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Product USA. AC. No. 4

PATENT ASSIGNEE'S COUNTRY USA
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PATENT CLAIMS Method for production of gamma-linolenic acid in a yeast culture; comprising
- Growing a yeast culture having plurality of recombinant
yeast cells, wherein said cells or an ancestor of said cells
were transformed with a vector comprising "Mortierella
alpina" DNA encoding delta6 desaturase protein which
converts linoleic acid to gamma-linolenic acid, wherein
said DNA is operably associated with an expression con
trol sequence functional in said yeast cells, under condi
tions whereby said DNA is expressed, whereby gamma-
linolenic acid is produced from linoleic acid in yeast culture
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