Metabolically enhanced cyanobacterium with sequentially inducible production genes for the production of a first chemical compound

US9765364B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Algenol Biotech LLC · US

Inventors

• Ulf Dühring · Fredersdorf, DE
• Alexandra Friedrich · Berlin, DE
• Kerstin Baier · Kleinmachnow, DE
• Heike Enke · Berlin, DE
• Dan Kramer · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 14, 2016
• Grant date: Sep 19, 2017
• Expiry date: Apr 14, 2036

Classification

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

Abstract

This invention provides a method for the prolonged production of ethanol using a metabolically enhanced cyanobacterium.