Engineered CO2 fixing microorganisms producing carbon-based products of interest

US7981647B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Joule Unlimited, Inc. · US

Inventors

• David Arthur Berry · Brookline, US
• Dan E. Robertson · San Diego, US
• Frank A. Skraly · Watertown, US
• Brian D. Green · Cambridge, US
• Christian Perry Ridley · Acton, US
• Sriram Kosuri · Cambridge, US
• Nikos Basil Reppas · Brookline, US
• Martha Sholl · Haverhill, US
• Noubar B. Afeyan · Lexington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 3, 2009
• Grant date: Jul 19, 2011
• Expiry date: Mar 3, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E50/30
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present disclosure identifies pathways and mechanisms to confer production of carbon-based products of interest such as ethanol, ethylene, chemicals, polymers, n-alkanes, isoprenoids, pharmaceutical products or intermediates thereof in photoautotrophic organisms such that these organisms efficiently convert carbon dioxide and light into carbon-based products of interest, and in particular the use of such organisms for the commercial production of ethanol, ethylene, chemicals, polymers, alkanes, isoprenoids, pharmaceutical products or intermediates thereof.