SpnG, a gene for spinosyn insecticide biosynthesis

US6521406B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC · US

Inventors

• Richard H. Baltz · Indianapolis, US
• M. Christine Broughton · Indianapolis, US
• Kathryn P. Crawford · Indianapolis, US
• Krishnamurthy Madduri · Woodlawn, US
• Donald J. Merlo · Carmel, US
• Patti J. Treadway · Greenwood, US
• Jan R. Turner · Carmel, US
• Clive Waldron · Indianapolis, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 23, 2000
• Grant date: Feb 18, 2003
• Expiry date: Jun 23, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12P19/62
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Spinosyn biosynthetic genes from Saccharopolyspora spinosa, spinosyn producing microorganisms transformed with the biosynthetic genes, methods using the biosynthetic genes to increase production of spinosyn insecticidal macrolides, and methods using the genes or fragments thereof to change the products produced by spinosyn-producing microorganisms are provided.