Recombinant micelle and method of in vivo assembly
AssigneeMozza Foods, Inc.
InventorCory J. TOBIN
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Abstract
A method of in vivo assembly of a recombinant micelle including: introducing a plasmid into a plant cell, wherein: the plasmid includes a segment of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) for encoding a ribonucleic acid (RNA) for a protein in a casein micelle, the segment of DNA is transcribed and translated; forming recombinant casein proteins in the plant cell, wherein: the recombinant casein proteins include a κ-casein and at least one of an αS1-casein, an αS2-casein, a β-casein; and assembling in vivo a recombinant micelle within the plant cell, wherein: an outer layer of the recombinant micelle is enriched with the κ-casein, an inner matrix of the recombinant micelle include at least one of the αS1-casein, the αS2-casein, the β-casein.
Claims19
A method of expressing a casein protein, comprising:
- expressing the casein protein in a plant cell;
- and
- suppressing expression of a native plant protein or native plant peptide.
A plant cell, comprising:
- 1) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) encoding a casein protein;
- and
- 2) a segment of DNA encoding interference RNA to suppress expression of a native protein or a native peptide in the plant cell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.