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US 11,230,750 B2Granted
Engineered microbes for rare earth element adsorption
AssigneesLawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
InventorsYongqin Jiao, Dan McFarland Park, Mimi Cho Yung, David W. Reed
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Abstract
Presently described are engineered microbes modified such that the surface of the microbe contains one or more rare earth element (REE) binding ligands, as well as methods of use thereof.
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A genetically engineered microbe comprising an exogenous nucleic acid sequence encoding a rare earth element (REE) binding ligand, wherein the REE binding ligand comprises more than 6 copies of double lanthanide binding tags (dLBTs) connected by a flexible and hydrophilic linker.
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