Patent ID: 9040264
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: C07K,C12P,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A recombinant cyanobacterium comprising an exogenous nucleic acid molecule encoding a transcription factor domain protein, wherein the transcription factor domain protein has transcription factor activity and comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 85% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4, SEQ ID NO:6, SEQ ID NO:10, or SEQ ID NO:12, and wherein the recombinant cyanobacterium produces a greater amount of at least one free fatty acid or at least one fatty acid derivative than does a control cyanobacterium that does not comprise the exogenous nucleic acid molecule encoding the transcription factor domain protein, and further wherein the exogenous nucleic acid molecule is operably linked to a promoter that is heterologous relative to the cyanobacterium and/or the exogenous nucleic acid molecule.