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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2008
Marguerite A. Cervin, Redwood City, CA (US);
Philippe Soucaille, Deyme, FR;
Fernando Valle, Burlingame, CA (US);
Marguerite A. Cervin, Redwood City, CA (US);
Philippe Soucaille, Deyme, FR;
Fernando Valle, Burlingame, CA (US);
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington, DE (US);
Genencor International Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a microorganism useful for biologically producing 1,3-propanediol from a fermentable carbon source at higher yield than was previously known. The complexity of the cofactor requirements necessitates the use of a whole cell catalyst for an industrial process that utilizes this reaction sequence to produce 1,3-propanediol. The invention provides a microorganism with disruptions in specified genes and alterations in the expression levels of specified genes that is useful in a higher yielding process to produce 1,3-propanediol.