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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2008
Applicants:
Jeremy Minshull, Los Altos, CA (US);
Willem P. C. Stemmer, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jeremy Minshull, Los Altos, CA (US);
Willem P. C. Stemmer, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Maxygen, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/00 (2006.01); C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C07H 21/02 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is generally directed to the evolution of new metabolic pathways and the enhancement of bioprocessing through a process herein termed recursive sequence recombination. Recursive sequence recombination entails performing iterative cycles of recombination and screening or selection to 'evolve' individual genes, whole plasmids or viruses, multigene clusters, or even whole genomes. Such techniques do not require the extensive analysis and computation required by conventional methods for metabolic engineering.