Processes for producing polyunsaturated fatty acids in transgenic organisms
AssigneeBASF Plant Science GmbH
InventorsJörg Bauer, Tom Wetjen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to polynucleotides from Ostreococcus lucimarinus which code for desaturases and elongases and which can be employed for the recombinant production of polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention furthermore relates to vectors, host cells and transgenic nonhuman organisms which comprise the polynucleotides, and to the polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides. Finally, the invention also relates to production processes for the polyunsaturated fatty acids and for oil, lipid and fatty acid compositions.
Claims15
A polynucleotide comprising an expression control sequence operably linked to a heterologous nucleic acid sequence selected from the group consisting of:
- a) the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 9;
- b) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 10;
- c) a nucleic acid sequence having at least 85% sequence identity to the nucleic acid sequence of a) or b);
- and
- d) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having at least 85% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 10,
- wherein said heterologous nucleic acid sequence encodes a polypeptide having desaturase activity.
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