Carotenoid-associated proteins useful for high carotenoid accumulation and production in plants and other organisms
AssigneeYissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
InventorsAlexander Vainstein, Michael Vishnevetsky, Marianna Ovadis, Hanan Itzhaki
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Abstract
A method for production of high amounts of carotenoids in plants, bacteria or cells. Carotenoid-associated proteins CHRC and CHRD isolated from corollas of Cucumis sativus, chrc gene, CHRC deduced sequence, the molecular cloning, cDNA and RNA. A new CHRC promoter able to direct expression for foreign genes. The cloned promoter comprising approximately 3.5 Kb of the CHRC upstream region.
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An isolated nucleic acid comprising consecutive nucleotides which encode a protein which comprises consecutive amino acids having the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:
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An isolated nucleic acid comprising consecutive nucleotides having the sequence of a promoter of CHRC gene expression as set forth in SEQ ID NO:10.
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