THRAUSTOCHYTRIDS, FATTY ACID COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME

• Main Authors: ROSS ZIRKLE, JON MILTON HANSEN, TRACEY LYNN STAHL, KIRK E APT, PFEIFER JOSEPH W III, PAUL WARREN BEHRENS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 27.07.2015
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; FODDER; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; VINEGAR; WINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide useful products such as fatty acids utilizing microorganisms of the thraustochytrid species; and usages thereof.SOLUTION: The present invention provides newly isolated strains of the thraustochytrid species, and mutants obtained from the strains by irradiation treatm...