Patent ID: 7056718

Claim:
An isolated polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having oxaloacetate hydrolase activity, selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence which has at least 95% identity with SEQ ID NO: 2; (b) a polynucleotide having at least 95% homology with SEQ ID NO: 1; (c) a polynucleotide which hybridizes under high stringency conditions with (i) SEQ ID NO: 1, (ii) the cDNA sequence encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2, or (iii) a complementary strand of (i) or (ii); and (d) a subsequence of (a), (b), or (c), wherein the subsequence encodes a polypeptide fragment which has oxaloacetate hydrolase activity.