Uses of novel fatty acid desaturases and elongases and products thereof
AssigneeBASF Plant Science GmbH
InventorsJörg Bauer, Johnathan A. Napier, Olga Sayanova
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Abstract
The invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules which encode novel fatty acid desaturases and elongases from the organism Emiliana huxleyi. The invention also provides recombinant expression vectors containing desaturase or elongase nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and methods for large-scale production of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs), e.g. arachidonic acid (ARA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) or docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
Claims6
A polynucleotide comprising an expression control sequence operatively linked to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having Δ-4-desaturase activity and having an amino acid sequence which has at least 90% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
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- wherein the expression control sequence is heterologous to the nucleic acid sequence.
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