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US 2019/0194671 A1Published application
Erythritol production in cyanobacteria
AssigneePhotanol B.V.
InventorsKlaas Jan Hellingwerf, Vinod Puthan Veetil, Aniek Doreen van der Woude
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a process for producing erythritol and to a cyanobacterial cell for the production of erythritol.
Claims10
A cyanobacterial cell capable of expressing, preferably expressing, at least one functional enzyme selected from the group of enzymes consisting of a phosphatase and a reductase;
- preferably of an erythrose-phosphatase, an erythritol-phosphatase, and an erythrose reductase;
- more preferably of an erythrose-4-phosphate reductase and an erythritol-4-phosphate phosphatase, or of an erythrose-4-phosphate phosphatase and an erythrose reductase.
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