US Patent Issued to TIANJIN INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on Sept. 23 for "Mutant protein for improving malic acid yield" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,511, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TIANJIN INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Tianjin, China).

"Mutant protein for improving malic acid yield" was invented by Chaoguang Tian (Tianjin, China), Junqi Zhao (Tianjin, China), Jingen Li (Tianjin, China) and Lu Zhang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a class of new mutant proteins for increasing malic acid yield. Specifically, the present invention provides a class of new pyruvate carboxylase mutant protein and malic acid transporter mutant proteins or combinations thereof, a preparation method therefor and ...