MUMBAI, India, Nov. 21 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517097032 A) filed by Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha, Tokyo, on Oct. 8, for 'method for transforming bacterium belonging to genus bifidobacterium.'
Inventor(s) include Watanabe, Yohei; and Hara, Taeko.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 21, under issue no. 47/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided is a method for efficiently transforming a bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium. The method for transforming a bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium comprises bringing the bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium as a recipient into contact with a bacterium or linear DNA as a donor containing a DNA to be introduced into the recipient, and performing stationary culture, wherein the culture medium used in the stationary culture has a pH of 6.0 or more and less than 10.0 and satisfies the following requirement: when the pH is 6.0 or more and less than 8.5, the content x (mass%) of sugars that can be assimilated by the bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium as the recipient is in the range of 0 x = 0.2 (pH)-1.2; and when the pH is 8.5 or more and less than 10.0, x is in the range of 0.2 (pH)-1.7 = 0.2 (pH)-1.2."
The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 29, 2024, under International application No.PCT/JP2024/012977.
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