CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING YIELD OF FATTY ALCOHOLS IN CYANOBACTERIA

摘要

A construct, wherein the construct comprises a gene operably linked to a promoter having activity in cyanobacteria, which gene is selected from the group consisting of: 1) fatty acyl-CoA synthetase genes; 2) genes of which the nucleotide sequences have at least 80% identity to the sequences of the genes listed in 1), and which encode a protein having fatty acyl-CoA synthetase activity; and 3) genes of which the nucleotide sequences are capable of hybridizing with the sequences of the genes listed in 1) under stringent hybridizing conditions, preferably highly stringent hybridizing conditions, and which encode a protein having fatty acyl-CoA synthetase activity. Vectors comprising such a construct; cyanobacteria and kits comprising such construct or vector; and method for increasing the yield of fatty alcohols in cyanobacteria comprising introducing the above construct and/or vector in cyanobacteria.