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20100173372 | Recombinant Halohydrin Dehalogenase Polypeptides - The present disclosure provides engineered halohydrin dehalogenase (HHDH) polypeptides having improved enzyme properties as compared to the wild-type HHDH enzyme HheC and other reference engineered HHDH polypeptides. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered HHDH enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered HHDH enzymes, and methods of using the engineered HHDH enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds including chiral epoxides and chiral alcohols. | 07-08-2010 |
20100209997 | CARBONIC ANHYDRASE POLYPEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to recombinant carbonic anhydrase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally-occurring wild type carbonic anhydrase and uses thereof for the sequestration of carbon dioxide as well as for the release of carbon dioxide from a composition comprising bicarbonate. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the recombinant carbonic anhydrase enzymes and host cells capable of expressing the recombinant carbonic anhydrase enzymes. | 08-19-2010 |
20100298612 | ENGINEERED BIOSYNTHESIS OF FATTY ALCOHOLS - The present disclosure provides a process for the production of long chain fatty alcohols by recombinant host cells expressing one or more heterologous carboxylic acid reductase enzymes useful for the conversion of fatty acids, and derivatives thereof, to long chain fatty alcohols. | 11-25-2010 |
20100317059 | BETA-GLUCOSIDASE VARIANT ENZYMES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention provides variants of the | 12-16-2010 |
20110000125 | PRODUCTION OF FATTY ALCOHOLS WITH FATTY ALCOHOL FORMING ACYL-COA REDUCTASES (FAR) - The disclosure relates to methods of producing fatty alcohols from recombinant host cells comprising genes encoding heterologous fatty acyl-CoA reductase (FAR) enzymes. The disclosure further relates to FAR enzymes and functional fragments thereof derived from marine bacterium and particularly marine gamma proteobacterium such as | 01-06-2011 |
20110124058 | RECOMBINANT THERMOASCUS AURANTIACUS BETA-GLUCOSIDASE VARIANTS FOR PRODUCTION OF FERMENTABLE SUGARS FROM CELLULOSIC BIOMASS - The present invention provides compositions and methods for the expression of recombinant β-glucosidase variants, as well as their use in the production of fermentable sugars from cellulosic biomass. | 05-26-2011 |
20120009640 | FATTY ALCOHOL FORMING ACYL REDUCTASES (FARS) AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - The present disclosure provides methods useful for producing fatty alcohol compositions from recombinant host cells. The disclosure further provides variant fatty acyl-CoA reductase (FAR) enzymes, polynucleotides encoding the variant FAR enzymes, and vectors and host cells comprising the same. | 01-12-2012 |
20120015408 | BETA-GLUCOSIDASE VARIANT ENZYMES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention provides variants of the | 01-19-2012 |
20120021469 | AMIDASES AND METHODS OF THEIR USE - The disclosure relates to engineered amidase polypeptides and processes of using the polypeptides for chiral resolution of amino acid amide compounds. The disclosure further relates to the polynucleotides that encode the engineered amidase polypeptides and related vectors, host cells, and methods for making the engineered amidase polypeptides. | 01-26-2012 |
20120045793 | EXPRESSION CONSTRUCTS COMPRISING FUNGAL PROMOTERS - The present invention provides promoters derived from a filamentous fungus. These promoters have application in the fields of molecular biology, microbiology, fungal genetics and production of biofuels and other products. | 02-23-2012 |
20120077216 | Beta-Glucosidase Variants - The invention relates to recombinantly produced β-Glucosidase Variants with enhanced thermoactivity compared to naturally occurring proteins. The invention also provides methods for producing a variant β-glucosidase polypeptide with improved thermoactivity by identifying performance sensitive positions in a target β-glucosidase polypeptide and substituting the residue at that position with a thermoactivity enhancing residue. | 03-29-2012 |
20120083019 | Use of Glycoside Hydrolase 61 Family Proteins in Processing of Cellulose - The invention provides recombinant GH61 proteins obtained from | 04-05-2012 |
20120165562 | GENE DISRUPTANTS PRODUCING FATTY ACYL-COA DERIVATIVES - This invention provides microbial organisms, particularly yeasts such as | 06-28-2012 |
20120190076 | RECOMBINANT C1 BETA-GLUCOSIDASE FOR PRODUCTION OF SUGARS FROM CELLULOSIC BIOMASS - The invention relates to expression of a recombinant C1 β-glucosidase. The invention also provides methods for producing a fermentable sugar from cellobiose by contacting celiobiose with a recombinant host cell comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding C1 β-glucosidase, operably linked to heterologous promoter, under conditions in which β-glucosidase is expressed and secreted by the cell and the cellobiose is enzymatically converted by said β-glucosidase to glucose. Methods of the invention may be used for conversion of a biomass substrate to a fermentable sugar, and ultimately to ethanol or other biofuel. | 07-26-2012 |
20120220002 | Recombinant Halohydrin Dehalogenase Polypeptides - The present disclosure provides engineered halohydrin dehalogenase (HHDH) polypeptides having improved enzyme properties as compared to the wild-type HHDH enzyme HheC and other reference engineered HHDH polypeptides. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered HHDH enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered HHDH enzymes, and methods of using the engineered HHDH enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds including chiral epoxides and chiral alcohols. | 08-30-2012 |
20130040352 | PRODUCTION OF FATTY ALCOHOLS WITH FATTY ALCOHOL FORMING ACYL-COA REDUCTASES (FAR) - The disclosure relates to methods of producing fatty alcohols from recombinant host cells comprising genes encoding heterologous fatty acyl-CoA reductase (FAR) enzymes. The disclosure further relates to FAR enzymes and functional fragments thereof derived from marine bacterium and particularly marine gamma proteobacterium such as | 02-14-2013 |
20130095530 | BETA-GLUCOSIDASE VARIANT ENZYMES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES - The invention provides variants of the | 04-18-2013 |
20130288310 | RECOMBINANT LIGNOCELLULOSE DEGRADATION ENZYMES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SOLUBLE SUGARS FROM CELLULOSIC BIOMASS - The invention relates to C1 lignocellulose degradation enzyme nucleic acid and protein sequences and expression of recombinant C1 lignocellulose degradation enzymes. The invention provides methods for degrading a cellulosic biomass by contacting the biomass with a recombinant C1 lignocellulose degradation enzyme of the invention. | 10-31-2013 |
20140004586 | BETA-GLUCOSIDASE VARIANT ENZYMES AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES | 01-02-2014 |
20140093929 | FATTY ALCOHOL FORMING ACYL REDUCTASES (FARS) AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - The present disclosure provides methods useful for producing fatty alcohol compositions from recombinant host cells. The disclosure further provides variant fatty acyl-CoA reductase (FAR) enzymes, polynucleotides encoding the variant FAR enzymes, and vectors and host cells comprising the same. | 04-03-2014 |
20140099686 | Production of Fatty Alcohols with Fatty Alcohol Forming Acyl-CoA Reductases (FAR) - The disclosure relates to methods of producing fatty alcohols from recombinant host cells comprising genes encoding heterologous fatty acyl-CoA reductase (FAR) enzymes. The disclosure further relates to FAR enzymes and functional fragments thereof derived from marine bacterium and particularly marine gamma proteobacterium such as | 04-10-2014 |
20140113352 | RECOMBINANT THERMOASCUS AURANTIACUS BETA-GLUCOSIDASE VARIANTS FOR PRODUCTION OF FERMENTABLE SUGARS FROM CELLULOSIC BIOMASS - The present invention provides compositions and methods for the expression of recombinant β-glucosidase variants, as well as their use in the production of fermentable sugars from cellulosic biomass. | 04-24-2014 |
20140186896 | USE OF GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASE 61 FAMILY PROTEINS IN PROCESSING OF CELLULOSE - The invention provides recombinant GH61 proteins obtained from | 07-03-2014 |
20140336423 | PRODUCTION OF SATURATED FATTY ALCOHOLS FROM ENGINEERED MICROORGANISMS - Recombinant bacterial microorganisms are provided which comprise heterologous fatty acyl reductases (“FAR”) polypeptides wherein said microorganisms have been engineered to produce increased amounts of saturated fatty alcohols and methods of making saturated fatty alcohols using the recombinant bacterial microorganisms. | 11-13-2014 |
20150017698 | RECOMBINANT HOST CELLS AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING 1,3-BUTADIENE THROUGH A 5-HYDROXYPENT-3-ENOATE INTERMEDIATE - The present disclosure relates to recombinant host cells comprising one or more recombinant polynucleotides encoding enzymes in select pathways that provide the ability to use the cells to produce 1,3-butadiene. The present disclosure also provides methods of manufacturing the recombinant host cells, and methods for the use of the cells to produce 1,3-butadiene. The methods utilize recombinant host cells that comprise an engineered pathway of enzymes that provides for the conversion of naturally occurring intermediate crotonyl-CoA (or -ACP) to 1,3-butadiene through enzyme catalyzed steps involving the reduction of glutaconyl-CoA (or -ACP) to form the intermediate 5-hydroxypent-3-enoate. The disclosure provides alternative engineered pathway involving either decarboxylation of 5-hydroxypent-3-enoate directly to 1,3-butadiene, or phosphorylation of 5-hydroxypent-3-enoate followed by a phosphate elimination step catalyzed by a decarboxylase to produce 1,3-butadiene. | 01-15-2015 |