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Process for the production of a saccharase inhibitor

US4019960A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC · DE

Inventors

Werner Frommer
Walter Puls · Wuppertal, DE
Delf Schmidt · Wuppertal, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 28, 1973
Grant date	Apr 26, 1977
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 28, 1993

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S435/822
WIPO fieldBiotechnology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a saccharase inhibitor derived from Actinoplanaceae Strain CBS 961.70, including mutants and variants thereof, means for the production of said saccharase inhibitors comprising cultivation of Actinoplanaceae Strain CBS 961.70, including mutants and variants thereof, in appropriate nutrient solutions which are characterized by being starch free under conditions most favorable to growth and production of said saccharase inhibitor and recovering a saccharase inhibitor from culture broths of said nutrient solutions, as well as the use of said inhibitor in pharmaceutically acceptable therapeutic compositions suitable for use in the treatment and relief of conditions indicative of adiposity, diabetes, pre-diabetes, hyperlipaemia (atherosclerosis), caries and the like.

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