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US 2026/0209683 A1Published application
Lipid producing marine microalga
OwnerJohn A.C. ARCHER, Noor Azlin MOKHTARinventors
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Abstract
The invention provides marine microalgal strain of the Ulvales order of the Ulvophyceae class which have utility in the efficient and environmentally beneficial preparation of triacylglycerides and polyunsaturated fatty acids, which can in turn be used for fuels or feeds.
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A marine microalgal strain of the Ulvales order of the Ulvophyceae class characterised by at least 5, 6, 7, or 8 of the following properties:
- (i) being unicellular and uni-nucleate;
- (ii) non motile, without cilia nor flagellae;
- (iii) having generally spherical cells;
- (iv) having a diameter of about 1.00 to 11.0 μm, more preferably 1.5 μm to 10.3 μM;
- (v) having an extracellular polysaccharide capsule 0.215 μm to 0.344 μm thick;
- (vi) having chloroplasts that are parietal and a single pyrenoid;
- (vii) includes lipid bodies.
- (viii) capable of asexual reproduction within maternal capsule through two sequential divisions at approximately 90° to each other into 4 nonmotile daughter cells enclosed within their own capsule, daughter cells released by rupture of maternal cell envelope,
- said strain also:
- (ix) having from 120-300 thylakoid membranes per chloroplast
- (x) having an 18S rRNA which exhibits 97% or higher base sequence homology with the 18S rRNA sequence shown in FIG. 5
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A microalgal strain characterized in that it consists of an isolated strain deposited at the CCAP under accession number CCAP 2271/1, CCAP 2271/2 or CCAP 2271/3.
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