US Patent Issued to WACKER CHEMIE on April 14 for "Biocatalyst as a core component of an enzyme-catalyzed redox system for the biocatalytic reduction of cystine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,995, issued on April 14, was assigned to WACKER CHEMIE AG (Munich).

"Biocatalyst as a core component of an enzyme-catalyzed redox system for the biocatalytic reduction of cystine" was invented by Carsten Bornhovd (Munich), Guido Jach (Konigswinter, Germany), Ingrid Torres Monroy (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Peter Welters (Nettetal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enzyme for reducing cystine to cysteine is a fusion protein that includes the protein activities of thioredoxin (protein i) having KEGG database number EC 1.8.4.8 or EC 1.8.4.10 and thioredoxin reductase (protein ii) having KEGG database number EC 1.8.1.9. The thiore...