Metabolically enhanced photoautotrophic ethanol producing host cells, method for producing the host cells, constructs for the transformation of the host cells, and method of producing ethanol using the host cells

US8404466B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Algenol Biofuels, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kerstin Baier · Kleinmachnow, DE
• Ulf Dühring · Fredersdorf, DE
• Christine Oesterhelt · Berlin, DE
• Karl Ziegler · Zeuthen, DE
• Heike Enke · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 13, 2012
• Grant date: Mar 26, 2013
• Expiry date: Feb 13, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E50/10
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

One embodiment of the invention provides a metabolically enhanced photoautotrophic, ethanol producing host cell comprising: