Inositol polyphosphate 2-kinase genes and uses thereof
AssigneeDow AgroSciences LLC
InventorsMark Allen Thompson, Holly Jean Butler, Yuejin Sun, Vipula Kiran Shukla
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Abstract
This invention relates to newly identified polynucleotides and polypeptides in the phytic acid biosynthetic pathways, variants and derivatives of the same; methods for making the polynucleotides, polypeptides, variants, derivatives and antagonists. In particular, the invention relates to polynucleotides encoding inositol polyphosphate 2-kinase (IPP2-K) and polypeptides exhibiting such activity to modulate the phytic acid biosynthesis in such a way as to decrease phytic acid and/or increase the non-phytic acid phosphorous, especially in corn or soy animal feedstuffs.
Claims10
A chimeric polynucleotide that encodes a plant inositol polyphosphate 2-kinase comprising a member selected from the group consisting of:
- (a) a polynucleotide comprising SEQ ID NO:
- 1;
- (b) a polynucleotide comprising at least 97% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 1, wherein the % sequence identity is based on the entire sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 and is determined by GAP 10 analysis using default parameters and the Needleman and Wunsch algorithm;
- and,
- (c) a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising SEQ ID NO:
- 2.
A chimeric polynucleotide that encodes an inositol polyphosphate 2-kinase having at least 98% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 1, wherein the % sequence identity is based on the entire sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 and is determined by GAP 10 analysis using default parameters and the Needleman and Wunsch algorithm.
A chimeric polynucleotide that encodes SEQ ID NO:2.
A chimeric polynucleotide that comprises a sequence of SEQ ID NO:1.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.