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A process for the isolation of polyhydroxybutyrate form bacilius mycoides RLJ B-017

This invention provides a strain Bacillus mycoides RLJ B-017 which cab accumulate polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) at higher levels and which can utilize minimal medium containing sucrose for growing conditions. This invention also provides a method of agglomerating PHB granules from lysed Bacillus mycoides RLJ B-017 cells using a solution of sodium hypochlorite,calcium hypochlorite or any metal hypochlorite in chloroform or any polyhalogenated hydrocarbon solvent.

Patent No: IN230954 [India]; US7273733 [USA]

Application No: 425/DEL/2001 [India]; 10/838,654 [USA]

Inventor(s): Manobjyoti Bordoloi; Bornali Borah; Purbali S Thakur; Jagdish Narayan Nigam

Licensing Option: Laboratory willing to jointly develop technology with industrial partner.

Implementing institute: CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology [CSIR-NEIST] 

Funding agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

IPC Classification: C12N 1/20 [India];C12P 7/62 (20060101), C08G 63/00 (20060101), C08G 63/06 (20060101), C08G63/87 (20060101) [USA]

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