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Method for the production of 1,3-propanediol by recombinant microorganisms

US6013494A · kind A · utility

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Assignees

E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY · US
GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL, INC. · US

Inventors

Charles E. Nakamura · Claymont, US
Anthony A. Gatenby · Wilmington, US
Amy Kuang-Hua Hsu · Loomis, US
Richard D. La Reau · Mountain View, US
Sharon L. Haynie · Philadelphia, US
Maria Diaz-Torres · Los Gatos, US
Donald E. Trimbur · Palo Alto, US
Gregory M. Whited · Belmont, US
Vasantha Nagarajan · Wilmington, US
Mark S. Payne · Wilmington, US
Stephen Picataggio · Rockland, US
Ramesh Nair · Ankeny, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 12, 1997
Grant date	Jan 11, 2000
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 12, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S530/824
WIPO fieldBiotechnology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Recombinant organisms are provided comprising genes encoding glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, glycerol-3-phosphatase, glycerol dehydratase and 1,3-propanediol oxidoreductase activites useful for the production of 1,3-propanediol from a variety of carbon substrates.

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