Enzyme Component Of Specific Activity Or Source (e.g., Protease, Of Bacterial Origin, Etc.) Patents (Class 510/320)
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Publication number: 20110277248Abstract: The present application relates to care polymers and fabric and home care compositions comprising such care polymers, as well as processes for making and using such care polymers and such compositions. The performance of the care polymers that Applicants teach, can be further increased by following the emulsification teaching of the present specification and/or combining such care polymers with silicone materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Inventors: Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Julie Ann Menkhaus, Steven Daryl Smith, Dieter Boeckh, Rainer Dobrawa, Frank Hulskotter, Valentin Cepus
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Publication number: 20110281324Abstract: Described are detergent compositions comprising at least one lipase enzyme selected from SriII, ScoIIA, ScoIIB, CefII, and variants, thereof. The compositions are useful for removing oily stains from fabric.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2009Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: Danisco US Inc.Inventors: Christian D. Adams, Kai Bao, Katherine D. Collier, Edwin Lee, Andrei Miasnikov, Zhen Qian, Brian F. Schmidt, Danfeng Song
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Publication number: 20110257064Abstract: A free-flowing solid laundry detergent composition including: (a) detersive surfactant; (b) essentially free from zeolite builder; (c) essentially free from phosphate builder; and (d) optionally, essentially free from silicate salt; wherein the composition has a reserve alkalinity to pH 7.5 of less than 15, and wherein upon dilution in de-ionised water to form a wash liquor at 10° C. temperature and at 1 g/L concentration has a pH profile such that: (i) 3 minutes after contact with water, the pH of the wash liquor is greater than 10; (ii) 10 mins after contact with water, the pH of the wash liquor is less than 9.5; (iii) 20 mins after contact with water, the pH of the wash liquor is less than 9.0; and (iv) optionally, wherein, the equilibrium pH of the wash liquor is in the range of from above 7.0 to 8.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Inventors: Alan Thomas Brooker, Neil Joseph Lant, Nigel Patrick Somerville Roberts, Colin Ure, Carly Pickering
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Publication number: 20110237485Abstract: The subject invention relates to novel compositions of neutral and/or alkaline cellulase and methods for obtaining neutral and/or alkaline cellulase compositions from Chrysosporium cultures, in particular Chrysosporium lucknowense. This invention also provides mutants and methods of generating mutants of Chrysosporium capable of producing neutral and/or alkaline cellulase. This invention also relates to the genes encoding the enzymes comprising the neutral and/or alkaline cellulase composition. In addition, this invention provides methods of culturing Chrysosporium to produce neutral and/or alkaline cellulases. The neutral and/or alkaline cellulase compositions of the subject invention can be used in a variety of processes including stone washing of clothing, detergent processes, deinking, color brightening, depilling and biobleaching of paper and pulp and treatment of waste streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Mark Aaron Emalfarb, Irina Vladimirovna Solovjeva, Arie Ben-Bassat, Richard P. Burlingame, Vladimir Mikhaylovich Chernoglazov, Oleg Nicolaevich Ocounev, Philip T. Olson, Arkady Panteleimonovich Sinitsyn
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Publication number: 20110229956Abstract: Described herein are variants of H. jecorina CBH I, a Cel7 enzyme. The present invention provides novel cellobiohydrolases that have improved thermostability and reversibility.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicants: Danisco US Inc., Genencor International, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Day, Frits Goedegebuur, Peter Gualfetti, Colin Mitchinson, Paulien Neefe, Mats Sandgren, Andrew Shaw, Jerry Stahlberg
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Publication number: 20110230384Abstract: Detergents and cleaning agents containing a protease having an amino acid sequence being at least 97.5% identical to the amino acid sequence given in SEQ ID NO. 3. The detergents and cleaning agents exhibit an excellent cleaning action on protease-sensitive soiling.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventors: Petra Siegert, Astrid Spitz, Karl-Heinz Maurer
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Patent number: 8017733Abstract: The invention relates to novel polyalkylene glycol compounds and methods of using them. In particular, compounds comprising a novel polyethylene glycol conjugate are used alone, or in combination with antiviral agents to treat a viral infection, such as chronic hepatitis C.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2004Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Biogen Idec MA Inc.Inventors: KoChung Lin, R. Blake Pepinsky, Ling Ling Chen, Donna M. Hess, Edward Y. Lin, Russell C. Petter, Darren P. Baker
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Patent number: 8012267Abstract: A method of machine cleaning dishes in a dishwasher, wherein over the course of a cleaning program, having a pre-rinsing operation and a cleaning operation, two liquid cleansers A and B having the following composition: A:—10 to 75 wt % of builder(s); ?0.1 to 10 wt % of enzyme(s); ?24.9 to 89.9 wt % of solvent; and B: ?10 to 74.9 wt % of builder(s); ?25 to 89.9 wt % of solvent; are metered into the wash bath at two successive times t1 and t2. The liquid cleanser A has a pH value (20° C.) of between 6 and 9 and is metered in at time t1, while the liquid cleanser B has a pH value (20° C.) of between 9 and 14 and is metered in at time t2.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Maren Jekel, Johannes Zipfel, Arnd Kessler
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Publication number: 20110212875Abstract: A solid laundry detergent composition including: (a) detersive surfactant; (b) brightener in micronized particulate form, having a weight average primary particle size of from 3 to 30 micrometers; (c) from 0 wt % to 10 wt % zeolite builder; (d) from 0 wt % to 10 wt % phosphate builder; (e) optionally from 0 wt % to 10 wt % silicate salt; (f) optionally from 0 wt % to 10 wt % layered silicate; and (g) other detergent ingredients.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Inventor: Neil Joseph Lant
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Publication number: 20110212869Abstract: A solid laundry detergent composition including: (a) detersive surfactant; (b) C.I. fluorescent brightener 260 in alpha-crystalline form; (c) from 0 wt % to 10 wt % zeolite builder; (d) from 0 wt % to 10 wt % phosphate builder; (e) optionally from 0 wt % to 10 wt % silicate salt; (f) optionally from 0 wt % to 10 wt % layered silicate; and (g) other detergent ingredients.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Steven George Patterson
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Publication number: 20110212873Abstract: A solid particulate laundry detergent composition including: (a) substituted cellulosic polymer including carboxymethyl substituent groups, and having a degree of substitution (DS) of at least 0.55, and having a degree of blockiness (DB) of at least 0.35, and having a DS+DB is in the range of from 1.05 to 2.00; (b) amylase with greater than 90% identity to the AA560 alpha amylase endogenous to Bacillus sp. DSM 12649 and including: (i) mutations at one or more of positions 9, 149, 182, 186, 202, 257, 295, 299, 323, 339 and 345; and (ii) mutations at four or more of positions 118, 183, 184, 195, 320 and 458; and (c) laundry detergent ingredients.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Inventors: Michelle Meek, Philip Frank Souter, Neil Joseph Lant, Alan Thomas Brooker, Nigel Patrick Somerville Roberts
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Publication number: 20110212872Abstract: A solid particulate laundry detergent composition including: (a) polyethylene glycol polymer including a polyethylene glycol backbone and polyvinyl acetate side chains, wherein the average molecular weight of the polyethylene glycol backbone is in the range of from 4,000 Da to 8,000 Da, wherein the molecular weight ratio of the polyethylene glycol backbone to the polyvinyl acetate side chains is in the range of from 1:1.2 to 1:2, and wherein the average number of graft sites per ethylene oxide units is in the range of from 0.2 to 0.4; (b) amylase with greater than 90% identity to the AA560 alpha amylase endogenous to Bacillus sp. DSM 12649 and including: (i) mutations at one or more of positions 9, 149, 182, 186, 202, 257, 295, 299, 323, 339 and 345; and (ii) mutations at four or more of positions 118, 183, 184, 195, 320 and 458; and (c) laundry detergent ingredients.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Inventors: Michelle Meek, Philip Frank Souter, Neil Joseph Lant, Alan Thomas Brooker, Nigel Patrick Somerville Roberts
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Patent number: 8008056Abstract: Described herein are variants of H. jecorina CBH2, a Cel6A enzyme. The present invention provides novel cellobiohydrolases that have altered thermostability.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2005Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Danisco US Inc.Inventors: Wolfgang Aehle, Frits Goedegebuur, Lydia Dankmeyer, Colin Mitchinson, Paulien Neefe, Brad Kelemen, Robert Caldwell, Pauline Teunissen
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Publication number: 20110201536Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the cleaning performance of a washing or cleaning agent comprising at least one hydrolytic enzyme by addition of a component capable of synergistic interaction with the enzyme. Components capable of such positive synergistic interaction with hydrolytic enzymes include: (i) an amino acid, a polyamino acid, or derivatives thereof; (ii) a biosurfactant; (iii) a microbial metabolite, and a preparation of a microbial culture supernatant that contains at least 2.5 wt % of (i), (ii), or (iii). Additionally, the present invention comprises a method for washing textiles or hard surfaces with an enzymatic washing or cleaning agent that includes at least one of the components (i), (ii), or (iii) capable of increasing the cleaning performance of the washing or cleaning agent through synergistic interaction with the hydrolytic enzyme.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Timothy O'Connell, Petra Siegert, Stefan Evers, Johannes Bongaerts, Thomas Weber, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Cornelius Bessler
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Publication number: 20110201535Abstract: Streptomyces and Bacillus host cells comprising a recombinant nucleic acid encoding a fusion protein containing a signal sequence and a Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor (SSI) protein are provided, as well as methods of producing SSI protein using those cells. In certain embodiments, the host cell is a Streptomyces host cell and the signal to sequence is a celA signal sequence. In other embodiments, the host cell is a Bacillus host cell has a genome that contains inactivated protease genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: DANISCO US INC.Inventors: Bryan P. Fox, Huaming Wang
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Publication number: 20110195481Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of an alpha-amylase having improved stability to chelating agents relative to its parent enzyme, compositions comprising the variants, nucleic acids encoding the variants, methods of producing the variants, and methods for using the variants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Allan Svendsen, Annette Helle Johansen, Mads Bjoernvad, Frank W. Rasmussen, Michael Skjoet, Signe Eskildsen Larsen, Jens Oebro, Svend Kaasgaard, Lars Beier
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Patent number: 7994109Abstract: This invention relates to organic catalysts comprising iminium or oxaziridinium moieties, cleaning compositions comprising such catalysts; and processes for making and using such catalysts and cleaning products.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2009Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gregory Scot Miracle, George Douglas Hiler, II, Susumu Murata, Rebecca Massie Grey
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Publication number: 20110177561Abstract: Disclosed are a number of homologs and variants of Hypocrea jecorina Cel7A (formerly Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase I or CBH1), nucleic acids encoding the same and methods for producing the same. The homologs and variant cellulases have the amino acid sequence of a glycosyl hydrolase of family 7A wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted and/or deleted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: Danisco US Inc.Inventors: Frits Goedegebuur, Peter Gualfetti, Colin Mitchinson, Paulien Neefe
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Publication number: 20110177990Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of a parent ?-amylase, which parent ?-amylase (i) has an amino acid sequence selected from the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID No. 1, SEQ ID No. 2, SEQ ID No. 3, and SEQ ID No.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Henrik Bisgârd-Frantzen, Allan Svendsen, Torben Vedel Borchert
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Patent number: 7977298Abstract: An article comprising a first pouch made of a water-soluble material containing a first solid and/or liquid composition and a second pouch made of a water-soluble material containing a second solid and/or liquid composition characterized in that at least one of the first and second pouches is made from a material which remains substantially intact when immersed in water under a first set of conditions but will readily dissolve or disintegrate when immersed in water under a second set of conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: The Sun Products CorporationInventor: Leslie Joseph Luke Joinson
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Patent number: 7977295Abstract: Water-soluble detergents and enzymes are used for mechanically cleaning textiles or crockery. According to the invention, enzymes with a catalytic effect on typical stains are added to the washing or cleaning process, only for as long as their catalytic effect is desired. This avoids superfluous removal of the enzymes that have been used in a washing or cleaning process.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventor: Egbert Classen
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Patent number: 7973003Abstract: A laundry stain and soil pretreatment sheet including a water soluble or water dispersible carrier layer, preferably polyvinyl alcohol, a removable separator layer, and a layer of cleaning agent composition therebetween. The separator layer is removed, the composition layer is adhered to a stain on clothing, and the clothing is laundered to treat the stain. The carrier layer dissolves or disperses during the laundering.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Dirty Laundry, LLCInventors: Jamie B. Peltz, Robert F. Golownia
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Patent number: 7972822Abstract: An enzymatic process for preparing aliphatic polycarbonates via terpolymerization or transesterification using a dialkyl carbonate, an aliphatic diester, and an aliphatic diol or triol reactant. A catalyst having an enzyme capable of catalyzing an ester hydrolysis reaction in an aqueous environment is subsequently added to the reaction mixture. Next, polymerization of the reaction proceeds for an allotted time at a temperature?100° C. Finally, the copolymer is isolated from an the catalyst via filtration.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Polytechnic Institute of New York UniversityInventors: Richard A. Gross, Zhaozong Jiang
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Publication number: 20110154581Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for producing a polyol oxidase in micoroorganisms, and the use of polyol oxidases in cleaning compositions. The invention includes cleaning compositions that contain combinations of two or more POx oxidases, and cleaning compositions that contain combinations of two or more POx oxidases and a perhydrolase. In particular, the invention provides methods for expressing polyol oxidases in bacterial hosts for use in detergent applications for cleaning, bleaching and disinfecting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2011Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: Danisco US Inc.Inventors: Manoj Kumar, Susan M. Madrid, Hugh C. McDonald, Ayrookaran J. Poulose, Thomas Rand, Huaming Wang
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Publication number: 20110152147Abstract: Encapsulates, compositions, packaged products and displays comprising such encapsulates, and processes for making and using such encapsulates, compositions, packaged products and displays. Such compositions have improved deposition and retention properties that may impart improved benefit characteristics to a composition and/or situs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Johan Smets, An Pintens, Olav Pieter Dora Tony Keijzer, Jean-Francois Bodet, Ariel Lebron, Emiliano Fratini, Chiara Vannucci, Moira Ambrosi, Piero Baglioni, Sandra Jacqueline Guinebretiere, Nianxi Yan, Hongwei Liu
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Publication number: 20110146000Abstract: A method of reducing the occurrence of spontaneous combustion of oil-stained articles is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing an article previously contacted with oil, the oil comprising at least one cis-configured double bond in the fatty acid, providing a solution comprising lipoxygenase, applying the solution to the article for sufficient time to treat the oil wherein treating comprises allowing the lipoxygenase to alter the cis-configured double bonds in the oil.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: ECOLAB USA INC.Inventors: Gregory G. Griese, Richard J. Walsh
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Publication number: 20110152155Abstract: The present invention relates to novel subtilase variants exhibiting alterations relative to the parent subtilase in one or more properties including: Wash performance, thermal stability, storage stability or catalytic activity. The variants of the invention are suitable for use in e.g. cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dishwash compositions, including automatic dishwash compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2011Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Tina Sejersgård Fanø, Claus Von Der Osten, Malene Kappen Krüger, Mads Nørregaard-Madsen
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Patent number: 7964548Abstract: The disclosure relates to an enzyme stabilization system, compositions with the enzyme stabilization system, and methods of using the enzyme composition. Preferred ratios of acid to amine are effective at stabilizing enzyme. Optional nonionic surfactants and solvents also positively contribute to enzyme stability. The compositions are useful in cleaning applications.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2010Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Brandon L. Herdt, Werner Strothoff, Alice Siegmann
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Patent number: 7960332Abstract: A coated granule including a core. The core includes a uniform mixture of a detergent enzyme having an alkaline pH activity optimum, and an acidic buffer component. The acidic buffer component has a pH of 1 to below 7 when measured as a 10% aqueous solution with a pKa in the range of 4 to 9.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2004Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Ole Simonsen, Erik Kjaer Markussen, Hanne Philbert Nielsen, Lone Aslaug Hansen
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Publication number: 20110136720Abstract: A washing or cleaning process includes the step of preparing a washing or cleaning solution that includes a washing or cleaning agent including a hydrolytic enzyme, and a component that, by interacting with the hydrolytic enzyme when the agent is used, affects a synergistic cleaning power. The component may be an anionic and/or polyanionic substance, a cationic and/or polycationic substance, and/or a substance that possesses hydroxyl and/or polyhydroxyl group(s). The process then includes the step of contacting a textile or a hard surface with the washing or cleaning solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2011Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: HENKEL AG & CO. KGaAInventors: Timothy O'Connell, Petra Siegert, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Inga Kerstin Vockenroth
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Patent number: 7955830Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having lipase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2010Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignees: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes A/SInventors: Debbie Yaver, Suzanne Otani, Janine Lin, Christopher Amolo, Kim Borch, Shamkant Anant Patkar, Michael Lamsa, Barbara Cherry
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Publication number: 20110130318Abstract: The present invention relates to an enzyme composition comprising enzyme containing polymer particles, which is useful for detergent compositions, in particular for liquid detergent compositions. In these enzyme containing particles, the particles comprise i) at least one enzyme, and ii) at least one polymer P, which is selected from homo- and copolymers having a backbone, wherein the C—C-backbone carries carboxylgroups, which may be present in the acidic form or in the neutralized form, and wherein the C—C-backbone comprises hydrophobic repeating units.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicants: BASF SE, Novozymes A/SInventors: Steffen Maas, Volker Schwendemann, Lidcay Herrera Taboada, Heike Pfistner, Dieter Boeckh, Ole Simonsen
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Patent number: 7947643Abstract: Laundry treatment composition comprising a substituted polysaccharide having a degree of substitution, DS, of from 0.01 to 0.99 and a specific degree of blockiness, DB, such that either DS+DB is of at least 1 or DB+2DS?DS2 is of at least 1.20, and a laundry adjunct ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2009Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Neil Joseph Lant
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Publication number: 20110112005Abstract: A laundry detergent composition having: (a) from about 1 wt % to about 20 wt % by weight of an alkyl ether sulfate of the general formula: R—(OCH2CH2)x—O—SO3M, wherein R is a non-petroleum derived fatty alcohol with even number of carbon chain lengths of from about C8 to about C20 and wherein x is from about 0.5 to about 8, and where M is an alkali metal or ammonium cation; wherein the composition is substantially free of zeolite builder; wherein the composition is substantially free of phosphate builder; and wherein the composition is substantially free of silicate salt.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Alan Thomas Brooker, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent
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Publication number: 20110105376Abstract: A method of making a Bacillus alpha-amylase variant that increases alpha-amylase production and the alpha-amy-lases produced thereby. The recombinant alpha-amylases can be placed in compositions and used for purposes of laundry detergents, cleaning and dishwashing detergents, fabric desizing, starch liquefaction, cereal liquefaction, starch saccharification, biofilm removal, and starch hydrolysis in cane sugar processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventors: George England, Marc Kolkman, Casper Vroemen
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Publication number: 20110091934Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of a parent laccase. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variant laccases and to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides, and methods of using the variant enzymes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Lars Henrik Oestergaard, Leonardo De Maria, Miguel Duarte Toscano
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Patent number: 7928052Abstract: A method is disclosed for stabilizing liquid enzyme-containing liquid formulations by adding at least one boron compound and at least one alpha-hydroxy-mono-carboxylic acid or the salt of an alpha-hydroxy-mono-carboxylic acid capable of forming an enzyme-stabilizing compound. An enzyme-stabilized formulation is disclosed comprising an alpha-hydroxy-mono-carboxylic acid or the salt of an alpha-hydroxy-mono-carboxylic acid, a boron containing compound capable complexing with an alpha-hydroxy-mono-carboxylic acid, the complex formed by the boron compound and the an alpha-hydroxy-mono-carboxylic acid, and an enzyme. The invention applies to both enzyme concentrate raw materials, and to useful product formulations.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2005Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Inventor: Pierre Marie Lenoir
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Patent number: 7923235Abstract: Described herein are novel gene sequences isolated from Trichoderma reesei. Two genes encoding proteins comprising a cellulose binding domain, one encoding an arabionfuranosidase and one encoding an acetylxylanesterase are described. The sequences, CIP1 and CIP2, contain a cellulose binding domain. These proteins are especially useful in the textile and detergent industry and in pulp and paper industry.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2010Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Danisco US Inc.Inventors: Pamela Foreman, Pieter Van Solingen, Frits Goedegebuur, Michael Ward
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Publication number: 20110081696Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase II activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: April 7, 2011Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Wenping Wu, Lene Lange, Dominique Aubert Skovlund, Ye Liu
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Patent number: 7919299Abstract: The present invention is related to glucoamylases having at least 80% sequence identity to a Trichoderma glucoamylase having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 and biologically functional fragments thereof. The invention is also related to DNA sequences coding for the glucoamylases, vectors and host cells incorporating the DNA sequences, enzyme compositions and methods of using the glucoamylases in various applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2009Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Danisco US Inc.Inventors: Nigel Dunn-Coleman, Paulien Neefe-Kruithof, Craig E. Pilgrim, Piet Van Solingen, Donald E. Ward
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Patent number: 7919281Abstract: The invention relates to a variant of a parent fungal glucoamylase, which exhibits improved thermal stability and/or increased specific activity using saccharide substrates.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2008Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventor: Allan Svendsen
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Publication number: 20110071067Abstract: The invention relates to washing and cleaning agents comprising a combination of chlorophyllase and a further hydrolase, preferably a lipase, particularly a galactolipase. The combination of chlorophyllase and galactolipase improves the cleaning power, particularly for chlorophyll-containing stains, compared to each of the two enzymes alone.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2009Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicants: CLARIANT FINANCE (BVI) LIMITED, C-LECTAInventors: Gerd Reinhardt, Hans Juergen Scholz, Rico Czaja, Thomas Greiner-Stoeffele, Marc Struhalla
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Patent number: 7910533Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid laundry detergent composition in particulate form, comprising: (a) anionic detersive surfactant; (b) a calcium-augmented technology; (c) from 0% to less than 5%, by weight of the composition, of zeolite builder; (d) from 0% to less than 5%, by weight of the composition, of phosphate builder and (e) optionally, from 0% to less than 5%, by weight of the composition, of silicate salt.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2006Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Nigel Patrick Somerville Roberts, John Peter Eric Muller, Lourdes Marina Ramirez Hernadez, Neil Joseph Lant, Doris Appleby, Malcolm McClaren Dodd, Arif Alan Khoudary, Brenda Frances Bennie, Victor Stuart Reid, Simon John Greener
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Publication number: 20110059883Abstract: A method for improving the performance of a powdered microfibrous cellulose (MFC) composition is provided. The method involves degrading a co-agent in the powdered MFC composition using a polymer degrader. The polymer degrader does not substantially degrade the MFC.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: CP KELCO U.S., INC.Inventors: John McArthur Swazey, JR., Nicholas Madison
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Publication number: 20110053822Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having lipase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicants: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes A/SInventors: Debbie Yaver, Suzanne Otani, Janine Lin, Christopher Amolo, Kim Borch, Shamkant Anant Patkar, Michael Lamsa, Barbara Cherry
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Publication number: 20110039751Abstract: This invention relates to compositions comprising certain cellobiose dehydrogenase enzymes and processes for making and using such compositions, including the use of such compositions to clean and/or treat a situs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Inventors: PHILIP FRANK SOUTER, EVA MARIA PEREZ-PRAT VINUESA, ENRIQUE HERRERO ACERO, SINA PRICELIUS, GEORG MAXIMILLIAN GUEBITZ
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Publication number: 20110034365Abstract: A solid laundry detergent composition having: (a) detersive surfactant; and (b) from 0.05 wt % to 20 wt % carboxymethyl cellulose particle, wherein the carboxymethyl cellulose particle: (i) from 70 wt % to 98 wt % carboxymethyl cellulose having an average degree of carboxymethyl substitution of from 0.6 to 0.9; (ii) from 2 wt % to 12 wt % water; (iii) optionally from 0 wt % to 4 wt % sodium glycolate; and (iv) optionally from 0 wt % to 4 wt % sodium chloride.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventor: Neil Joseph Lant
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Publication number: 20110033882Abstract: Variants of B. licheniformis alpha-amylase advantageously exhibit improved enzymatic performance. Suitable variants include those with an altered charge distribution on the surface of the enzyme or with altered active site residues. Structural modeling can inform the choice of amino acid modifications so that modified amino acids correspond to residues found in more active alpha amylases, for example. Compositions comprising the variants are useful in methods of cleaning surfaces, laundering textiles, desizing, treating starch, e.g., liquefaction and saccharification, and hydrolyzing biofilms off various substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2008Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventors: Wolfgang Aehle, Neelam S. Amin
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Publication number: 20110027252Abstract: Variants of Bacillus sp. no. 707 alpha amylase are provided that are produced more efficiently and thus more economically. Higher fermentation yields are achieved through introducing amino acid variations that promote solubility of the variant in a fermentation broth. Increased solubility allows more enzyme to remain in solution after expression in a host cell. This in turn increases the efficiency with which the expressed variant enzyme can be recovered from the fermentation broth.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2008Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventors: Wolfgang Aehle, Neelam S. Amin
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Publication number: 20110028375Abstract: The present invention is related to a fungal serine protease enzyme, which comprises an amino acid sequence the mature Fa_RF7182 enzyme having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 18. The serine protease is obtainable from Fusarium acuminatum, more preferably from the deposited strain CBS 124084. Also disclosed are nucleic acid sequences encoding said protease, such as plasmid pALK2530 comprising the nucleotide sequence SEQ ID NO:12 deposited in Escherichia coli RF7803 under accession number DSM 22208 and plasmid pALK2531 comprising the full-length gene SEQ ID NO: 13 deposited in E. coli RF7879 under accession number DSM 22209, as well as fungal hosts, such as Trichoderm. Said protease is useful as an enzyme preparation applicable in detergent compositions and for treating fibers, for treating wool, for treating hair, for treating leather, for treating food or feed, or for any applications involving modification, degradation or removal of proteinaceous material.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: AB Enzymes OyInventors: Kari Juntunen, Leena Valtakari, Susanna Makinen, Jarno Kallio, Jari Vehmaanpera, Pentti Ojapalo, Marja Paloheimo, George Szakacs