MUTANT MICROORGANISM HAVING A HYDROCARBON-GENERATING ABILITY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROCARBON USING SAME

摘要

The present invention relates to a mutant microorganism having the ability to generate hydrocarbon containing alkanes and to a method for producing hydrocarbons containing alkanes using the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a mutant microorganism in which genes that code for enzymes for converting fatty acyl-acps to free fatty acids, genes that code for enzymes for converting free fatty acids to fatty acyl-CoA, genes that code for enzymes for converting fatty acyl-CoA to fatty aldehydes, and genes that code for enzymes for converting fatty aldehydes to alkanes are introduced to the microorganisms improved to be appropriate for the production of hydrocarbons containing alkanes. The present invention also relates to a method for producing hydrocarbons containing alkanes. The mutant microorganism according to the present invention has a high possibility of being utilized in strain improvement resulting from an additional metabolic control, and therefore, can be valuably used in the industrial production of hydrocarbons containing alkanes.