US Patent Issued to Plumino Precision Fermentation Japan on April 7 for "Protein having 1,3-fucosyltransferase activity, and method for producing fucose-containing sugar" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,499, issued on April 7, was assigned to Plumino Precision Fermentation Japan Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Protein having 1,3-fucosyltransferase activity, and method for producing fucose-containing sugar" was invented by Tomotoshi Sugita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a fucose-containing carbohydrate more efficiently as compared with that in related art. The present invention relates to any one protein of [1] a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 or 4, [2] a mutant protein having an Alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase activity and consis...