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Yeast strains possessing the interrupted ATF2 gene and their applications

US6218139A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Hoechst Marion Roussel · FR

Inventors

Tilman Achstetter · Oberkirch, DE
Gilles Cauet · Thonon-les-Bains, FR
Eric Degryse · Strasbourg, FR

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 1, 1999
Grant date	Apr 17, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 1, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC12P33/00
WIPO fieldBiotechnology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A subject of the invention is a modified yeast strain in which the acetyl-CoA pregnenolone acetyltransferase (APAT) activity is eliminated by altering the gene coding for this activity with resultant stabilization of 3.beta.-hydroxysteroids.

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