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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2010
Donald E. Trimbur, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chung-soon Im, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Harrison F. Dillon, San Mateo, CA (US);
Anthony G. Day, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Franklin, La Jolla, CA (US);
Anna Coragliotti, San Francisco, CA (US);
Donald E. Trimbur, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chung-Soon Im, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Harrison F. Dillon, San Mateo, CA (US);
Anthony G. Day, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Franklin, La Jolla, CA (US);
Anna Coragliotti, San Francisco, CA (US);
Solazyme, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides methods of manufacturing oils and oil-based products such as transportation fuels, industrial chemicals, edible oils, lubricants and plastics using sucrose feedstocks from sugar cane, sugar beets, and molasses for bioproduction processes. The disclosed processes utilize oleaginous microbes as a conversion technology to convert chemical energy produced by sugar cane, molasses and sugar beets into energy-containing oils and oil derivatives. Also provided herein are oleaginous microbes containing one or more exogenous sucrose utilization genes.