Patent ID: 6737260
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: C12N

Abstract:
An isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide having PhzO activity selected from the group consisting of:(a) a nucleotide sequence as given in SEQ ID NO:1 from nucleotide 76 to nucleotide 1564 or from nucleotide 89 to nucleotide 1564; (b) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having PhzO activity comprising an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2; (c) a nucleic acid sequence having at least 50% nucleotide sequence identity with SEQ ID NO:1 from nucleotide 89 through nucleotide 1564 and wherein said nucleic acid sequence encodes a polypeptide having PhzO activity; (d) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence which has at least 60% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO:2 and wherein said encoded polypeptide has PhzO activity; (e) a nucleic acid sequence which hybridizes under medium or high stringency conditions with the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 from nucleotide 89 through nucleotide 1564 and wherein said DNA sequence encodes a polypeptide having PhzO activity; and (f) a subsequence of (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) wherein the subsequence encodes a polypeptide fragment which has PhzO activity.