Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Microbial engineering for the production of fatty acids and fatty acid derivatives
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Application No.: US14311527Application Date: 2014-06-23
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Publication No.: US10006065B2Publication Date: 2018-06-26
- Inventor: Gregory Stephanopoulos , Syed Hussain Imam Abidi
- Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Main IPC: C12P7/64
- IPC: C12P7/64 ; C12N9/00 ; C12N15/81 ; C12N9/02

Abstract:
Some aspects of this invention relate to methods useful for the conversion of a carbon source to a biofuel or biofuel precursor using engineered microbes. Some aspects of this invention relate to the discovery of a key regulator of lipid metabolism in microbes. Some aspects of this invention relate to engineered microbes for biofuel or biofuel precursor production.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150079645A1 MICROBIAL ENGINEERING FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FATTY ACIDS AND FATTY ACID DERIVATIVES Public/Granted day:2015-03-19
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