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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
May. 15, 2007
James Weifu Lee, Knoxville, TN (US);
James Weifu Lee, Knoxville, TN (US);
Other;
Abstract
A designer proton-channel transgenic alga for photobiological hydrogen production that is specifically designed for production of molecular hydrogen (H) through photosynthetic water splitting. The designer transgenic alga includes proton-conductive channels that are expressed to produce such uncoupler proteins in an amount sufficient to increase the algal Hproductivity. In one embodiment the designer proton-channel transgene is a nucleic acid construct () including a PCR forward primer (), an externally inducible promoter (), a transit targeting sequence (), a designer proton-channel encoding sequence (), a transcription and translation terminator (), and a PCR reverse primer (). In various embodiments, the designer proton-channel transgenic algae are used with a gas-separation system () and a gas-products-separation and utilization system () for photobiological Hproduction.