Microbial production of indigo

C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 12 – N

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195/86, 195/1.2,

C12N 15/00 (2006.01) C09B 7/02 (2006.01) C12N 15/52 (2006.01) C12P 17/16 (2006.01)

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CA 1217155

- 20 - ABSTRACT "MICROBIAL PRODUCTION OF INDIGO" Microbial synthesis of indigo dyestuff in indole-free media is disclosed. Indigo production is preferably accomplished by genetic transformation of selected host cells having the capacity to produce and accumulate indole (either as a result of endogenous genomic capacity or genetic transformation) to incor- porate the capacity for synthesis of an aromatic dioxy- genase enzyme. Growth of transformed cells under suitable conditions facilitates aromatic dioxygenase enzyme catalyzed oxidative transformation of cellular indole, with consequent formation of indigo from the oxidized reaction products. In a highly preferred embodiment, E.coli cells having endogenous indole production capacity are transformed with a DNA expres- sion vector comprising the structural gene for naph- thalene dioxygenase, resulting in the microbial synthesis of isolatable quantities of indigo.

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