Patent 7989206 was granted and assigned to E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Identified are mutants of the promoter of the Z. mobilis glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene, which direct improved expression levels of operably linked heterologous nucleic acids. These are high expression promoters useful for expression of chimeric genes in Zymomonas, Zymobacter, and other related bacteria.