US Patent Issued to AMYRIS on July 29 for "Compositions and methods for production of myrcene" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,696, issued on July 29, was assigned to AMYRIS INC. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for production of myrcene" was invented by Andrew Main (Emeryville, Calif.), Grzegorz Wojciechowski (Emeryville, Calif.), Yue Yang (Emeryville, Calif.) and Lishan Zhao (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for producing myrcene by culturing genetically modified microbial host cells that express a myrcene synthase and optionally a geranyl pyroplosphate synthase. Also provided herein are isolated nucleic acid molecules that encode myrcene synthase variants derived from the Ocimum ...