Acyltransferases and uses thereof in fatty acid production
AssigneeBASF Plant Science GmbH
InventorsToralf Senger, Laurent Marty, Sten Stymne, Jenny Lindberg Yilmaz, Johnathan A. Napier, Olga Sayanova, Richard Haslam, Ruiz Lopez Noemi
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the recombinant manufacture of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Specifically, it relates to acyltransferase polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding said acyltransferases as well as vectors, host cells, non-human transgenic organisms containing said polynucleotides. Moreover, the present invention contemplates methods for the manufacture of polyunsaturated fatty acids as well as oils obtained by such methods.
Claims24
A polynucleotide comprising an expression control sequence operatively linked to a heterologous nucleic acid sequence selected from the group consisting of:
- a) the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 52 or 54;
- b) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 (DGAT2) polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 53;
- c) a nucleic acid sequence having at least 85% sequence identity to the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 52 or 54 and encoding a DGAT2 polypeptide, wherein said polypeptide has diacylglycerol acyltransferase activity;
- and
- d) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a DGAT2 polypeptide having at least 85% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 53, wherein said polypeptide has diacylglycerol acyltransferase activity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.