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US 9,068,235 B2Granted
Fungal strains
AssigneeCodexis, Inc.
InventorsDipnath Baidyaroy, Ish Kumar Dhawan
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Abstract
The present invention provides improved fungal strains. In some embodiments, the improved fungal strains find use in hydrolyzing cellulosic material to glucose.
Claims14
A Myceliophthora thermophila fungal cell that has been genetically modified to reduce the amount of endogenous cellobiose dehydrogenase I activity that is secreted by the cell, wherein said cell comprises a deletion in the cellobiose dehydrogenase 1 (cdh1) gene set forth in SEQ ID NO:1.
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