Enzymes for breaking down moenomycins

US5260206A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Werner Aretz · Königstein, DE
• Dirk Bottger · Liederbach, DE
• Gerhard Seibert · Darmstadt, DE
• Alois Tumulka · Königstein, DE
• Peter Welzel · Bochum, DE
• Kurt Hobert · Bochum, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 3, 1992
• Grant date: Nov 9, 1993
• Expiry date: Sep 3, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S435/832
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A new Bacillus species and the appropriate enzymes obtained therefrom can be used to break down phosphoglycolipid antibiotics. The breakdown products of moenomycins display antibiotic activity or can be used as building blocks for the synthetic preparation of transglycosylas inhibitors.