Efficient production of biofuels from cells carrying a metabolic-bypass gene cassette
AssigneeEbio, LLC
InventorTrent Nguyen
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Abstract
A process for increasing the production of a glycolytic intermediate and/or an organic compound as defined herein by a cell that is able to express a nucleic acid molecule, wherein the expression of the nucleic acid molecule gives the cell the ability to increase the production of a glycolytic intermediate and/or the organic compound and wherein the carbon substrate is sugar and/or protein.
Claims6
A process for increasing the production of pyruvate and ethanol from a carbon substrate of sugar or protein by a bacterial cell in culture, wherein the bacterial cell comprises a nucleic acid having a CAG/CAA repeat that encodes a polyglutamine protein with at least 37 glutamine residues and expression of the nucleic acid gives the bacterial cell the ability to increase the production of pyruvate and ethanol.
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