Engineered cyanobacteria with enhanced salt tolerance
AssigneeMorgan State University
InventorsViji SITTHER, Behnam Tabatabai
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a recombinant cyanobacterium with enhanced halotolerance and compositions thereof, methods of producing the recombinant cyanobacterium, and methods of using the same for biofuel production. The invention also relates to transformed F. diplosiphon strains with enhanced salt tolerance.
Claims23
A recombinant cyanobacterium comprising at least one polynucleotide encoding a halotolerance gene.
A method for producing biofuel comprising:
- growing a recombinant cyanobacterium comprising at least one polynucleotide encoding a halotolerance gene under conditions suitable for production of a lipid for biofuel production;
- and isolating the lipid.
A method for producing a halotolerant recombinant Fremyella diplosiphon comprising:
- introducing at least one polynucleotide encoding a halotolerance gene into F. diplosiphon.
A plasmid comprising at least one nucleic acid encoding a halotolerance gene.
The plasmid according to claim 19, wherein the halotolerance gene is selected from the group consisting of ApNhaP, ApGMST, ApDMT, Mdh, and HlyB.
A recombinant strain of F. diplosiphon having the characteristics of that deposited in KR912179, or a mutant thereof.
A recombinant strain of F. diplosiphon having the characteristics of that deposited in KP036997.1, or a mutant thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.