Engineering microorganisms to increase ethanol production by metabolic redirection

Deng, Yu; Olson, Daniel G.; van Dijken, Johannes Pieter; Shaw, IV, Arthur J.; Argyros, Aaron; Barrett, Trisha; Caiazza, Nicky; Herring, Christopher D.; Rogers, Stephen R.; Agbogbo, Frank

Engineering microorganisms to increase ethanol production by metabolic redirection

Patent · Tue Oct 31 04:00:00 EDT 2017

OSTI ID:1406573

Deng, Yu; Olson, Daniel G.; van Dijken, Johannes Pieter; Shaw, IV, Arthur J.; Argyros, Aaron; Barrett, Trisha; Caiazza, Nicky; Herring, Christopher D.; Rogers, Stephen R.; Agbogbo, Frank

The present invention provides for the manipulation of carbon flux in a recombinant host cell to increase the formation of desirable products. The invention relates to cellulose-digesting organisms that have been genetically modified to allow the production of ethanol at a high yield by redirecting carbon flux at key steps of central metabolism.

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Research Organization:: Enchi Corporation, Wellesley Hills, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: FC36-07GO17057

Assignee:: Enchi Corporation

Patent Number(s):: 9,803,221

Application Number:: 14/348,231

OSTI ID:: 1406573

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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