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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2016
Intrexon Corporation, Blacksburg, VA (US);
William J. Coleman, Redwood City, CA (US);
Genevieve M. Vidanes, San Francisco, CA (US);
Guillaume Cottarel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sheela Muley, Fremont, CA (US);
Roy Kamimura, Daly City, CA (US);
Akbar F. Javan, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jianping Sun, Belmont, CA (US);
Eli S. Groban, San Francisco, CA (US);
INTREXON CORPORATION, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Abstract
Multi-carbon compounds such as ethanol, n-butanol, sec-butanol, isobutanol, tert-butanol, fatty (or aliphatic long chain) alcohols, fatty acid methyl esters, 2,3-butanediol and the like, are important industrial commodity chemicals with a variety of applications. The present invention provides metabolically engineered host microorganisms which metabolize methane (CH) as their sole carbon source to produce multi-carbon compounds for use in fuels (e.g., bio-fuel, bio-diesel) and bio-based chemicals. Furthermore, use of the metabolically engineered host microorganisms of the invention (which utilize methane as the sole carbon source) mitigate current industry practices and methods of producing multi-carbon compounds from petroleum or petroleum-derived feedstocks, and ameliorate much of the ongoing depletion of arable food source 'farmland' currently being diverted to grow bio-fuel feedstocks, and as such, improve the environmental footprint of future bio-fuel, bio-diesel and bio-based chemical compositions.