Light-driven co2 reduction to organic compounds to serve as fuels or as industrial half products by an autotroph containing a fermentative gene cassette
AssigneeUniversiteit Van Amsterdam
InventorsKlaas Jan Hellingwerf, Maarten Joost Teixeira De Mattos
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Abstract
A process of producing an organic compound and/or an intermediary compound as defined herein by feeding carbon dioxide to a culture of a cyanobacterial cell and subjecting the culture to light, wherein the cell is capable of expressing a nucleic acid molecule, wherein the expression of the nucleic acid molecule confer on the cell the ability to convert a glycolytic intermediate into the organic compound and/or into the intermediary compound and wherein the nucleic acid molecule is under the control of a regulatory system which responds to a change in the concentration of a nutrient in the culture.
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A process of producing an organic compound and/or an intermediary compound produced in the pathway leading to said organic compound by feeding carbon dioxide to a culture of a cyanobacterial cells and subjecting said culture to light, wherein said cell is capable of expressing a nucleic acid molecule, wherein the expression of said nucleic acid molecule confers on the cell the ability to convert a glycolytic intermediate into said organic compound and/or into said intermediary compound and wherein said nucleic acid molecule is under the control of a regulatory system which responds to a change in the concentration of a nutrient in said culture.
A Cyanobacteria capable of expressing a nucleic acid molecule wherein the expression of said nucleic acid molecule confers on the Cyanobacteria the ability to convert a glycolytic intermediate into an organic compound and/or into an intermediary compound produced in the pathway leading to the organic product and wherein the nucleic acid molecule is under the control of a regulatory system which responds to a change in the concentration of a nutrient when culturing said Cyanobacteria.
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