Ethanol production in gram-positive microbes

Ingram, Lonnie O'Neal; Barbosa-Alleyne, Maria D. F.

Ethanol production in gram-positive microbes

Patent · Thu Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1998

OSTI ID:872357

Ingram, Lonnie O'Neal ^[1]; Barbosa-Alleyne, Maria D. F. ^[1]

Gainesville, FL

The subject invention concerns the transformation of Gram-positive bacteria with heterologous genes which confer upon these microbes the ability to produce ethanol as a fermentation product. Specifically exemplified is the transformation of bacteria with genes, obtainable from Zymomonas mobilis, which encode pyruvate decarboxylase and alcohol dehydrogenase.

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Research Organization:: University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

DOE Contract Number:: FG05-86ER13574

Assignee:: University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

Patent Number(s):: US 5916787

OSTI ID:: 872357

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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