Granted Patent
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US 12,509,695 · App. 18/609,276 · Granted Dec 30, 2025
Materials and methods for protein production
Assignee:
Impossible Foods Inc.
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Abstract
This document relates to materials and methods for the production of protein. In one aspect, this document provides a first exogenous nucleic acid construct including a nucleotide sequence encoding an aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS) protein operably linked to a first promoter element, wherein the ALAS includes at least a first heme responsive motif (HRM), and wherein the ALAS includes a mutation in the first HRM, and a second exogenous nucleic acid construct comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a heme-binding protein, wherein the second exogenous nucleic acid construct including a nucleotide sequence encoding the heme-binding protein is operably linked to the first promoter element or is operably linked to a second promoter element.
Claims (15)
1 . A method of producing a heme-binding protein in a cell, the method comprising:
expressing in the cell a first exogenous nucleic acid construct comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding an aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS) protein operably linked to a first promoter element, wherein the ALAS protein comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 29, wherein the ALAS protein comprises at least a first heme responsive motif (HRM), wherein the first HRM comprises a mutated C-P motif, and wherein the mutated C-P motif in the first HRM has a mutation from cysteine to a different amino acid; and
expressing in the cell a second exogenous nucleic acid construct comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a heme-binding protein,
wherein the second exogenous nucleic acid construct comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the heme-binding protein is operably linked to the first promoter element or is operably linked to a second promoter element.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the cell is a fungal cell.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the ALAS protein comprises a second HRM, wherein the second HRM comprises a mutated C-P motif, and wherein the mutated C-P motif in the second HRM has a mutation from cysteine to a different amino acid.
4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the method produces the heme-binding protein in a titer that is at least 5% greater than a corresponding method lacking the mutations in the first HRM and second HRM.
5 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the method produces the heme-binding protein in a titer that is at least 10% greater than a corresponding method lacking the mutations in the first HRM and second HRM.
6 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the different amino acid is the same for the mutation in the first HRM and the mutation in the second HRM.
7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the different amino acid is serine, alanine, phenylalanine, or histidine.
8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the ALAS protein comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence in SEQ ID NO: 29.
9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the heme-binding protein is selected from the group consisting of a globin, a cytochrome, a cytochrome c oxidase, a ligninase, a catalase, and a peroxidase.
10 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the different amino acid in the mutation in the first HRM is serine, alanine, phenylalanine, or histidine, and wherein the different amino acid in the mutation in the second HRM is serine, alanine, phenylalanine, or histidine.
11 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the different amino acid is serine, alanine, phenylalanine, or histidine.
12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the cell is a yeast cell.
Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST
Recorded Mar 28, 2024
From: ROY CHAUDHURI, BISWAJOY; SHANKAR, SMITA
To: IMPOSSIBLE FOODS INC.
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Continuity (3)
Provisional Application
62838770
· Apr 25, 2019
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