Patent number: 5677272
Abstract: The invention herein provides bleaching compositions comprising a protease enzyme which is a carbonyl hydrolase variant having an amino acid sequence not found in nature, which is derived by replacement of a plurality of amino acid residues of a precursor carbonyl hydrolase with different amino acids, wherein said plurality of amino acid residues replaced in the precursor enzyme correspond to position +76 in combination with one or more of the following residues: +99, +101, +103, +104, +107, +123, +27, +105, +109, +126, +128, +135, +156, +166, +195, +197, +204, +206, +210, +216, +217, +218, +222, +260, +265, and/or +274, where the numbered positions corresponds to naturally-occurring subtilisin from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens or to equivalent amino acid residues in other carbonyl hydrolases or subtilisins (such as Bacillus lentus subtilisin) and a bleaching agent.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 13, 1994
Date of Patent:
October 14, 1997
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, Michael Eugene Burns, David Neil DiGiulio, Edward Eugene Getty, Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Alan David Willey, Philip F. Brode, Bobby L. Barnett, Donn N. Rubingh