The invention is directed to methods involved in the production of flavonoids, anthocyanins and other organic compounds. The invention provides cells engineered for the production of flavonoids, anthocyanins and other organic compounds, where the engineered cells include one or more genetic modifications that increase flavonoid production by increasing metabolic flux to flavonoid precursors and/or reducing carbon losses resulting from the production of byproducts.

Disclosed herein are prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes, including E. coli and S. cerevisiae, genetically altered to biosynthesize tryptamine and tryptamine derivatives. The microbes of the disclosure may be engineered to contain plasmids and stable gene integrations containing sufficient genetic information for conversion of an anthranilate or an indole to a tryptamine. The fermentative production of substituted tryptamines in a whole-cell biocatalyst may be useful for cost effective production of these compounds for therapeutic use.

The disclosure relates to omega-hydroxylase-related fusion polypeptides that result in improved omega-hydroxylated fatty acid derivative production when expressed in recombinant host cells. The disclosure further relates to microorganisms for expressing the omega-hydroxylase-related fusion polypeptides for the production of omega-hydroxylated fatty acid derivatives.

The invention relates to recombinant microorganisms and methods for producing steviol glycosides and steviol glycoside precursors.

The present invention includes systems, methods and compositions for the generation of water-soluble cannabinoids in yeast, and other plant cell suspension cultures as well as novel water-soluble cannabinoid compounds. The present invention also includes compositions of matter that may contain one or more water-soluble cannabinoids.

The present disclosure relates a polypeptide having UGT activity, which polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence which, when aligned with a polypeptide having UGT activity comprising the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2, comprises at least one substitution of an amino acid corresponding to any of amino acids at positions 35, 189, 280, 284, 285, 334 or 373, said positions being defined with reference to SEQ ID NO: 2 and wherein the polypeptide has one or more modified properties as compared with a reference polypeptide having UGT activity. A polypeptide according to the disclosure may be used in a recombinant cell for the production of steviol or a steviol glycoside.

An NADPH-regeneration system based on monomeric isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) and a use thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to a recombinant vector including a polynucleotide encoding an isocitrate dehydrogenase recombinant protein derived from Corynebacterium glutamicum (CgIDH) and an isocitrate dehydrogenase recombinant protein derived from Azotobacter vinelandii (AvIDH), a method for producing the recombinant protein, and an NADPH-regeneration system using the recombinant protein produced by the method. The enzyme in a monomeric form that may be efficiently used in the NADPH-regeneration system in the transformant into which the recombinant vector was introduced, was found, and the NADPH-regeneration system using the enzyme in a monomeric form has a very high utility value as biological parts and biocatalyst materials that provides NADPH to the NADPH-dependent enzyme.

A recombinant micro-organism producing resveratrol by a pathway in which phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) produces trans-cinnamic acid from phenylalanine, cinnamate 4-hydroxylase (C4H) produces 4-coumaric acid from said trans-cinnamic acid, 4-coumarate-CoA ligase (4CL) produces 4-coumaroyl CoA from said 4-coumaric acid, and resveratrol synthase (VST) produces said resveratrol from said 4-coumaroyl CoA, or in which L-phenylalanine- or tyrosine-ammonia lyase (PAL/TAL) produces 4-coumaric acid, 4-coumarate-CoA ligase (4CL) produces 4-coumaroyl CoA from said 4-coumaric acid, and resveratrol synthase (VST) produces said resveratrol from said 4-coumaroyl CoA. The micro-organism may be a yeast, fungus or bacterium including Saccharomyces cerevisiae, E. coli, Lactococcus lactis, Aspergillus niger, or Aspergillus oryzae.

The present invention elates to a dicarboxylic acid synthesis-related enzyme, a gene coding for same, and a method for producing dicarboxylic acid using same. The gene or enzyme encoded by the gene of the present invention can be used in bio-enzymatic production, instead of the existing chemical production, of dicarboxylic acid, and is thus expected to have high industrial utility.

The present invention relates to the development of genetically engineered yeasts that can produce hydrocarbons in a controllable and economic fashion. More specifically the invention relates to the production of liquid alkanes and alkenes that can be used for liquid transportation fuels, specialty chemicals, or feed stock for further chemical conversion.