5-pyridine dicarboxylic acid" was invented by Kyoshiro Nonaka (Wakayama, Japan) and Fumikazu Takahashi (Wakayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a transformed cell having the ability to produce 2,5-pyridine dicarboxylic acids, and a method for producing 2,5-pyridine dicarboxylic acids using the same. The present invention provides a transformed cell having the ability to produce 2,5-pyridine dicarboxylic acids, the transformed cell being derived from a microbe having the ability to biosynthesize 4-aminobenzoic aci...