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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:
Dec. 31, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo-To, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07H / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
536 232 ; 536 231 ; 536 237 ; 536 2374 ; 536 236 ; 435175 ; 4351723 ; 4353201 ; 4352523 ; 435189 ; 435233 ;
Abstract
Disclosed are DNA sequences which are useful for the synthesis of carotenoids such as lycopene, .beta.-carotene, zeaxanthin or zeaxanthin-diglucoside, that is, DNA sequences encoding carotenoid biosynthesis enzymes. These DNA sequences are the sequences 1- 6, respectively, shown in the specification. Also disclosed is a process for producing a carotenoid compound which is selected from the group consisting of prephytoene pyrophosphate, phytoene, lycopene, .beta.-carotene, zeaxanthin and zeaxanthin-diglucoside, which comprises transforming a host with at least one of the DNA sequences 1- 6 described above and culturing the transformant.