Recombinant microorganism able to produce lower alkyl esters of long-chain fatty acids, useful as fuel, emollient or pharmaceuticals, includes three specified genes

摘要

Microorganism (A) that includes nucleic acid sequences (B) encoding a prokaryotic acyltransferase (I); a pyruvate decarboxylase (II) and an alcohol dehydrogenase (III). Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) method for microbial preparation of esters (IV) of long-chain fatty acids (V) with lower alcohols (VI); (2) a vector that carries the three specified (B); and (3) a mixture of two or three vectors that together carry the specified (B).