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C12N-C12N00999
  C12N 11/00 - C12N 15/90  

SECTION C– CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY


C 12BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING


C 12 NMICRO-ORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF (biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing micro-organisms, viruses, microbial fungi, enzymes, fermentates, or substances produced by, or extracted from, micro-organisms or animal material A 01 N 63/00; food compositions A 21, A 23; medicinal preparations A 61 K; chemical aspects of, or use of materials for, bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles A 61 L; fertilisers C 05); PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICRO-ORGANISMS (preservation of living parts of humans or animals A 01 N 1/02); MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA (microbiological testing media C 12 Q) [3]


 Notes

(1)Attention is drawn to Notes (1) to (3) following the title of class C 12. [3,4]

(2)In this subclass, it is desirable to add the indexing codes of subclass C 12 R. The indexing codes should be linked. [6]


1/

00Micro-organisms, e.g. protozoa; Compositions thereof (medicinal preparations containing material from micro-organisms A 61 K 35/66; preparing medicinal bacterial antigen or antibody compositions, e.g. bacterial vaccines, A 61 K 39/00); Processes of propagating, maintaining or preserving micro-organisms or compositions thereof; Processes of preparing or isolating a composition containing a micro-organism; Culture media therefor [3]

1/

02.Separating micro-organisms from their culture media [3]

1/

04.Preserving or maintaining viable micro-organisms (immobilised micro-organisms C 12 N 11/00) [3]

1/

06.Lysis of micro-organisms [3]

1/

08.Reducing the nucleic acid content [3]

1/

10.Protozoa; Culture media therefor [3]

1/

11..modified by introduction of foreign genetic material [5]

1/

12.Unicellular algae; Culture media therefor (culture of multi-cellular plants A 01 G; as new plants A 01 H 13/00) [3]

1/

13..modified by introduction of foreign genetic material [5]

1/

14.Fungi (culture of mushrooms A 01 G 1/04; as new plants A 01 H 15/00); Culture media therefor [3]

1/

15..modified by introduction of foreign genetic material [5]

1/

16..Yeasts; Culture media therefor [3]

1/

18...Baker's yeast; Brewer's yeast [3]

1/

19...modified by introduction of foreign genetic material [5]

1/

20.Bacteria; Culture media therefor [3]

1/

21..modified by introduction of foreign genetic material [5]

1/

22.Processes using, or culture media containing, cellulose or hydrolysates thereof [3]

1/

24.Processes using, or culture media containing, waste sulfite liquor [3]

1/

26.Processes using, or culture media containing, hydrocarbons (refining of hydrocarbon oils by using micro-organisms C 10 G 32/00) [3]

1/

28..aliphatic [3]

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30...having five or less carbon atoms [3]

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32.Processes using, or culture media containing, lower alkanols, i.e. C1 to C6 [3]

1/

34.Processes using foam culture [3]

1/

36.Adaptation or attenuation of cells [3]

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38.Chemical stimulation of growth or activity by addition of chemical compounds which are not essential growth factors; Stimulation of growth by removal of a chemical compound (C 12 N 1/34 takes precedence) [3]


3/

00Spore-forming or isolating processes [3]


5/

00Undifferentiated human, animal or plant cells, e.g. cell lines; Tissues; Cultivation or maintenance thereof; Culture media therefor (plant reproduction by tissue culture techniques A 01 H 4/00) [3,5]

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02.Propagation of single cells or cells in suspension; Maintenance thereof; Culture media therefor [3]

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04.Plant cells or tissues [5]

5/

06.Animal cells or tissues [5]

5/

08.Human cells or tissues [5]

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10.Cells modified by introduction of foreign genetic material, e.g. virus-transformed cells [5]

5/

12..Fused cells, e.g. hybridomas [5]

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14...Plant cells [5]

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16...Animal cells [5]

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18....Murine cells, e.g. mouse cells [5]

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20.....one of the fusion partners being a B lymphocyte [5]

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22...Human cells [5]

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24....one of the fusion partners being a B lymphocyte [5]

5/

26...Cells resulting from interspecies fusion [5]

5/

28....one of the fusion partners being a human cell [5]


7/

00Viruses, e.g. bacteriophages; Compositions thereof; Preparation or purification thereof (medicinal preparations containing viruses A 61 K 35/76; preparing medicinal viral antigen or antibody compositions, e.g. virus vaccines, A 61 K 39/00) [3]

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01.Viruses, e.g. bacteriophages, modified by introduction of foreign genetic material (vectors C 12 N 15/00) [5]

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02.Recovery or purification [3]

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04.Inactivation or attenuation; Producing viral sub-units [3]

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06..by chemical treatment [3]

7/

08..by serial passage of virus [3]


9/

00Enzymes, e.g. ligases (6.); Proenzymes; Compositions thereof (preparations containing enzymes for cleaning teeth A 61 K 7/28; medicinal preparations containing enzymes or proenzymes A 61 K 38/43; enzyme containing detergent compositions C 11 D); Processes for preparing, activating, inhibiting, separating, or purifying enzymes (preparation of malt C 12 C 1/00) [3]

Note

 In this group:

 –proenzymes are classified with the corresponding enzymes; [5]

 –enzymes are generally categorised according to the "Nomenclature and Classification of Enzymes" of the International Commission on Enzymes. Where appropriate, this designation appears in the subgroups below in parenthesis. [3]

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02.Oxidoreductases (1.), e.g. luciferase [3]

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04..acting on CHOH groups as donors, e.g. glucose oxidase, lactate dehydrogenase (1.1) [3]

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06..acting on nitrogen containing compounds as donors (1.4, 1.5, 1.7) [3]

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08..acting on hydrogen peroxide as acceptor (1.11) [3]

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10.Transferases (2.) (ribonucleases C 12 N 9/22) [3]

9/

12..transferring phosphorus containing groups, e.g. kinases (2.7) [3]

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14.Hydrolases (3.) [3]

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16..acting on ester bonds (3.1) [3]

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18...Carboxylic ester hydrolases [3]

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20....Triglyceride splitting, e.g. by means of lipase [3]

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22...Ribonucleases [3]

9/

24..acting on glycosyl compounds (3.2) [3]

9/

26...acting on alpha-1, 4-glucosidic bonds, e.g. hyaluronidase, invertase, amylase [3]

9/

28....Alpha-amylase from microbial source, e.g. bacterial amylase [3]

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30.....Fungal source [3]

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32....Alpha-amylase from plant source [3]

9/

34....Glucoamylase [3]

9/

36...acting on beta-1, 4 bonds between N-acetylmuramic acid and 2-acetylamino 2-deoxy-D-glucose, e.g. lysozyme [3]

9/

38...acting on beta-galactose-glycoside bonds, e.g. beta-galactosidase [3]

9/

40...acting on alpha-galactose-glycoside bonds, e.g. alpha-galactosidase [3]

9/

42...acting on beta-1, 4-glucosidic bonds, e.g. cellulase [3]

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44...acting on alpha-1, 6-glucosidic bonds, e.g. isoamylase, pullulanase [3]

9/

46....Dextranase [3]

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48..acting on peptide bonds, e.g. thromboplastin, leucine aminopeptidase (3.4) [3]

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50...Proteinases [3]

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52....derived from bacteria [3]

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54.....bacteria being Bacillus [3]

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56......Bacillus subtilis or Bacillus licheniformis [3]

9/

58....derived from fungi [3]

9/

60.....from yeast [3]

9/

62.....from Aspergillus [3]

9/

64....derived from animal tissue, e.g. rennin [3]

9/

66...Elastase [3]

9/

68...Plasmin, i.e. fibrinolysin [3]

9/

70...Streptokinase [3]

9/

72...Urokinase [3]

9/

74...Thrombin [3]

9/

76...Trypsin; Chymotrypsin [3]

9/

78..acting on carbon to nitrogen bonds other than peptide bonds (3.5) [3]

9/

80...acting on amide bonds in linear amides [3]

9/

82....Asparaginase [3]

9/

84....Penicillin amidase [3]

9/

86...acting on amide bonds in cyclic amides, e.g. penicillinase [3]

9/

88.Lyases (4.) [3]

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90.Isomerases (5.) [3]

9/

92..Glucose isomerase [3]

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94.Pancreatin [3]

9/

96.Stabilising an enzyme by forming an adduct or a composition; Forming enzyme conjugates [3]

9/

98.Preparation of granular or free-flowing enzyme compositions (C 12 N 9/96 takes precedence) [3]

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99.Enzyme inactivation by chemical treatment [3]

   C12N 11/00 - C12N 15/90