US Patent Issued to UNIST(ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) on Dec. 30 for "Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase having excellent oxygen resistance and enzyme activity, and use thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,664, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to UNIST(ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase having excellent oxygen resistance and enzyme activity, and use thereof" was invented by Yong Hwan Kim (Ulsan, South Korea), Suk Min Kim (Ulsan, South Korea) and Jin Hee Lee (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a carbon monoxide (CO) dehydrogenase with increased oxygen resistance and/or enzyme activity, specifically, a mutant CO dehydrogenase with increased oxygen resistance and/or enzyme activity by mutating amino acid residues. The CO dehydrogenase may detox...