Cyanobacterium sp. host cell and vector for production of chemical compounds in cyanobacterial cultures

US8846369B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Algenol Biofuels, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Irina Piven · Berlin, DE
• Alexandra Friedrich · Berlin, DE
• Ulf Dühring · Fredersdorf, DE
• Frank Uliczka · Berlin, DE
• Kerstin Baier · Kleinmachnow, DE
• Masami Inaba · Berlin, DE
• Tuo Shi · San Diego, US
• Kui Wang · Nanhu, CN
• Heike Enke · Berlin, DE
• Dan Kramer · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 2013
• Grant date: Sep 30, 2014
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2033

Classification

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

Abstract

A cyanobacterial host cell, Cyanobacterium sp., that harbors at least one recombinant gene for the production of a chemical compounds is provided, as well as vectors derived from an endogenous plasmid isolated from the cell.