Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Robert Starnes
  • Methods of producing protein hydrolysates
    Patent number: 6465209
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing protein hydrolysates, comprising adding to a proteinaceous material one or more aminopeptidase(s) having glycine releasing properties and one or more additional proteases wherein the amount of glycine produced is greater than the amount of glycine produced by the one or more additional proteases alone under the same conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignees: Novozymes Biotech, Inc., Novozymes A/S, Japan Tobacco, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Blinkovsky, Kimberly Brown, Elizabeth Golightly, Tony Byun, Thomas E. Mathiasen, Lene V. Kofod, Mikio Fujii, Chigusa Marumoto
  • Polypeptides having pectin acetylesterase activity and nucleic acids encoding same
    Patent number: 6184028
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having pectin acetylesterase 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk Biotech, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Thomas, Kimberly M. Brown
  • Genes encoding signal recognition particle of Aspergillus niger
    Patent number: 5922561
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid construct containing a nucleic acid sequence encoding an element of a filamentous fungal signal recognition particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk Biotech, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheryl Ann Thompson, Debbie Sue Yaver