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Title: Engineered microbes and methods for microbial oil production

Abstract

Some aspects of this invention provide engineered microbes for oil production. Methods for microbe engineering and for use of engineered microbes are also provided herein. In some embodiments, microbes are provided that are engineered to modulate a combination of rate-controlling steps of lipid synthesis, for example, a combination of a step generating metabolites, acetyl-CoA, ATP or NADPH for lipid synthesis (a push step), and a step sequestering a product or an intermediate of a lipid synthesis pathway that mediates feedback inhibition of lipid synthesis (a pull step). Such push-and-pull engineered microbes exhibit greatly enhanced conversion yields and TAG synthesis and storage properties.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1416529
Patent Number(s):
9862977
Application Number:
14/547,304
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
C - CHEMISTRY C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES
C - CHEMISTRY C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY C12P - FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE {
DOE Contract Number:  
AR0000059
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2014 Nov 19
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 09 BIOMASS FUELS

Citation Formats

Stephanopoulos, Gregory, Tai, Mitchell, and Chakraborty, Sagar. Engineered microbes and methods for microbial oil production. United States: N. p., 2018. Web.
Stephanopoulos, Gregory, Tai, Mitchell, & Chakraborty, Sagar. Engineered microbes and methods for microbial oil production. United States.
Stephanopoulos, Gregory, Tai, Mitchell, and Chakraborty, Sagar. Tue . "Engineered microbes and methods for microbial oil production". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1416529.
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