Patent ID: 8293979
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: A61K,C07K,C12N

Abstract:
1. An isolated DNA encoding a herbicide metabolizing protein, wherein said protein is selected from the group consisting of: (a) a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 222; (b) a protein having an ability to convert in the presence of an electron transport system containing an electron donor, a compound of formula (II) to a compound of formula (III), and comprising an amino acid sequence which has at least 90% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 222, and which contains an amino acid sequence encoded by a DNA amplifiable by a polymerase chain reaction with a primer comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 124 and a primer comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 129, and which retains a cysteine at a position corresponding to amino acid number 347 in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 222; and (c) a protein having an ability to convert in the presence of an electron transport system containing an electron donor, a compound of formula (II) to a compound of formula (III), and comprising an amino acid sequence encoded by a DNA amplifiable by a polymerase chain reaction with a primer comprising the nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 124 to 128, a primer comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 129 and as a template a chromosomal DNA of