US 5,314,812 A · Microbiological process for production of fatty acids having high degree of unsaturation with echinosporangium

Abstract

A process for the production of a highly unsaturated fatty acid comprising the steps of culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Echinosporangium and capable of synthesizing highly unsaturated fatty acids to produce highly unsaturated fatty acids or a lipid containing highly unsaturated fatty acid, and recovering the highly unsaturated fatty acid; and a process for the production of a lipid containing highly unsaturated fatty acids comprising the steps of culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Echinosporangium and capable of synthesizing highly unsaturated fatty acids to produce a lipid containing highly unsaturated fatty acids, and recovering the lipid containing highly unsaturated fatty acids.

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Dependent claims

A process for production of a highly unsaturated fatty acid, comprising the steps of:

culturing a microorganism capable of synthesizing a highly unsaturated fatty acid containing at least three double bonds in the carbon chain and having 20 or 22 carbon atoms, said microorganism belonging to the genus Echinosporangium;
and
recovering the highly unsaturated fatty acid so produced, said acid having at least three double bonds in the carbon chain and having 20 or 22 carbon atoms.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

07/649,144Filed 1 Feb 1991 · continuation

Priority

JP 63-17258913 Jul 1988

Granted

24 May 1994

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

C12P 7/6427
Fatty acids: polyunsaturated fatty acids [PUFA], i.e. having two or more double bonds in their backbone
C12P 7/6432
Polyunsaturated fatty acids [PUFA], i.e. having two or more double bonds in their backbone: eicosapentaenoic acids [EPA]
C12P 7/6434
Polyunsaturated fatty acids [PUFA], i.e. having two or more double bonds in their backbone: docosahexenoic acids [DHA]
C12P 7/6472
Glycerides: containing polyunsaturated fatty acid [PUFA] residues, i.e. having two or more double bonds in their backbone

Microbiological process for production of fatty acids having high degree of unsaturation with echinosporangium

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Microbiological process for production of fatty acids having high degree of unsaturation with echinosporangium

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Abstract

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