| Plant Sensory Systems, LLC Patent applications |
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| 20120030842 | METHODS OF PRODUCING GABA - The present invention describes an alternative approach to increase GABA production in prokaryotes or eukaryotes, namely by the insertion of the putrescine catabolic pathway in organisms where the pathway does not exist or has not clearly been identified. The invention describes methods for the use of polynucleotides that encode functional putrescine aminotransferase (PAT) and gamma-aminobutyricaldehyde dehydrogenase (GABAlde DeHase) polypeptides in plants to increase GABA production. The preferred embodiment of the invention is in plants but other organisms may be used. Changes in GABA availability will improve growth and increase tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20110231961 | METABOLIC REGULATORS - The present invention provides metabolic regulators, which are proteins (such as fusion proteins, truncated proteins or full-length proteins) that bind to specific metabolites and which can be used to control the availability of the metabolites in cells, particularly plant cells. Proteins of the invention include one or more metabolic regulator proteins, can be truncated or full length, can further comprise a transmembrane domain or lipoylation site or can further comprise a transit peptide. Metabolic regulators of the invention can be soluble, e.g., cytosolic soluble, can be anchored to a biological membrane or can be organelle targeted or apoplastic targeted. The present invention also provides nucleic acid molecules encoding the metabolic regulators, methods of making the nucleic acid molecules, methods for making transformed organisms, including plants, photosynthetic organisms, microbes, invertebrates, and vertebrates, and methods for controlling availability of metabolites to a host cell. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110203019 | METHODS OF PRODUCING GABA - The present invention describes an alternative approach to increase GABA production in prokaryotes or eukaryotes, namely by the insertion of the putrescine catabolic pathway in organisms where the pathway does not exist or has not clearly been identified. The invention describes methods for the use of polynucleotides that encode functional putrescine aminotransferase (PAT) and gamma-aminobutyricaldehyde dehydrogenase (GABAlde DeHase) polypeptides in plants to increase GABA production. The preferred embodiment of the invention is in plants but other organisms may be used. Changes in GABA availability will improve growth and increase tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20090077693 | METHODS OF PRODUCING GABA - The present invention describes an alternative approach to increase GABA production in prokaryotes or eukaryotes, namely by the insertion of the putrescine catabolic pathway in organisms where the pathway does not exist or has not clearly been identified. The invention describes methods for the use of polynucleotides that encode functional putrescine aminotransferase (PAT) and gamma-aminobutyricaldehyde dehydrogenase (GABAlde DeHase) polypeptides in plants to increase GABA production. The preferred embodiment of the invention is in plants but other organisms may be used. Changes in GABA availability will improve growth and increase tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090061519 | METABOLIC REGULATORS - The present invention provides methods to make soluble or membrane-anchored metabolic regulators for use in prokaryotes or eukaryotes. The present invention provides methods of expressing novel protein constructs that bind to specific metabolites to control their availability in the cell. The invention utilizes bacterial periplasmic binding proteins, or domains from prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins that are functionally similar to the bacterial periplasmic binding proteins, fused together and/or fused to a peptide that encodes a transmembrane domain. Changes in metabolite availability will result in altered metabolism or receptor activity to improve growth, yield, crop quality, or tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress. | 03-05-2009 |
