Selected polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences of the methanogenic archaeon, methanococcus jannashii

US6503729B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignees

• The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · US
• The Institute for Genomic Research · US
• THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · US

Inventors

• Carol J. Bult · Bar Harbor, US
• Owen White · Gaithersburg, US
• Hamilton O. Smith · San Diego, US
• Carl R. Woese · Urbana, US
• J. Craig Venter · Village of La Jolla, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 22, 1997
• Grant date: Jan 7, 2003
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07K14/195
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present application describes selected polynucleotide sequence from the 1.66-megabase pair genome sequence of an autotrophic archaeon, Methanococcus jannaschii, and its 58- and 16-kilobase pair extrachromosomal elements.