Abstract: The properties of dough or bread can be improved by the addition of a carbohydrate oxidase which can oxidize the reducing end of an oligosaccharide more efficiently than the corresponding monosaccharide, e.g., preferentially oxidizing maltodextrins or cellodextrins over glucose. A novel carbohydrate oxidase having the capability to oxidize maltodextrins and cellodextrins more efficiently than glucose may be obtained from a strain of Microdochium, particularly M. nivale. The amino acid sequence of the novel carbohydrate oxidase has very low homology (<20% identity) with known amino acid sequences.

Abstract: The present invention relates to subtilase variants having a reduced tendency towards inhibition by substances present in eggs, such as trypsin inhibitor type IV-0. In particular, the variants comprise at least one additional amino acid residue between positions 42-43, 51-56, 155-161, 187-190, 216-217, 217-218 or 218-219 (in BASBPN numbering). These subtilase variants are useful exhibiting excellent or improved wash performance on egg stains when used in e.g. cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dishwash composition, including automatic dishwash compositions. Also, isolated DNA sequences encoding the variants, expression vectors, host cells, and methods for producing and using the variants of the invention. Further, cleaning and detergent compositions comprising the variants are disclosed.

Abstract: Addition of an oxidase and a protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) to a dough has a syn-ergistic effect on the loaf volume of a baked product made from the dough.

Abstract: The invention relates to a variant of a parent Termamyl-like ?-amylase, comprising mutations in two, three, four, five or six regions/positions. The variants have increased stability at high temperatures (relative to the parent). The invention also relates to a DNA construct comprising a DNA sequence encoding an ?-amylase variant of the invention, a recombinant expression vector which carries a DNA construct of the invention, a cell which is transformed with a DNA construct of the invention, the use of an ?-amylase variant of the invention for washing and/or dishwashing, textile desizing, starch liquefaction, a detergent additive comprising an ?-amylase variant of the invention, a manual or automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprising an ?-amylase variant of the invention, a method for generating a variant of a parent Termamyl-like ?-amylase, which variant exhibits increased.

Abstract: The inventors have modified the amino acid sequence of a maltogenic alpha-amylase to obtain variants with improved properties, based on the three-dimensional structure of the maltogenic alpha-amylase Novamyl. The variants have altered physicochemical properties., e.g. an altered pH optimum, improved thermostability, increased specific activity, an altered cleavage pattern or an increased ability to reduce retrogradation of starch or staling of bread.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pullulanase variants, wherein the variants have improved properties, for example, altered pH optimum, improved thermostability, altered substrate specificity, increased specific activity or altered cleavage pattern. The present invention also relates to methods of making pullulanase variants having at least one altered property based on the three-dimensional structure of a parent pullulanase.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cutinase variants having improved thermostability. The variants have one or more amino acid substitutions within the vicinity of the N-terminal amino acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of dyeing a material which involve contacting the material with a dyeing system which comprises: (a) a mixture of (i) an aromatic diamine and (ii) one or more of a naphthol and an aminonaphthalene and (b) an oxidation system comprising (i) a hydrogen peroxide source and an enzyme exhibiting peroxidase activity or (ii) an enzyme exibiting oxidase activity on one or more of the compounds of mixture (a). The material may be a fabric, yarn, fiber, garment or film made of fur, hide, leather, silk or wool, or made of cationic polysaccharide, cotton, diacetate, flax, linen, lyocel, polyacrylic, synthetic polyamide, polyester, ramie, rayon, triacetate, or viscose.

Abstract: A method for making polynucleotide libraries that comprise new recombined polynucleotides by using mismatch repair enzymes or proteins to shuffle at least two variants of the same polynucleotide or at least two homologous polynucleotides through a Recombinatorial Chain Reaction, RCR.

Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase of increased product specificity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for increasing the copy number of a chromosomally integrated expression cassette in a microbial strain without leaving antibiotic resistance markers behind in the strain, the necessary genetic constructs, and the strains resulting from the method of the invention.

Abstract: The inventors have isolated lysophospholipases from Aspergillus (A. niger and A. oryzae) having molecular masses of about 68 kDa and amino acid sequences of 600-604 amino acid residues. The novel lysophospholipases have only a limited homology to known amino acid sequences. The inventors also isolated genes encoding the novel enzymes and cloned them into E. coli strains.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of generating a gene library from an environmental pool of organisms, which gene library is enriched in DNA encoding a polypeptide with an activity of interest. Also, the invention provides a method of selecting a DNA sequence of interest from an environmental pool of organisms. Further, the invention relates to a gene library prepared from an enriched environmental pool of organisms enriched in DNA encoding a polypeptide with an activity of interest.

Abstract: The invention relates to a variant of a parent Termamyl-like &agr;-amylase, which exhibits an alteration in at least one of the following properties relative to said parent &agr;-amylase: i) improved pH stability at a pH from 8 to 10.5; and/or ii) improved Ca2+ stability at pH 8 to 10.5, and/or iii) increased specific activity at temperatures from 10 to 60° C.

Abstract: The present invention deals with a process for oxidation of a hydroxy group of C1 and/or C2 and/or C3 and/or C4 and/or C5 and/or C6 of a sugar monomer of an oligo- or a polysaccharide comprising contacting, in an aqueous medium, the oligo- or the polysaccharide with a phenol oxidizing enzyme and an enhancing agent, whereby an oligo- or a polysaccharide with altered characteristics compared to the native oligo- or polysaccharide is created.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to phospholipase from Fusarium solani (MUCL38667) and analogues thereof, nucleic acid constructs, recombinant expression vectors, and recombinant host comprising the nucleic acid sequences encoding the phospholipase from Fusarium solani (MUCL38667) and analogues thereof, methods of making same, and method of using the phosopholipases of the present invention in baking methods, baking compositions and detergent compositions.

Abstract: A method for in vitro selection, from a library of catalyst molecules, of a catalyst molecule of interest having a relatively more efficient specific catalytic activity of interest, as compared to the rest of the catalyst molecules within said library, and wherein said in vitro selection method is characterised by that it allows multiple catalytic activity turn-overs (i.e. substrate to product catalytic activity turn-overs), by the catalyst molecule of interest, before it is finally collected.

Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated thermostable glucoamylase derived from Talaromyces emersonii suitable for starch conversion processes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having glucanotransferase activity and isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid sequences as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a particle comprising an active dispersed in a visco-elastic liquid matrix having a &eegr;′ and a &eegr;″ between 103 to 1014 Pa measured in a cone-and-plate rheometer at 25° C. and a sinusoidal frequencies &ohgr; of 1 Hz.