Drimenol synthases II
AssigneeFirmenich SA
InventorsYu-Hua Zhang, Michel Schalk, Olivier Haefliger, Xiu-Feng He, Fabienne Deguerry
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of producing drimenol and/or drimenol derivatives by contacting at least one polypeptide with farnesyl diphosphate. The method may be performed in vitro or in vivo. The present invention also provides amino acid sequences of polypeptides useful in the method of the invention and nucleic acid encoding the polypeptides of the invention. The method further provides host cells or organisms genetically modified to express the polypeptides of the invention and useful to produce drimenol and/or drimenol derivatives.
Claims8
A method of producing drimenol comprising:
- i) contacting farnesyl diphosphate (FPP) with a polypeptide having drimenol synthase activity and comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 85% sequence identity to a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:
- 2 and SEQ ID NO:
- 5 to produce the drimenol;
- and
- ii) optionally isolating the drimenol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.