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Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2017
Applicant:

City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, HK;

Inventors:

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;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/64 (2006.01); C12N 9/10 (2006.01); C12N 9/02 (2006.01); C12N 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/6427 (2013.01); C12N 9/0071 (2013.01); C12N 9/10 (2013.01); C12N 9/93 (2013.01); C12Y 114/19 (2013.01); C12Y 114/19004 (2013.01); C12Y 602/01003 (2013.01);
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.


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