Genetically modified cyanobacteria for the production of ethanol

US9650642B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Algenol Biotech LLC · US

Inventors

• R. Paul Woods · Naples, US
• Craig R. Smith · Naples, US
• Dan Kramer · Berlin, DE
• Heike Enke · Berlin, DE
• Ulf Dühring · Fredersdorf, DE
• Kerstin Baier · Kleinmachnow, DE
• Marianne Grundel · Berlin, DE
• Wolfgang Lockau · Berlin, DE
• Karl Ziegler · Zeuthen, DE
• Christine Oesterhelt · Berlin, DE
• John Robert Coleman · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 9, 2009
• Grant date: May 16, 2017
• Expiry date: Apr 7, 2035

Classification

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

Abstract

The invention provides novel compositions of matter for the production of ethanol from carbon dioxide and water. Particularly, the invention provides photoautotrophic organisms having a first and second genetic modification, wherein the first genetic modification improves the ethanol production from organisms having the second genetic modification.