Xylose reductase mutants and uses thereof

Nikhil Unni Nair; Huimin Zhao

Xylose reductase mutants and uses thereof

Nikhil Unni Nair (Inventor), Huimin Zhao (Inventor)

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Abstract

Engineered mutant xylose reductases demonstrate higher preference to xylose than arabinose. Amino acid mutations were engineered in to native xylose reductase from Neurospora crassa. Mutant xylose reductases are useful in the production of xylitol and ethanol.

Original language	English (US)
U.S. patent number	8822661
State	Published - Sep 2 2014

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