Glyphosate-N-acetyltransferase (GAT) genes

US7863503B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC. · US
• E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY · US
• Verdia Inc. · US

Inventors

• Linda A. Castle · Mountain View, US
• Dan Siehl · Menlo Park, US
• Lorraine Giver · Sunnyvale, US
• Jeremy Minshull · Los Altos, US
• Christina Ivy · Encinitas, US
• Yong Chen · Foster City, US
• Phillip A. Patten · Portola Valley, US
• Rebecca Gorton · San Francisco, US
• Nicholas B. Duck · Apex, US
• Billy F. McCutchen · College Station, US
• Roger Kemble · Wake Forest, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 21, 2008
• Grant date: Jan 4, 2011
• Expiry date: Sep 4, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N15/8275
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Novel proteins are provided herein, including proteins capable of catalyzing the acetylation of glyphosate and other structurally related proteins. Also provided are novel polynucleotides capable of encoding these proteins, compositions that include one or more of these novel proteins and/or polynucleotides, recombinant cells and transgenic plants comprising these novel compounds, diversification methods involving the novel compounds, and methods of using the compounds. Some of the novel methods and compounds provided herein can be used to render an organism, such as a plant, resistant to glyphosate.