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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2013
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., Ames, IA (US);
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC., Ames, IA (US);
Abstract
A method of increasing production of fatty acids comprising introducing into a host and expressing therein an acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) thioesterase (TE) fromor a mutant thereof; a method of making a mutantacyl-ACP TE; a method of making a chimericacyl-ACP TE; a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a mutant acyl-ACP TE or a chimericacyl-ACP TE; a host comprising the nucleic acid molecule; a mutant acyl-ACP TE or chimericacyl-ACP TE; a method of altering the specificity of a plant acyl-ACP TE for at least one of its substrates comprising introducing into the plant acyl-ACP TE a substrate specificity-altering mutation; and a method of altering the level of activity of a plant acyl-ACP TE.