Patent ID: 9670512
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: C10L,C12N,C12P,C12Y,Y02E,Y02P,Y02T

Claim:
1. A method of producing a fatty aldehyde or a fatty alcohol in an engineered microorganism, comprising: (a) expressing a gene encoding a polypeptide that catalyzes the conversion of an acyl-ACP to a fatty aldehyde in said engineered microorganism; and (b) culturing said engineered microorganism in a culture media containing a carbohydrate carbon source under conditions effective to produce a fatty aldehyde or a fatty alcohol in the culture media, wherein said polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 70, wherein the fatty aldehyde or fatty alcohol comprises a C