NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE ENCODING BETA-C-4-OXYGENASE FROM HAEMATOCOCCUS PLUVIALIS FOR THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF ASTAXANTHIN - Patent 0951534

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EP 0 951 534 A1

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(43)	Date of publication:
	27.10.1999 Bulletin 1999/43

(21)	Application number: 97909944.0

(22)	Date of filing: 03.10.1997

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

C12N 9/ 02^{( . )}

C12N 15/ 82^{( . )}

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/US1997/017819

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 1998/018910 (07.05.1998 Gazette 1998/18)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

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Priority:

28.10.1996 US 19960742605

(71)	Applicant: YISSUM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
	Jerusalem 91 042 (IL)

(72)	Inventors:
	MANN, Varda 96190 Mevasseret Zion (IL) HIRSCHBERG, Joseph 93714 Jerusalem (IL) HARKER, Mark 92461 Jerusalem (IL)

(74)	Representative: McKeown, Yvonne Mary, et al
	c/o MacLachlan & Donaldson, 47 Merrion Square Dublin 2 Dublin 2 (IE)

(54)	NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE ENCODING BETA-C-4-OXYGENASE FROM HAEMATOCOCCUS PLUVIALIS FOR THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF ASTAXANTHIN