US Patent Issued to Amyris on July 15 for "Oligosaccharide production in yeast cells expressing an ABC transporter protein" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,234, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amyris Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Oligosaccharide production in yeast cells expressing an ABC transporter protein" was invented by Jessica Walter (Emeryville, Calif.) and Dominic Pinel (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are genetically modified yeast cells capable of producing one or more human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) and methods of making such cells. The yeast cells are engineered to comprise a heterologous nucleic acid encoding a transporter protein and one or more heterologous nucleic acids that encode enzymes of a HMO biosynthetic pathway. Also provided...