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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.:

US 11787843 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2021

High productivity algal mutants having reduced photosynthetic antenna

Applicant:

Synthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA (US);

Inventors:

Eric R. Moellering, San Diego, CA (US);

Nicholas Bauman, San Diego, CA (US);

Randor R. Radakovits, Poway, CA (US);

Roberto Spreafico, San Diego, CA (US);

Fedor Kuzminov, San Diego, CA (US);

Imad Ajjawi, San Diego, CA (US);

Saheed Imam, San Diego, CA (US);

Andrew Schultz, San Diego, CA (US);

Kathleen Kwok, San Diego, CA (US);

Moena Aqui, San Diego, CA (US);

Jennifer Nominati, San Diego, CA (US);

John Verruto, San Diego, CA (US);

Shaun Bailey, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Viridos, Inc., La Jolla, CA (US);

Attorney:

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Primary Examiner:

Russell Kallis

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/12 (2006.01); C07K 14/405 (2006.01); C12N 1/36 (2006.01); C12N 15/82 (2006.01); C12P 21/00 (2006.01); C12N 15/01 (2006.01); C12P 7/6445 (2022.01); A01H 1/06 (2006.01); C12P 7/649 (2022.01); C12P 7/6454 (2022.01); C12R 1/89 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K 14/405 (2013.01); A01H 1/06 (2013.01); C12N 1/12 (2013.01); C12N 1/125 (2021.05); C12N 1/36 (2013.01); C12N 15/01 (2013.01); C12N 15/8269 (2013.01); C12P 7/649 (2013.01); C12P 7/6445 (2013.01); C12P 7/6454 (2013.01); C12P 21/00 (2013.01); C12R 2001/89 (2021.05); Y02E 50/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are mutant photosynthetic microorganisms having an attenuated SGI1 gene. The mutants have reduced chlorophyll and increased productivity with respect to wild type cells. Also disclosed are methods of using such mutants for producing biomass or bioproducts, and methods of screening for such mutants.

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