Synthetic chloroplast transit peptides

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9506077-B2
Application number	US-201313757639-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 1, 2013
Priority date	Feb 1, 2012
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.

First claim

What may be claimed is:

1. An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising:
a nucleotide sequence that encodes the synthetic chloroplast transit peptide (CTP) of SEQ ID NO:11; and
a heterologous nucleotide sequence encoding a peptide of interest operably linked to the synthetic CTP-encoding nucleotide sequence,
wherein the nucleic acid molecule encodes a chimeric polypeptide comprising the peptide of interest and the synthetic CTP.

2. The isolated nucleic ac…

Assignees

• Dow Agrosciences Llc

Inventors

• Lira Justin M
• Cicchillo Robert
• Yerkes Carla N
• Robinson Andrew E

Classifications

• A01H5/10

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• C12N15/8275

  Chemistry & Metallurgy · mapped topic

• C12N15/8245

  Chemistry & Metallurgy · mapped topic

• A01N57/20

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• C12N9/1085

  Chemistry & Metallurgy · mapped topic