Abstract
Researchers at the University of Kentucky have been awarded the US Patent 7,153,680 covering recombinant hydroperoxide lyase from watermelon. A hydroperoxide lyase cleaves a carbon-to-carbon bond in the hydroperoxides of polyunsaturated fatty acids to generate hydroperoxide and omega-oxo-acids. The researchers obtained a nucleic acid sequence encoding the gene for hydroperoxide lyase from watermelon leaf tissue. They inserted the sequence into a vector that they used to transform an Escherichia coli bacterium strain so that it produced the enzyme.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 7-8 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Volume | 29 |
No | 2 |
Specialist publication | Industrial Bioprocessing |
State | Published - Feb 2007 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biotechnology
- Biochemistry
- General Chemical Engineering
- Organic Chemistry