Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series inventions 12/06

20060293508 - Stabilization of triflated compounds: Described are novel processes for the synthesis triflated sugars. These sugars are useful for the production of compounds, such as D-1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ) and D-1-deoxygalactonojirimycin (DGJ). In particular, described is a multi-kilogram scale stabilization method for the synthesis of imino sugars.... Agent: Baker & Botts

20060293509 - Water-soluble chitosan having low endotoxin concentration and methods for making and using the same: Water-soluble chitosan having a low concentration of endotoxin is disclosed. Products containing the water-soluble chitosan are also disclosed. Methods of making and using water-soluble chitosan having a low concentration of endotoxin are further disclosed.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20060293510 - Metal complex type nucleic acid: The present invention relates to a double-stranded oligonucleotide derivative, which contains two oligonucleotide derivatives each containing at least one nucleotide derivative wherein a base portion of a nucleotide is substituted with a metal coordination group that is resistant to oxidation and metal atoms, wherein the double strands are formed by... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060293511 - Phosphinoamidite carboxylates and analogs thereof in the synthesis of oligonucleotides having reduced internucleotide charge: e

20060293512 - Novel human uncoupling proteins and polynucleotides encoding the same: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of biological disorders regulatable by the controlled expression or inhibition of the described NUCPs.... Agent: Lexicon Genetics Incorporated

20060293513 - Phosphoserine phosphatase gene of coryneform bacteria: The present invention provides a DNA coding for a protein defined in the following (A) or (B) is obtained from Brevibacterium flavum chromosomal DNA library by cloning a DNA fragment that complicates serB deficiency of Escherichia coli as a open reading frame in the DNA fragment. (A) A protein which... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060293514 - Nucleotide lipid ester derivatives: The subject of the present invention are specific lipidesters of halogenated-adenine nucleotides and the use of such lipidesters in the treatment of tumors.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20060293515 - Imino and amino sugar purification: Novel processes for the purification of an imino or amino sugar, such as D-1-deoxygalactonojirimycin (DGJ). Particularly, there are described processes for the purification of multi-kilogram scale sugars using hydrochloric acid.... Agent: Baker & Botts

20060287512 - Method of controlling the content of selected component(s) from polymer(s) using molecular sieve(s): The invention provides in a first aspect a method for controlling the content of selected component(s) in one or more polymer(s) by: (a) contacting the polymer(s) with at least one molecular sieve; and optionally (b) isolating the polymer from the molecular sieve(s).... Agent: Novozymes, Inc.

20060287513 - Compositions and methods for the therapy and diagnosis of breast cancer: Compositions and methods for the therapy and diagnosis of cancer, particularly breast cancer, are disclosed. Illustrative compositions comprise one or more breast tumor polypeptides, immunogenic portions thereof, polynucleotides that encode such polypeptides, antigen presenting cell that expresses such polypeptides, and T cells that are specific for cells expressing such polypeptides.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20060287514 - Mammalian cytokine-like polypeptide-10: A mammalian cytokine-like polypeptide, called Mammalian Cytokine-like polypeptide-10, (Zcyto10), polynucleotides encoding the same, antibodies which specifically bind to the polypeptide, and anti-idiotypic antibodies which bind to the antibodies. Zcyto10 is useful for promoting the healing of wounds and for stimulating the proliferation of platelets.... Agent: Zymogenetics, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20060287515 - Chemical synthesis of low molecular weight polyglucosamines and polygalactosamines: A process for the synthesis of beta linked low molecular weight polymers of galactosamine and glucosamine has been developed. Through the use of high amounts of activating agents, efficient coupling of stable monomers is achieved. Using this process, chain extension is through the addition of single monomers, providing populations of... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20060287516 - Aminoalkyl-containing guar derivatives: A process for producing aminoalkyl-containing guar derivative is disclosed. The process entails a) dispersing a member selected from the group consisting of guar and guar derivative in a mixture of a water-miscible aprotic solvent and water and b) alkalyizing the member with a base to obtain a mixture containing an... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20060287517 - Preparation of wood pulps with caustic pretreatment for use in the manufacture of cellulose acetates and other organic esters: A process for making cellulose acetate or cellulose esters which pretreats a wood pulp prior to acetylation or esterification is disclosed. The pretreatment of the wood pulp includes the mixture of wood pulp into a caustic solution to form a suspension of wood pulp. The suspension of wood pulp is... Agent: Hammer & Hanf, PC

20060287518 - Methods for preparing alkali cellulose and cellulose ether: Provided is a method for preparing alkali cellulose having alkali distributed uniformly therein. A uniform alkali distribution in the alkali cellulose makes it possible to prepare cellulose ether which has been substituted uniformly in an etherification reaction step. The resulting cellulose ether does not contain a floating water-insoluble portion which... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20060287519 - Ethersuccinylated hydroxyl polymers: Ethersuccinylated hydroxyl polymers, processes for making ethersuccinylated hydroxyl polymers, and uses of ethersuccinylated hydroxyl polymers are provided.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20060281907 - Halogenated aminoquinolines and methods for forming dna triplexes: Novel synthetic monomers that have the capacity to be assembled into defined oligomers which bind with sequence specificity to duplex Watson-Crick DNA via a triple helix motif are provided.... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20060281910 - Alternative splicing factors polynucleotides, polypeptides and uses thereof: The invention provides isolated polynucleotides and their encoded proteins that are involved in splicing or modulating splicing activity. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants, and antibody compositions. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering splicing protein content and/or composition of plants.... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20060281909 - Sequence-determined dna fragments encoding srf-type transcription factor proteins: The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3′ termination... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060281908 - Xylose isomerases, nucleic acids encoding them and methods for making and using them: In one aspect, the invention provides xylose isomerase enzymes, polynucleotides encoding the enzymes, methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The polypeptides of the invention can be used in a variety of agricultural and industrial contexts. For example, the polypeptides of the invention can be used for converting... Agent: Diversa C/o Mofo S.d.

20060281911 - Thermolabile hydroxyl protecting groups and methods of use: Provided is a hydroxyl-protected alcohol comprising a thermolabile hydroxyl-protecting group comprising a 2-pyridyl substituent and a precursor of the thermolabile hydroxyl-protected alcohol. An exemplary thermolabile hydroxyl-protected alcohol is represented by the formula Pg-O—R, wherein Pg is a protecting group of the formula: (Formula) wherein: A is a 2-pyridyl; Z is... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.

20060281912 - Hyaluronan (ha) esterification via acylation technique for moldable devices: A series of novel, melt- or mold-processable HA esters with varying aliphatic chain lengths are synthesized from silyl (HA-quaternary (quat.) ammonium salt complex (preferably silyl HA-CTA, a silylated HA complex with cetyltrimethyl ammonium salt). Introduction of aliphatic acyl groups, preferably acid chlorides, to disrupt the strong HA intermolecular bonding, is... Agent: Jean M. Macheledt

20060281913 - Process for the production of crystalline xylose from sugar cane bagasse, crystalline xylose obtained by said process, process for the production of xylitol from the said xylose and crystalline xylitol obtained thereby: The invention relates to a process for the production of crystalline xylose, from sugar cane bagasse, which xylose consists of microcrystals having a well-defined morphology and a narrow granulometric range, a further object of the invention being the protection of the product, crystalline xylose, manufactured according to the technological route... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060276635 - Rna interference mediated inhibition of gene expression using chemically modified short interfering nucleic acid (sina): The present invention concerns methods and reagents useful in modulating gene expression in a variety of applications, including use in therapeutic, diagnostic, target validation, and genomic discovery applications. Specifically, the invention relates to synthetic chemically modified small nucleic acid molecules, such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA...

20060276636 - Hyaluronate synthase gene and uses thereof: Disclosed are DNA sequences encoding hyaluronic acid synthase that are employed to construct recombinant cells useful in the production of hyaluronata synthase and hyaluronic acid (HA). In preferred aspects, chromosomal DNA encoding the HA synthase gene, hasA, was cloned from a Streptococcus pyoganas genomic library. These vectors were used to...

20060276637 - Antibodies: The application discloses a method of making an antibody molecule, the antibody containing an immunoglobulin heavy chain comprising a α3 domain or a mu domain, the method comprising: (a)Providing a nucleotide sequence encoding the immunoglobulin heavy chain; (b)Modifying the nucleotide sequence in the region of the nucleotide sequence encoding the...

20060276638 - Process of making an alpha-anomer enriched 2-deoxy-2,2-diflouro-d-ribofuranosyl sulfonate and use thereof for making a beta nucleoside: A process of preparing an alpha-anomer enriched 2-deoxy-2,2-difluoro-D-ribofunanosyl sulfonate, which is useful as an intermediate in the preparation of a beta nucleoside, such as gemcitabine, an anti-tumor agent. A beta-2-deoxy-2,2-difluoro-D-ribofunanosyl sulfonate is heated and converted to an alpha-2-deoxy-2,2-difluoro-D-ribofunanosyl sulfonate in the absence of an effective amount of a sulfonate salt...

20060276639 - Conversion of sucralose-6-ester to sucralose: The present disclosure provides a process for producing sucralose from a feed mixture of (a) sucralose-6-ester, such as 6-O-acyl-4,1′,6′-trichloro-4,1′,6′-trideoxygalactosucrose, (b) salt including alkali metal or alkaline earth metal chloride, (c) water, and (d) other chlorinated sucrose by-products, in a reaction medium comprising a tertiary amide, wherein said process comprises deacylating,...