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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2014
Applicant:
Kiverdi, Inc., Berkeley, CA (US);
Inventors:
John S. Reed, Emeryville, CA (US);
Itzhak Kurek, San Francisco, CA (US);
Henrik Fyrst, Oakland, CA (US);
Lisa Dyson, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Kiverdi, Inc., Hayward, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/6409 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods are provided for producing omega-7 fatty acids from feedstock that includes syngas usingmicroorganisms. The syngas feedstock includes at least one of CO or a mixture of COand H, and the methods include introducing syngas into a bioreactor, where chemoautotrophicmicroorganisms convert the gaseous feedstock into omega-7 fatty acids, such as palmitoleic acid and vaccenic acid.