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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
May. 21, 2015
Applicant:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Inventors:
Anastasios Melis, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Henning Kirst, Burgwedel, DE;
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/20 (2006.01); C12N 1/12 (2006.01); C12N 13/00 (2006.01); C07K 14/195 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/20 (2013.01); C07K 14/195 (2013.01); C12N 1/12 (2013.01); C12N 13/00 (2013.01); C12N 2510/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention provides methods and compositions for increasing photosynthetic efficiency and biomass production in cyanobacterial cultures by minimizing the phycobilisome light-harvesting antenna size through disruption of the phycocyanin-encoding CPC-operon.