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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2017
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, HK;
Lok Man So, New Territories, HK;
Man Chak Tse, New Territories, HK;
Kai Kin Chi, New Territories, HK;
Yuen Chong Kong, Kowloon, HK;
Sin Yu Yeung, New Territories, HK;
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, HK;
Abstract
A method of producing a polyunsaturated fatty acid in a transgenic bacterium, includes: introducing a recombinant plasmid into a bacteria cell to obtain the transgenic bacterium, wherein the recombinant plasmid comprises a polynucleotide encoding one or more elongase and one or more desaturase; incubating the transgenic bacterium in a medium containing a fatty acid substrate; harvesting the transgenic bacterium, and extracting the polyunsaturated fatty acid from the transgenic bacterium. A method of converting linoleic acid to arachidonic acid and a cassette and recombinant plasmid comprising nucleic acid sequences for the above methods are also provided.