Process for preparing optically active 3,3,3-trifluoromethyl-2-alkylpropionic acid derivatives
What is claimed is: 1. A process for preparing optically active 3,3,3-trifluoro-2-alkylpropionic acid derivatives of the general formulae ##STR4## in which R denotes ethyl or methyl and X denotes --OH... Read More
Inventors: Naughton, Andrew; Shaw, Nicholas;, Assignee: Lonza AG (Basel, CH) |
Process for the fermentative production of L-amino acids using coryneform bacteria
OF THE INVENTION The present invention is illustrated in greater detail by the following practical examples. To this end, testing was performed with amino acid producing strains, in which the superio... Read More
Inventors: Marx, Achim; Mockel, Bettina; Pfefferle, Walter; Sahm, Hermann; De Graaf, Albert; Eggeling, Lothar;, Assignee: Degussa Huls AG (Hanau, DE) |
Apparatus for cooling newly formed glass containers
A method of and apparatus for reducing the noise resulting from cooling air at the dead plate of a glass forming machine where air under pressure flowing from a conveyor channel through a compartmente... Read More
Inventors: Dawson, Roy E.;, Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc. (Toledo, OH) |
Apparatus for cultivating algae
What we claim is: 1. An apparatus for cultivating algae, said apparatus comprising (1) a cultivation basin adapted to permit a horizontal circulating flow of cultivation water and composed of a rectan... Read More
Inventors: Shimamatsu, Hidenori; Tominaga, Yutaka;, Assignee: Dainippon Ink & Chemicals Inc. (Tokyo, JP) |
Cyanobacterium-produced bioemulsifier composition and solution thereof
It is an object of the invention to provide a process for the production of a novel emulsifying agent, useful in the emulsification of hydrocarbons and oils. The objective of the invention is achieved... Read More
Inventors: Shilo, Moshe; Fattom, Ali;, Assignee: Solmat Systems, Ltd. (Yavne, IL); Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, IL) |
Process for the production and extraction of polysaccharides from a porphyridium cruentum culture and apparatus for performing the process
We claim: 1. Process for producing and extracting polysaccharides from a culture of the microalga porphyridium cruentum comprising the steps of concentrating pericellular and exocellular polysaccharid... Read More
Inventors: Barnier, Henri; Ferreira Dos Santos, Patrick F.; Gudin, Claude; Thepenier, Catherine;, Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (Paris, FR) |
Process for producing biotin vitamers using novel microorganisms
We claim: 1. A process for producing biotin vitamers which comprises (a) cultivating in a nutrient medium a mutant strain of E. coli having (i) a glucose consumption rate of at most 1/4 the rate of th... Read More
Inventors: Kishimoto, Jiro; Haze, Shinichiro; Ifuku, Ohji;, Assignee: Shiseido Company Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Process for the production of polysaccharide
We claim: 1. A process for the production of polysaccharide consisting of a partially acetylated variable block copolymer of D-mannuronic and L-guluronic acid residues, which comprises cultivating in ... Read More
Inventors: Jarman, Trevor R.; Govan, John R. W.;, Assignee: Talres Development (N.A.) N.V. (AN) |
Method for screening microorganisms for the production of amylolytic enzymes
OF THE INVENTION One criterion of strain improvement is a change in the activity and/or amount of a particular enzyme produced by an organism. In general a screening procedure is employed whereby eac... Read More
Inventors: Horwath, Robert O.;, Assignee: Nabisco Brands, Inc. (Parsippany, NJ) |
Process for obtaining glucose-isomerase
We claim: 1. Process for producing glucose-isomerase, which comprises culturing continuously or discontinuously, under aerobic conditions, a strain of the species Streptomyces griseoflavus A-40 (NCIB-... Read More
Inventors: LLorente Agudo, Nieves; Elia Miguel, Maria F.; Aranguren Escobar, Maria A.; Pares Olivet, Eulalia; Fernandez Garvajosa, Jose M.;, Assignee: Compania Espanola de Petroleos, S.A. (ES) |
Method for the preparation of sorbic acid by oxidizing 2,4-hexadienal with a microorganism
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The microorganism utilizable in the present invention is a microorganism belonging to either one of the above named various genuses and should have an activity to oxide 2... Read More
Inventors: Suzuki, Motoshi; Murakami, Nobuo; Inoue, Akira;, Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Company Limited (Tokyo, JP) |
Citric acid producing mutant yeast strains
What is claimed is: 1. A biologically pure culture of mutant yeast strain, Candida zeylanoides ATCC 20391, exhibiting growth substantially inferior to that of its parent strain in a minimum medium, bu... Read More
Inventors: Takayama, Kenichiro; Adachi, Tetsuo; Kohata, Mamoru; Hattori, Kiyoji; Tomiyama, Tomoko;, Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Process for preparing L-glucosone
We claim: 1. A process for oxidizing L-glucose to L-glucosone which comprises contacting L-glucuose with glucose-2-oxidase produced by a microorganism selected from the group consisting of genera Poly... Read More
Inventors: Horwath, Robert O.; Colonna, William J.;, Assignee: Nabisco Brands, Inc. (Parsippany, NJ) |
Preparation of antibiotic LL-D05139.beta. from cultures of Glycomyces harbinensis, gen. nov., sp. nov.
OF THE INVENTION The new antibacterial agent designated LL-D05139.beta. is formed during the cultivation under controlled conditions of a new strain of a new genus and species named Glycomyces harbin... Read More
Inventors: Lee, May D.; Borders, Donald B.; Labeda, David P.; Fantini, Amedeo A.; Testa, Raymond T.;, Assignee: American Cyanamid Company (Stamford, CT) |
Assay for tumor promoting agents
We claim: 1. A test process for identifying a composition of interest as being within the class consisting of tumor promoters, agents having tumor promoting activity, and complete carcinogens, said te... Read More
Inventors: Penman, Sheldon; Fey, Edward G.;, Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) |
Synthetic method
What is claimed is: 1. A process for the preparation of the compound AQ4 of formula 3: ##STR16## or a salt or N-oxide thereof, including the step: ##STR17## 2. A process as claimed in claim 1 in which... Read More
Inventors: Denny, William Alexander; Lee, Ho Huat;, Assignee: BTG International Limited (London, GB) |
Process of enzymatic conversion of polysaccharides
OF THE INVENTION The B. megaterium is preferably that strain deposited in the National Collection of Industrial Bacteria, Aberdeen, Scotland, under the designation NCIB No. 11568. The enzyme used in ... Read More
Inventors: David, Marie-Henriette; Gunther, Horst; de Troostembergh, Jean-Claude;, Assignee: CPC International Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ) |
Urea silicon product and uses thereof
What is claimed is: 1. The hydrolyzate of: ##STR20## 2. The hydrolyzate of: ##STR21## 3. The process of producing urea substituted silicon compounds which comprises reacting ammonia with the isocyanat... Read More
Inventors: Pepe, Enrico J.; Marsden, James G.;, Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation (New York, NY) |
Aqueous size for glass fibers
We claim: 1. Aqueous composition for the coating of glass fibers, characterized in that it comprises: 0.5 to 15% in weight of at least one starch, 0.05 to 5% of non-ionic lubricant, 0.03 to 2% of cati... Read More
Inventors: Molinier, Jacques; Mahler, Jacques; Bocquet, Gilbert; de Massey, Bernard; Holtmann, Robert;, Assignee: Saint-Gobain Industries (Neuilly-sur-Seine, FR) |
Novel vulcanizable silane-terminated polyurethane polymers
What is claimed is: 1. A process for producing vulcanizable, dihydrocarbyloxysilyl-terminated polyurethane polymers having terminal end-blocking units of the formula: ##STR7## wherein R is C.sub.1 -C.... Read More
Inventors: Pohl, Eric R.; Osterholtz, Frederick D.;, Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation (Danbury, CT) |
Glass coating with improved adhesion and weather resistance
OF THE INVENTION The instant invention pertains to a composition for coating glass which is the reaction product of two components. The first component is a trialkoxysilyl adduct which may be linear ... Read More
Inventors: Harisiades, Paul; Clark, Kirtland P.;, Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation (Ardsley, NY) |
Fully alkoxysilane-functionalized aliphatic polyamine compounds
OF THE INVENTION As used herein the term "fully alkoxysilane-functionalized" is intended to connote that the number of alkoxysilane moieties and reacted amine moieties in the functionalized product a... Read More
Inventors: Wang, Bing; Wilkes, Garth L.;, Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, VA) |
Process for producing nitrile
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In formulae (1) and (2), the group represented by R contains 3 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably 6 to 14 carbon atoms. Suitable alkyl groups, as R, include heptyl, nonyl, un... Read More
Inventors: Oku, Masayuki; Koshino, Junji;, Assignee: Kao Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Process for the production of gamma-butyrolactone
OF THE DRAWINGS Referring to FIG. 1 of the drawings, maleic anhydride is supplied in line 1 to an esterification plant which is also supplied in line 3 with a mixture of makeup 2 ethanol from line 4 ... Read More
Inventors: Harrison, George E.; Harris, Norman;, Assignee: Davy McKee Limited (London, GB2) |
Transgenic animal assay system for anti-cholinesterase substances
The present invention provides a transgenic animal assay system which provides a model system for testing for, and treatment of, cholinergic deficits and imbalances in mammals such as cognitive functi... Read More
Inventors: Soreq, Hermona; Zakut, Haim; Shani, Moshe;, Assignee: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem () |
Superoxide dismutase-4
What is claimed is: 1. An isolated polynucleotide comprising a member selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising amino acid 1 to amino acid 255 as se... Read More
Inventors: Yu, Gu-Liang; Rosen, Craig A.; Fraser, Claire M.; Gocayne, Jeannine D.;, Assignee: Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (Rockville, MD) |
Marek's disease virus vaccine
However, a new strain of serotype I MDV has been found which, following attenuation by serial passage in chick cell cultures produces large amounts of cell-free virus and is more protective than any s... Read More
Inventors: Baxendale, William;, Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V. (Arnhem, NL) |
Human T or B cell lines and a process for producing immunologically active substances using the same
What is claimed as new and desired to be secured by letters patent of the United States is: 1. A human T or B cell line selected from the group consisting of Jurkat cells and Namalwa cells carrying at... Read More
Inventors: Takano, Satoshi; Morioka, Hajimu; Shibai, Hiroshiro; Onodera, Kazukiyo;, Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (Tokyo, JP) |
Nif promoter of fast-growing rhizobium japonicum
OF THE INVENTION The taxon Rhizobium japonicum can be split into two groups, fast-growing rhizobia and slow-growing rhizobia or "bradyrhizobia" (Jordan, D. C. (1982) Int. J. Syst. Bateriol. 32:136-13... Read More
Inventors: Appelbaum, Edward R.;, Assignee: Lubrizol Genetics, Inc. (Wickliffe, OH) |
Macrolide compounds, their preparation and their use
OF THE PRESENT INVENTION In the compounds of formula (I), where R.sup.2 represents a group of the formula --C(CH.sub.3).dbd.CHR.sup.5, the group R.sup.2 is a 1-methyl-1-propenyl, 1-methyl-1-butenyl o... Read More
Inventors: Okazaki, Takao; Takahashi, Shuji; Iwado, Seigo; Tanaka, Keiji; Yanai, Toshiaki; Kajino, Hisaki;, Assignee: Sankyo Company Limited (Tokyo, JP) |
Molecular Biology 
