Methods and systems for chemoautotrophic production of organic compounds

US8349587B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Curt R. Fischer · Sunnyvale, US
• Austin J. Che · Boston, US
• Reshma P. Shetty · Boston, US
• Jason R. Kelly · Boston, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2011
• Grant date: Jan 8, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2031

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, mechanisms, systems and methods to confer chemoautotrophic production of carbon-based products of interest, such as sugars, alcohols, chemicals, amino acids, polymers, fatty acids and their derivatives, hydrocarbons, isoprenoids, and intermediates thereof, in organisms such that these organisms efficiently convert inorganic carbon to organic carbon-based products of interest using inorganic energy, such as formate, and in particular the use of organisms for the commercial production of various carbon-based products of interest.