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AssigneeSolazyme, Inc.
InventorsScott Franklin, Walter Rakitsky, George Rudenko, Xinhua Zhao, Felipe Arana Rodriguez, Wenhua Lu, Janice Wee
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Methods and compositions for the production of dielectric fluids from lipids produced by microorganisms are provided, including oil-bearing microorganisms and methods of low cost cultivation of such microorganisms. Microalgal cells containing exogenous genes encoding, for example, a sucrose transporter, a sucrose invertase, a fructokinase, a polysaccharide-degrading enzyme, a lipid pathway modification enzyme, a fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase, a desaturase, a fatty acyl-CoA/aldehyde reductase, and/or an acyl carrier protein are useful in manufacturing dielectric fluids.
A product comprising microbial oil, wherein the oil has a pour point of less than about −5° C., and wherein the fatty acid composition of the microbial oil is at least 50 area % C18:1 fatty acids and less than 2 area % C18:2 fatty acids, as determined by fatty acid methyl ester gas chromatography flame ionization detection methods.
A dielectric fluid comprising microbial oil produced by a genetically engineered microbe, wherein the dielectric fluid has a pour point of about −10° C. or lower, and wherein the fatty acid composition of the microbial oil is at least 50 area % C18:1 fatty acids and less than 2 area % C18:2 fatty acids, as determined by fatty acid methyl ester gas chromatography flame ionization detection methods.
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