Glyphosate-N-acetyltransferase (GAT) genes

US7998703B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

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

Inventors

• Linda A. Castle · Mountain View, US
• Dan Siehl · Menlo Park, US
• Lorraine Giver · Sunnyvale, US
• Jeremy Minshull · Los Altos, US
• Cristina 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: Apr 1, 2009
• Grant date: Aug 16, 2011
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12Y205/01019
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

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