US Patent Issued to AMYRIS on Jan. 20 for "ABC transporters for the high efficiency production of rebaudiosides" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,087, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AMYRIS INC. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"ABC transporters for the high efficiency production of rebaudiosides" was invented by Gale A. Wichmann (Emeryville, Calif.), Sean Lund (Emeryville, Calif.), Joshua Lerman (Emeryville, Calif.), Hanxiao Jiang (Emeryville, Calif.) and Yi Xiong (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are genetically modified host cells, compositions, and methods for improved production of steviol glycosides. In some embodiments, the host cell is genetically modified to comprise a heterologous nucleic acid expression cassette that expresses an ABC-transpo...