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Class Number: 435 Class Title: CHEMISTRY: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 DIFFERENTIATED TISSUE OR ORGAN OTHER THAN BLOOD, PER SE, OR DIFFERENTIATED TISSUE OR ORGAN MAINTAINING; COMPOSITIONS THEREFOR; APPARATUS THEREFOR 2 MAINTAINING BLOOD OR SPERM IN A PHYSIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE STATE OR COMPOSITIONS THEREOF OR THEREFOR OR METHODS OF IN VITRO BLOOD CELL SEPARATION OR TREATMENT 3 CONDITION RESPONSIVE CONTROL PROCESS 4 MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESS INVOLVING ENZYMES OR MICRO-ORGANISMS; COMPOSITION OR TEST STRIP THEREFORE; PROCESSES OF FORMING SUCH COMPOSITION OR TEST STRIP 5 .Involving virus or bacteriophage 6 .Involving nucleic acid 7.1 .Involving antigen-antibody binding, specific binding protein assay or specific ligand-receptor binding assay 7.2 ..Involving a micro-organism or cell membrane bound antigen or cell membrane bound receptor or cell membrane bound antibody or microbial lysate 7.21 ...Animal cell 7.22 ....Parasite or protozoa 7.23 ....Tumor cell or cancer cell 7.24 ....Leukocyte (e.g., lymphocyte, granulocyte, monocyte, etc.) 7.25 ....Erythrocyte 7.3 ...Flagellar-antigen or pili-antigen 7.31 ...Fungi (e.g., yeast, mold, etc.) 7.32 ...Bacteria or actinomycetales 7.33 ....Staphylococcus 7.34 ....Streptococcus 7.35 ....Salmonella 7.36 ....Sexually transmitted disease (e.g., chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea, etc.) 7.37 ....Escherichia coli 7.4 ..To identify an enzyme or isoenzyme 7.5 ..Involving avidin-biotin binding 7.6 ..Involving a modified enzyme (e.g., abzyme, recombinant, chemically altered, etc.) 7.7 ..Assay in which a label present is an apoenzyme, prosthetic group, or enzyme cofactor 7.71 ..Assay in which a label present is an enzyme inhibitor or functions to alter enzyme activity 7.72 ..Assay in which a label present is an enzyme substrate or substrate analogue 7.8 ..Involving nonmembrane bound receptor binding or protein binding other than antigen-antibody binding 7.9 ..Assay in which an enzyme present is a label 7.91 ...Enzyme produces product which is part of another reaction system (e.g., cyclic reaction, cascade reaction, etc.) 7.92 ...Heterogeneous or solid phase assay system (e.g., ELISA, etc.) 7.93 ....Competitive assay 7.94 ....Sandwich assayy 7.95 ....Indirect assay 8 .Involving luciferase 9 .Geomicrobiological testing (e.g., for petroleum, etc.) 10 .Involving uric acid 11 .Involving cholesterol 12 .Involving urea or urease 13 .Involving blood clotting factor (e.g., involving thrombin, thromboplastin, fibrinogen, etc.) 14 .Involving glucose or galactose 15 .Involving transferase 16 ..Involving transaminase 17 ..Involving creatine phosphokinase 18 .Involving hydrolase 19 ..Involving esterase 20 ...Involving cholinesterase 21 ...Involving phosphatase 22 ..Involving amylase 23 ..Involving proteinase 24 ..Involving peptidase 25 .Involving oxidoreductase 26 ..Involving dehydrogenase 27 ..Involving catalase 28 ..Involving peroxidase 29 .Involving viable micro-organism 30 ..Methods of sampling or inoculating or spreading a sample; methods of physically isolating an intact micro-organism 31 ..Testing for sterility condition 32 ..Testing for antimicrobial activity of a material 33 ...Using multifield media 34 ..Determining presence or kind of micro-organism; use of selective media 35 ...Using radioactive material 36 ...Streptococcus; staphylococcus 37 ...Nitrate to nitrite reducing bacteria 38 ...Enterobacteria 39 ...Quantitative determination 40 ....Using multifield media 41 MICRO-ORGANISM, TISSUE CELL CULTURE OR ENZYME USING PROCESS TO SYNTHESIZE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION 42 .Process involving micro-organisms of different genera in the same process, simultaneously 43 .Preparing compound having a 1-thia-4-aza-bicyclo (3.2.0) heptane ring system (e.g., penicillin, etc.) 44 ..By desacylation of the substituent in 6-position 45 ..By acylation of the substituent in 6-position 46 ..In presence of phenyl acetic acid or phenyl acetamide or their derivatives 47 .Preparing compound having a 1-thia-5-aza-bicyclo (4.2.0) octane ring system (e.g., cephalosporin, etc.) 48 ..Di-substituted in 7-position 49 ..Cephalosporin C 50 ..By acylation of the substituent in the 7-position 51 ..By desacylation of the substituent in the 7-position 52 .Preparing compound containing a cyclopentanohydrophenanthrene nucleus; nor-, homo-, or D-ring lactone derivatives thereof 53 ..Containing heterocyclic ring 54 ..Acting on D-ring 55 ...Acting at 17-positionn 56 ....Hydroxylating at 17-position 57 ...Hydroxylating at 16-position 58 ..Hydroxylating 59 ...At 11-position 60 ....At 11 alpha position 61 ..Dehydrogenating; dehydroxylating 62 ...Forming an aryl ring from "A" ring 63 .Preparing compound containing a prostaglandin nucleus 64 .Preparing compound other than saccharide containing a tetracycline nucleus (e.g., naphacene, etc.) 65 .Preparing compound other than saccharide containing a gibberellin nucleus (i.e., gibbane) 66 .Preparing compound other than saccharide containing alloxazine or isoalloxazine nucleus 67 .Preparing compound containing a carotene nucleus (i.e., carotene) 68.1 .Enzymatic production of a protein or polypeptide (e.g., enzymatic hydrolysis, etc.) 69.1 .Recombinant DNA technique included in method of making a protein or polypeptide 69.2 ..Enzyme inhibitors or activators 69.3 ..Antigens 69.4 ..Hormones and fragments thereof 69.5 ..Lymphokines or monokines 69.51 ...Interferons 69.52 ...Interleukins 69.6 ..Blood proteins 69.7 ..Fusion proteins or polypeptides 69.8 ..Signal sequence (e.g., beta-galactosidase, etc.) 69.9 ...Yeast derived 70.1 .Using tissue cell culture to make a protein or polypeptide 70.2 ..Fused or hybrid cells 70.21 ...Producing monoclonal antibody 70.3 ..Animal tissue cell culture 70.4 ...Blood (lymphoid) cell culture 70.5 ....Producing interferons 71.1 .Using a micro-organism to make a protein or polypeptide 71.2 ..Procaryotic micro-organism 71.3 ...Antibiotic or toxin 72 .Preparing compound containing saccharide radical 73 ..Preparing S-glycoside (e.g., lincomycin, etc.) 74 ..Preparing O-glycoside (e.g., glucosides, etc.) 75 ...Oxygen of the saccharide radical is directly bonded to a nonsaccharide heterocyclic ring or a fused- or bridged-ring system which contains a nonsaccharide heterocyclic ring (e.g., coumermycin, novobiocin, etc.) 76 ....The hetero ring has eight or more ring members and only oxygen as ring hetero atoms (e.g., erythromycin, spiramycin, nystatin, etc.) 77 ...Oxygen atom of the saccharide radical is directly linked through only acyclic carbon atoms to a nonsaccharide heterocyclic ring (e.g., bleomycin, phleomycin, etc.) 78 ...Oxygen atom of the saccharide radical is directly bonded to a condensed ring system having three or more carboxyclic rings (e.g., dauomycin, adriamycin, etc.) 79 ...Oxygen atom of the saccharide radical is bonded to a cyclohexyl radical (e.g., kasugamycin, etc.)) 80 ....Cyclohexyl radical is substituted by two or more nitrogen atoms (e.g., destomycin, neamin, etc.) 81 .....Cyclohexyl radical is attached directly to a nitrogen atom of two or more N-C(=N)-N radicals (e.g., streptomycin, etc.) 82 .....Having two saccharide radicals bonded through only oxygen to adjacent ring carbons of the cyclohexyl radical (e.g., ambutyrosin, ribostamycin, etc.) 83 ......Containing three or more saccharide radicals (e.g., liquidomycin, neomycin, lividomycin, etc.) 84 ..Preparing nitrogen-containing saccharide 85 ...N-glycoside 86 ....Cobalamin (i.e., vitamin B12, LLD factor) 87 ....Nucleoside 88 .....Having a fused ring containing a six-membered ring having two N-atoms in the same ring (e.g., purine nucleosides, etc.) 89 ....Nucleotide 90 .....Dinucleotide (e.g., NAD, etc.) 91.1 .....Polynucleotide (e.g., nucleic acid, oligonucleotide, etc.) 91.2 ......Acellular exponential or geometric amplification (e.g., PCR, etc.) 91.21 .......Involving the making of multiple RNA copies 91.3 ......Polynucleotide contains only ribonucleotide monomers 91.31 .......Involving catalytic ribonucleic acid 91.32 .......Prepared from virus, prokaryotic acid 91.33 ........Involving virus 91.4 ......Modification or preparation of a recombinant DNA vector 91.41 .......By insertion or addition of one or more nucleotides 91.42 .......Involving deletion of a nucleotide or nucleotides from a vector 91.5 ......Acellular preparation of polynucleotide 91.51 .......Involving RNA as a starting material or intermediate 91.52 .......Involving a ligase (6.) 91.53 .......Involving a hydrolase (3.) 92 .....Having a fused ring containing a six-membered ring having two N-atoms in the same ring (e.g., purine based mononucleotides, etc.) 93 ..Mashing or wort making 94 ..Produced by the action of an isomerase (e.g., fructose by the action of xylose isomerase on glucose, etc.) 95 ..Produced by the action of a beta-amylase (e.g., maltose by the action of beta-amylase on amylose, etc.) 96 ..Produced by the action of an exo-1.4 alpha glucosidase (e.g., dextrose by the action of glucoamylase on starch, etc.) 97 ..Produced by the action of a glycosyl transferase (e.g., alpha, beta, gamma-cyclodextrins by the action of glycosyl transferase on starch, etc.) 98 ..Produced by the action of an alpha-1, 6-glucosidase (e.g., amylose debranched amylopectin by the action of pullulanase, etc.) 99 ..Produced by the action of a carbohydrase (e.g., maltose by the action of alpha amylase on starch, etc.) 100 ..Disaccharide 101 ..Polysaccharide of more than five saccharide radicals attachedd to each other by glycosidic bonds 102 ...Pullulan 103 ...Dextran 104 ...Xanthan; i.e., xanthomonas-type heteropolysaccharides 105 ..Monosaccharide 106 .Preparing alpha or beta amino acid or substituted amino acid or salts thereof 107 ..Proline; hydroxyproline; histidine 108 ..Tryptophan; tyrosine; phenylalanine; 3,4 dihydroxyphenylalanine 109 ..Aspartic acid (asparaginic acid); asparagine 110 ..Glutamic acid; glutamine 111 ...Utilizing biotin or its derivatives 112 ...Utilizing surfactant fatty acids or fatty acid esters (i.e., having seven or more atoms) 113 ..Methionine; cysteine; cystine 114 ..Citrulline; arginine; ornithine 115 ..Lysine; diaminopimelic acid; threonine; valine 116 ..Alanine; leucine; isoleucine; serine; homoserine 117 .Preparing heterocyclic carbon compound having only O, N, S, Se, or Te as ring hetero atoms 118 ..Containing two or more hetero rings 119 ...Containing at least two hetero rings bridged or fused with a common carbocyclic ring system (e.g., rifamycin, etc.) 120 ..Nitrogen or oxygen hetero atom and at least one other diverse hetero ring atom in the same ring 121 ..Nitrogen as only ring hetero atom 122 ...Containing six-membered hetero ring 123 ..Oxygen as only ring hetero atom 124 ...Containing a hetero ring of at least seven ring members (e.g., zearalenone, macrocyclic lactones, etc.) 125 ...Containing six-membered hetero ring (e.g., fluorescein, etc.) 126 ...Containing five-membered hetero ring (e.g., griseofulvin, etc.) 127 .Preparing compound containing at least three carbocyclic rings 128 .Preparing nitrogen-containing organic compound 129 ..Amide (e.g., chloramphenicol, etc.) 130 .Preparing sulfur-containing organic compound 131 .Preparing organic compound containing a metal or atom other than H, N, C, O, or halogen 132 .Preparing oxygen-containing organic compound 133 ..Containing quinone nucleus (i.e., quinoid structure) 134 ..Fat; fatty oil; ester-type wax; higher fatty acid (i.e., having at least seven carbon atoms in an unbroken chain bound to a carboxyl group); oxidized oil or fat 135 ..Carboxylic acid ester 136 ..Containing a carboxyl group 137 ...Sugar acid having five or more carbon atoms (i.e., aldonic, keto-aldonic, or saccharic acid) 138 ....Alpha-ketogulonic acid (i.e., 2-ketogulonic acid) 139 ...Lactic acid 140 ...Acetic acid 141 ...Propionic or butyric acid 142 ...Polycarboxylic acid 143 ....Having keto group (e.g., alpha-ketoglutaric acid, etc.) 144 ....Tricarboxylic acid (e.g., citric acid, etc.) 145 ....Dicarboxylic acid having four or less carbon atoms (e.g.,, fumaric, maleic, etc.) 146 ...Hydroxy carboxylic acid 147 ..Containing carbonyl group 148 ...Ketone 149 ....Cyclopentanone or cyclopentadione containing compound 150 ....Acetone containing product 151 .....Substrate contains grain or cereal material 152 .....Substrate contains protein as nitrogen source 153 .....Substrate contains inorganic nitrogen source 154 .....Substrate contains inorganic compound, other than water 155 ..Containing hydroxy group 156 ...Aromatic 157 ...Acyclic 158 ....Polyhydric 159 .....Glycerol 160 ....Butanol 161 ....Ethanol 162 .....Multiple stages of fermentation; multiple types of micro-organisms or reuse of micro-organisms 163 .....Produced as by-product, or from waste, or from cellulosic material substrate 164 ......Substrate contains sulphite waste liquor or citrus waste 165 ......Substrate contains cellulosic material 166 .Preparing hydrocarbon 167 ..Only acyclic 168 .Preparing element or inorganic compound except carbon dioxide 169 .Using actinomycetales 170 .Using bacteria 171 .Using fungi 172.1 MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING 172.2 .Fused or hybrid cell formation 172.3 .Recombination 173.1 TREATMENT OF MICRO-ORGANISMS OR ENZYMES WITH ELECTRICAL OR WAVE ENERGY (E.G., MAGNETISM, SONIC WAVES, ETC.) 173.2 .Enzyme treated 173.3 .Modification of viruses (e.g., attenuation, etc.) 173.4 .Cell membrane or cell surface is target 173.5 ..Membrane permeability increased 173.6 ...Electroporation 173.7 ..Lytic effect produced (e.g., disruption of cell membrane for release of subcellular parts; e.g., nucleic acids, etc.) 173.8 .Metabolism of micro-organism enhanced (e.g., growth enhancement or increased production of microbial product) 173.9 .Concentration, separation, or purification of micro-organisms 174 CARRIER-BOUND OR IMMOBILIZED ENZYME OR MICROBIAL CELL; CARRIER-BOUND OR IMMOBILIZED CELL; PREPARATION THEREOF 175 .Multi-enzyme system 176 .Enzyme or microbial cell is immobilized on or in an inorganic carrier 177 .Enzyme or microbial cell is immobilized on or in an organic carrier 178 ..Carrier is carbohydrate 179 ...Carbohydrate is cellulose or derivative thereof 180 ..Carrier is synthetic polymer 181 ...Attached to the carrier via a bridging agent 182 ...Enzyme or microbial cell is entrapped within the carrier (e.g., gel, hollow fibre)) 183 ENZYME (E.G., LIGASES (6. ), ETC.), PROENZYME; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROCESS FOR PREPARING, ACTIVATING, INHIBITING, SEPARATING, OR PURIFYING ENZYMES 184 .Enzyme inactivation by chemical treatment 185 .Malt 186 .Pancreatin 187 .Preparing granular- or free-flowing enzyme composition 188 .Stablizing an enzyme by forming a mixture, an adduct or a composition, or formation of an adduct or enzyme conjugate 188.5 .Catalytic antibody 189 .Oxidoreductase (1. ) (e.g., luciferase) 190 ..Acting on CHOH group as donor (e.g., glucose oxidase, lactate dehydrogenase (1.1)) 191 ..Acting on nitrogen-containing compound as donor (1.2, 1.5, 1.7) 192 ..Acting on hydrogen peroxide as acceptor (1.11) 193 .Transferase other than ribonuclease (2.) 194 ..Transferring phosphorus containing group (e.g., kineases, etc.(2.7)) 195 .Hydrolase (3. ) 196 ..Acting on ester bond (3.1) 197 ...Carboxylic ester hydrolase (3.1.1) 198 ....Triglyceride splitting (e.g., lipase, etc. (3.1.1.3)) 199 ...Ribonuclease (3.1.4) 200 ..Acting on glycosyl compound (3.2) 201 ...Acting on alpha-1, 4-glucosidic bond, (e.g., hyaluronidase, invertase, amylase, etc. (some 3.2.1)) 202 ....Alpha-amylase, microbial source 203 .....Fungal source 204 ....Alpha-amylase, plant source (3.2.1.1) 205 ....Glucoamylase (3.2.1.3) 206 ...Acting on beta-1, 4 link between N-acetylmuramic acid and 2-acetylamino 2 deoxy-D-glucose (e.g., lysozyme, etc.) 207 ...Acting on beta-galatose-glycoside bond (e.g., beta-galactosidase, etc.) 208 ...Acting on alpha-galatose-glycoside bond (e.g., alpha-galactosidase, etc.) 209 ...Acting on beta-1, 4-glucosidic bond (e.g., cellulase, etc. (3.2.1.4)) 210 ...Acting on alpha-1, 6-glucosidic bond (e.g., isoamylase, pullulanase, etc.) 211 ....Dextranase (3.2.1.11) 212 ..Acting on peptide bond (e.g., thromboplastin, leucine amino-peptidase, etc., (3.4)) 213 ...Trypsin; chymotrypsin 214 ...Thrombin 215 ...Urokinase 216 ...Streptokinase 217 ...Plasmin (i.e., fibrinolysin) 218 ...Elastase 219 ...Proteinase 220 ....Derived from bacteria 221 .....Bacteria is bacillus 222 ......Bacillus subtilus or bacillus lichenoformis 223 ....Derived from fungi 224 .....From yeast 225 .....From aspergillus 226 ....Derived from animal tissue (e.g., rennin, etc.)) 227 ..Acting on carbon to nitrogen bond other than peptide bond (3.5) 228 ...Acting on a linear amide linkage in linear amide 229 ....Asparaginase 230 ....Penicillin amidase 231 ...Acting on amide linkage in cyclic amides (e.g., penicillinase, etc.) (3.5.2) 232 .Lyase (4. ) 233 .Isomerase (5. ) 234 ..Glucose isomerase 235.1 VIRUS OR BACTERIOPHAGE, EXCEPT FOR VIRAL VECTOR OR BACTERIOPHAGE VECTOR; COMPOSITION THEREOF; PREPARATION OR PURIFICATION THEREOF; PRODUCTION OF VIRAL SUBUNITS; MEDIA FOR PROPAGATING 236 .Inactivation or attenuation; producing viral subunits 237 ..By serial passage of virus 238 ..By chemical treatment 239 .Recovery or purification 240.1 ANIMAL OR PLANT CELL (E.G., CELL LINES, TISSUES); CULTIVATION OR MAINTENANCE THEREOF; MEDIA THEREFORE 240.2 .Animal cells, per se, culture techniques and media 240.21 ..Techniques of establishing a primary culture 240.22 ..Culture of encapsulated cells 240.23 ..Culture of cells on solid support (e.g., anchorage dependent cells) 240.24 ...Support is suspendable particle 240.241 ...Culture of cells on membrane 240.242 ....Hollow fibre membrane 240.243 ...Solid support treated or coated to enhance attachment or growth 240.25 ..Culture in suspension 240.26 ..Fused or hybrid cells 240.27 ...Ab or Ig fragments producing cells 240.3 ..Culture medium, per se 240.31 ...Defined medium 240.4 .Plant cells, per se, culture techniques and media 240.45 ..Culture techniques (e.g., meristem culture, etc.) 240.46 ...Culture in suspension 240.47 ....Protoplasts 240.48 ...Callus culture 240.49 ....Regeneration (includes nonflowering ornamentals) 240.5 .....Agronomic crops (e.g., tobacco, grains, etc.) 240.51 .....Fruit and vegetable crops (e.g., tomato, etc.) 240.54 ..Culture medium, per se, or regeneration medium, per se 242 SPORE FORMING OR ISOLATING PROCESS 243 MICRO-ORGANISM, PER SE (E.G., PROTOZOA, ETC.); COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROCES OF PROPAGATING, MAINTAINING OR PRESERVING MICRO-ORGANISMS OR COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROCESS OF PREPARING OR ISOLATING A COMPOSITION CONTAINING A MICRO-ORGANISM; CULTURE MEDIA THEREFOR 244 .Chemical stimulation of growth or activity by addition of chemical compound which is not an essential growth factor; stimulation of growth by removal of a chemical compound 245 .Adaptation or attenuation of cells 246 .Foam culture 247 .Utilizing media containing lower alkanol (i.e., having one to six carbon atoms) 248 .Utilizing media containing hydrocarbonn 249 ..Aliphatic 250 ...Having five or less carbon atoms 251 .Utilizing media containing waste sulphite liquor 252 .Utilizing media containing cellulose or hydrolysates thereof 252.1 .Bacteria or actinomycetales; media therefor 252.2 ..Rhizobium or agrobacterium 252.3 ..Transformants (e.g., recombinant DNA or vector or foreign or exogenous gene containing, fused bacteria, etc.) 252.31 ...Bacillus (e.g., B. subtilis, B. thuringiensis, etc.) 252.32 ...Brevibacterium or corynebacterium 252.33 ...Escherichia (e.g., E. coli, etc.) 252.34 ...Pseudomonas 252.35 ...Streptomyces 252.4 ..Mixed culture 252.5 ..Bacillus (e.g., B. subtilis, B. thuringiensis, etc.) 252.6 ..Actinoplanes 252.7 ..Clostridium 252.8 ..Escherichia (e.g., E. coli, etc.) or salmonella 252.9 ..Lactobacillus, pediococcus, or leuconostoc 253.1 ..Mycobacterium 253.2 ..Nocardia 253.3 ..Pseudomonas 253.4 ..Streptococcus 253.5 ..Streptomyces 253.6 ..Culture media, per se 254.1 .Fungi 254.11 ..Transformants 254.2 ...Yeast; media therefor 254.21 ....Saccharomyces 254.22 ....Candida 254.23 ....Pichia 254.3 ...Aspergillus 254.4 ...Neurospora 254.5 ...Penicillium 254.6 ...Trichoderma 254.7 ...Fusarium 254.8 ...Mucor 254.9 ...Rhizopus 255.1 ..Yeast 255.2 ...Saccharomyces 255.21 ....Culture media, per se, or technique 255.3 ...Cryptococcus 255.4 ...Candida or torulopsis 255.5 ...Pichia 255.6 ...Hansenula 255.7 ...Culture media, per se, or technique 256.1 ..Aspergillus 256.2 ..Mucor 256.3 ..Penicillium 256.4 ..Cephalosporium or acremonium 256.5 ..Fusarium 256.6 ..Rhizopus 256.7 ..Trichoderma 256.8 ..Culture media, per se, or technique 257.1 .Algae, media therefor 257.2 ..Transformants 257.3 ..Chlorella 257.4 ..Euglenaa 257.5 ..Scenedesmus 257.6 ..Chlamydomonas 258.1 .Protozoa, media therefor 258.2 ..Plasmodium 258.3 ..Leishmania 258.4 ..Eimeria 259 .Lysis of micro-organism 260 .Preserving or maintaining micro-organism 261 .Separation of micro-organism from culture media 320.1 VECTOR, PER SE (E.G., PLASMID, HYBRID PLASMID, COSMID, VIRAL VECTOR, BACTERIOPHAGE VECTOR, ETC.) BACTERIOPHAGE VECTOR, ETC.) 262 PROCESS OF UTILIZING AN ENZYME OR MICRO-ORGANISM TO DESTROY HAZARDOUS OR TOXIC WASTE, LIBERATE, SEPARATE, OR PURIFY A PREEXISTING COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION THEREFORE; CLEANING OBJECTS OR TEXTILES 262.5 .Destruction of hazardous or toxic waste 263 .Textile treating 264 .Cleaning using a micro-organism or enzyme 265 .Depilating hides, bating, or hide treating using enzyme or micro-organism 266 .Treating gas, emulsion, or foam 267 .Treating animal or plant material or micro-organism 268 ..Treating organ or animal secretion 269 ..Treating blood fraction 270 ..Removing nucleic acid from intact or disrupted cell 271 ..Glyceridic oil, fat, ester-type wax, or higher fatty acid recovered or purified 272 ..Proteinaceous material recovered or purified 273 ...Collagen or gelatin 274 ..Carbohydrate material recovered or purified 275 ...Pectin or starch 276 ...Sugar (e.g., molasses treatment, etc.) 277 ...Cellulose (e.g., plant fibers, etc.) 278 ....Producing paper pulp 279 ....Hemp or flax treating 280 .Resolution of optical isomers or purification of organic compounds or composition containing same 281 .Petroleum oil or shale oil treating 282 ..Desulfurizing 283 ORGAN PERFUSION APPARATUS 284 TISSUE, ANIMAL OR PLANT CELL, OR VIRUS CULTURE APPARATUS 285 .With means providing thin layers 286 .With means providing suspensions 287 APPARATUS 288 .For use of free or immobilized enzyme 289 .Including condition or time responsive control 290 ..Temperature responsive control 291 .Including measuring or testing with condition sensing or measuring means 292 .Inoculator streaker or sampler 293 ..Multifield or continuous 294 ..Sampler or inoculator is part of container 295 ...Sampler or inoculator is swab 296 .Tube or bottle 297 .Petri dish 298 ..Including cover seal 299 .Containing or adapted to contain solid mediaa 300 ..Multiple field or compartment 301 ...Horizontal, planar field 302 .Malting or mashing apparatus 303 ..Rotary drum 304 ..Cascade or vertically spaced stages 305 ..With agitator or mash turner 306 ...With horizontal axis of rotation 307 ...With vertical axis of rotation 308 ....Rakes 309 ..With multilevel gas introduction means 310 .With means providing thin layer or with multilevel trays 311 .With sterilizer or filtration means 312 .Rotatably mounted 313 .With gas introduction means 314 ..With draft tube 315 ..With agitator 316 .With agitator or heat exchanger 317.1 MISCELLANEOUS (E.G., SUBCELLULAR PARTS OF MICRO-ORGANISMS, ETC.) * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS * ****************************** 800 ELIMINATION OR REDUCTION OF CONTAMINATION BY UNDERSIRED FERMENTS (E.G., ASEPTIC CULTIVATION) 801 ANEROBIC CULTIVATION 802 LOGARITHMIC GROWTH PHASE 803 PHYSICAL RECOVERY METHODS (E.G., CHROMATOGRAPHY, GRINDING) 804 SINGLE CELL PROTEIN 805 TEST PAPERS 806 FERTILITY TESTS 807 GAS DETECTION APPARATUS 808 OPTICAL SENSING APPARATUS 809 INCUBATORS OR RACKS OR HOLDERS FOR CULTURE PLATES OR CONTAINERS 810 PACKAGED DEVICE OR KIT 811 INTERFERON 812 FOAM CONTROL 813 CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION 814 ENZYME SEPARATION OR PURIFICATION 815 .By sorption 816 .By solubility 817 ENZYME OR MICROBE ELECTRODE 818 AERATION OR OXYGEN TRANSFER TECHNIQUE 819 FERMENTATION VESSELS IN SERIES 820 SUBCELLULAR PARTS OF MICRO-ORGANISMS 821 MICRO-ORGANISMS USED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF HAZARDOUS OR TOXIC WASTE * ****************************** * MICRO-ORGANISM CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS * ****************************** 822 .Using bacteria or actinomycetales 823 ..Acetobacter 824 ..Achromobacter 825 ..Actinomadura 826 ..Actinomyces 827 ..Actinoplanes 828 ..Aerobacter 829 ..Alcaligenes 830 ..Arthrobacterr 831 ..Azotobacter 832 ..Bacillus 833 ...Bacillus brevis 834 ...Bacillus cereus 835 ...Bacillus circulans 836 ...Bacillus licheniformis 837 ...Bacillus megaterium 838 ...Bacillus polymyxa 839 ...Bacillus subtilis 840 ..Brevibacterium 841 ..Chainia 842 ..Clostridium 843 ..Corynebacterium 844 ...Corynebacterium diphtheriae 845 ...Corynebacterium poinsettiae 846 ...Corynebacterium pyogenes 847 ..Erwinia 848 ..Escherichia 849 ...Escherichia coli 850 ..Flavobacterium 851 ..Haemophilus 852 ..Klebsiella 853 ..Lactobacillus 854 ...Lactobacillus acidophilus 855 ...Lactobacillus brevis 856 ...Lactobacillus casei 857 ...Lactobacillus plantarum 858 ..Methylomonas 859 ..Micrococcus 860 ...Micrococcus flavus 861 ...Micrococcus glutamicus 862 ...Micrococcus lysodeikticus 863 ..Mycobacterium 864 ...Mycobacterium avium 865 ...Mycobacterium fortuitum 866 ...Mycobacterium smegmatis 867 ..Micromonospora 868 ...Micromonospora chalcea 869 ...Micromonospora purpurea 870 ..Mycoplasma 871 ..Neisseria 872 ..Nocardia 873 ..Proteus 874 ..Pseudomonas 875 ...Pseudomonas aeruginosa 876 ...Pseudomonas fluorescens 877 ...Pseudomonas putida 878 ..Rhizobium 879 ..Salmonella 880 ..Serratia 881 ...Serratia marcescens 882 ..Staphylococcus 883 ...Staphylococcus aureus 884 ...Staphylococcus epidermidis 885 ..Streptococcus 886 ..Streptomyces 887 ...Streptomyces albus 888 ...Streptomyces antibioticuss 889 ...Streptomyces aureofaciens 890 ...Streptomyces aureus 891 ...Streptomyces bikiniensia 892 ...Streptomyces candidus 893 ...Streptomyces chartreusis 894 ...Streptomyces diastatochromogenes 895 ...Streptomyces filipinensis 896 ...Streptomyces fradiae 897 ...Streptomyces griseus 898 ...Streptomyces hygroscopicus 899 ...Streptomyces lavendulae 900 ...Streptomyces lincolnensis 901 ...Streptomyces noursei 902 ...Streptomyces olivaceus 903 ...Streptomyces platensis 904 ...Streptomyces rimosus 905 ...Streptomyces sparogenes 906 ...Streptomyces venezuelae 907 ..Streptosporangium 908 ..Streptovirticillium 909 ..Vibrio 910 ..Xanthomonas 911 .Using fungi 912 ..Absidia 913 ..Aspergillus 914 ...Aspergillus awamori 915 ...Aspergillus flavus 916 ...Aspergillus fumigatus 917 ...Aspergillus niger 918 ...Aspergillus oryzae 919 ...Aspergillus ustus 920 ...Aspergillus wenti 921 ..Candida 922 ...Candida albicans 923 ...Candida lipolytica 924 ...Candida tropicalis 925 ..Cephalosporium 926 ...Cephalosporium acremonium 927 ...Cephalosporium caerulens 928 ...Cephalosporium crotocinigenium 929 ..Fusarium 930 ..Hansenula 931 ..Mucor 932 ..Paecilomyces 933 ..Penicillium 934 ...Penicillium brevi 935 ...Penicillium chrysogenum 936 ...Penicillium notatium 937 ...Penicillium patulum 938 ..Pichia 939 ..Rhizopus 940 ..Saccharomyces 941 ...Saccharomyces carlsbergensis 942 ...Saccharomyces cerevisiae 943 ...Saccharomyces lactis 944 ..Torulopsis 945 ..Trichoderma 946 .Using algaee 947 .Using protozoa 948 .Using viruses or cell lines * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTION * RELATED TO SUBCLASSES * 7.1 THROUGH 7.95 * ****************************** 960 IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL ASSAY 961 INCLUDING A STEP OF FORMING, RELEASING, OR EXPOSING THE ANTIGEN OR FORMING THE HAPTEN-IMMUNOGENIC CARRIER COMPLEX OR THE ANTIGEN, PER SE 962 PREVENTION OR REMOVAL OF INTERFERING MATERIALS OR REACTANTS OR OTHER TREATMENT TO ENHANCE RESULTS (E.G., DETERMINING OR PREVENTING NONSPECIFIC BINDING, ETC.) 963 METHODS OF STOPPING AN ENZYME REACTION OR STABILIZING THE TEST MATERIALS 964 INCLUDING ENZYME-LIGAND CONJUGATE PRODUCTION (E.G., REDUCING RATE OF NONPRODUCTIVE LINKAGE, ETC.) 965 INVOLVING IDIOTYPE OR ANTI-IDIOTYPE ANTIBODY 966 INVOLVING AN ENZYME SYSTEM WITH HIGH TURNOVER RATE OR COMPLEMENT MAGNIFIED ASSAY (E.G., MULTI-ENZYME SYSTEMS, ETC.) 967 STANDARDS, CONTROLS, MATERIALS (E.G., VALIDATION STUDIES, BUFFER SYSTEMS, ETC.) 968 HIGH ENERGY SUBSTRATES (E.G., FLUORESCENT, CHEMILUMINESCENT, RADIOACTIVE, ETC.) 969 MULTIPLE LAYERING OF REACTANTS 970 TEST STRIP OR TEST SLIDE 971 CAPTURE OF COMPLEX AFTER ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTION 972 MODIFIED ANTIBODY (E.G., HYBRID, BIFUNCTIONAL, ETC.) 973 SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF MORE THAN ONE ANALYTE 974 AIDS RELATED TEST 975 KIT