Method of producing fatty acids
AssigneeTotal Raffinage Chimie
InventorsZhiwei Zhu, Anastasia Krivoruchko, Jens Nielsen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for producing fatty acids, in particular shot/medium-chain fatty acids (S/MCFA), by expression in a host cell of a recombinant fatty acid synthase (FAS) naturally devoid of a thioesterase (TE) domain comprising a heterologous thioesterase (TE). The invention further relates to polynucleotides comprising such recombinant FAS, polypeptides encoded thereby, and vectors comprising such polynucleotides, as well as recombinant host cells comprising the polynucleotides, polypeptides, or vectors.
Claims17
A recombinant fungal cell comprising, expressing, or capable of expressing a thioesterase (TE) and a fungal fatty acid synthase (FAS) or a FAS1 or a FAS2 subunit thereof, wherein said TE and said fungal FAS, FAS1, or FAS2 are encoded as a single open reading frame (ORF).
A recombinant polynucleic acid encoding a fungal fatty acid synthase (FAS) or a FAS1 or FAS2 subunit thereof, and a thioesterase (TE).
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