Transformed yeasts for producing lysozyme, plasmids used for this transformation, method of producing lysozyme

US5336609A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Labofina, S.A. · BE

Inventors

• Jacques Oberto · Steenokkerzeel, BE
• John Davison · Brussels, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 5, 1989
• Grant date: Aug 9, 1994
• Expiry date: Dec 5, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N15/81
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Transformed yeasts comprising DNA which include at least one copy of a fragment coding for a 1,4-.beta.-N-acetylmuramidase which is expressed in the yeasts as the corresponding active protein, and a process for preparing lysozyme by growing said transformed yeasts.