US Patent Issued to National Center of Technology Innovation for Synthetic Biology on Feb. 17 for "D-xylulose 4-epimerase, mutants and uses thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,072, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to National Center of Technology Innovation for Synthetic Biology Co. Ltd. (Tianjin, China).

"D-xylulose 4-epimerase, mutants and uses thereof" was invented by Yi-Heng Percival Zhang (Tianjin, China) and Wei Zhou (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to D-xylulose 4-epimerase, mutants thereof, and uses thereof. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to a polypeptide having D-xylulose 4-epimerase activity, a method for preparing said polypeptide, and use of said polypeptide in the preparation of L-pentose using D-xylose or D-xylulose as a raw material. ...