Patent ID: 8252973
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: C12N

Abstract:
1. A method of increasing the lipid content of a cell and extracting lipid from the cell, the method comprising: expressing a recombinant chalcone isomerase like fatty acid binding protein gene in the cell, wherein said chalcone isomerase like fatty acid binding protein comprises a sequence at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO:4 and has an arginine (Arg) residue in a position corresponding to Arg114 and a tyrosine (Tyr) residue in a position corresponding to Tyr126 of SEQ ID NO:4, and wherein expression of the recombinant gene increases the lipid content of the cell relative to the lipid content in a corresponding cell not expressing recombinant chalcone isomerase like fatty acid binding protein; and extracting lipid from the cell.