Patents Assigned to Danisco A/S
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Publication number: 20120183516Abstract: The invention relates to use of a bacterium selected from a lactic acid bacterium, a Bifidobacterium or a mixture of any thereof for treating metabolic endotoxemia, inhibiting bacterial translocation and regulating lipid absorption in a mammal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2010Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: Danisco A/SInventors: Rémy Burcelin, Didier Carcano, Pierre Desreumaux, Sampo Lahtinen, Nina Rautionen, Heil Putaala, Kirsti Tiihonen, Rodolphe Barrangou
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Publication number: 20120149070Abstract: The present invention relates to combinatorial variants of a parent glucoamylase that have altered properties for reducing the synthesis of condensation products during hydrolysis of starch. Accordingly the variants of a parent glucoamylase are suitable such as for use within brewing and glucose syrup production. Also disclosed are DNA constructs encoding the variants and methods of producing the glucoamylase variants in host cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicants: DANISCO US INC., DANISCO A/SInventors: Peter Edvard Degn, Richard Bott, Casper Willem Vroemen, Martijn Silvan Scheffers, Wolfgang Aehle
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Publication number: 20120149927Abstract: The present invention provides methods and uses for treating pyropheophytin-containing compositions, particularly in order to remove pyropheophytin therefrom. The compositions are typically plant, algal, or bacterial derived products such as vegetable oils. The method comprises a step of contacting the compositions with an enzyme having pyropheophytinase activity. Also provided are related apparatus and products for performing such methods and uses.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: Danisco A/SInventors: Jørn Borch Søe, Charlotte Horsmans Poulsen, Masoud Rajabi Zargahi, Jens Frisbæ Sørensen, Tina Jørgensen, Janne Brunstedt, Rene Mikkelsen, Susan Mampusti
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Publication number: 20120142531Abstract: The present invention relates to coated dehydrated microorganisms comprising a dehydrated microorganism surrounded by at least one coating, said coating comprising by dry weight at least 25% of hygroscopic salt(s) and wherein the pH of the coating is compatible with viability of the coated dehydrated microorganism. The coating can be partially crystalline, the salt(s) in the coating having preferably a crystallinity degree of up to 60% once applied onto the dehydrated microorganism. The present invention also relates to liquid coating compositions, methods for coating and protecting a dehydrated microorganism. Finally, the present invention relates to a method for the preparation of food products, feed products, consumer healthcare products or agri-products as well as to a food product, feed product, a consumer healthcare product or an agri-product containing such coated dehydrated microorgansims.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: DANISCO A/SInventors: Isabelle Mazeaud, Kathryn Tse, Jean-Philippe Obert, Claudette Berger, Geoffrey Babin, Patrick Chaigneau, Hans Hedegaard Jensen, Erwan Henri
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Patent number: 8192629Abstract: The present invention relates to a chromatographic separation process for fractionating betaine-containing solutions by utilizing fractions comprising parts of the separation profile as a substituent of the eluent in a novel and inventive manner. The process provides improved separation capacity and separation efficiency without affecting the yield or purity of betaine or other products. The process can especially be applied to sequential SMB separation systems.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2010Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Danisco A/SInventors: Jyrki Airaksinen, Heikki Heikkilä, Jari Lewandowski, Kari Laiho
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Patent number: 8192782Abstract: A process of enzymatic degumming edible oils, comprising treating edible oil with a lipid acyltransferase so as to transfer an acyl group from a major part of the phospholipid to one or more acyl acceptors, wherein the acyl acceptor may be any compound comprising a hydroxyl group. In one embodiment preferably the acyl acceptor is water and in another embodiment preferably the acyl acceptor is one or more sterols and/or stanols. When the acyl acceptor is a stanol and/or sterol, one or more sterol esters and/or stanol esters are produced.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Danisco A/SInventors: Jorn Borch Søe, Mark Turner
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Publication number: 20120129264Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides, nucleic acids and methods for transforming a bacterium belonging to the Streptococcus genus by natural competence and their use in the food and feed industry.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: DANISCO A/SInventors: Patrick Boyaval, Christophe Fremaux, Pascal Hols, Laetitia Fontaine, Philippe Horvath
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Patent number: 8178090Abstract: Use of a preparation as an antimicrobial agent or as an anti-oxidant; wherein said preparation comprises a polypeptide having hexose oxidase activity, the polypeptide being in a substantially pure form, and said polypeptide comprises at least one amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of (i) (SEQ?ID?NO:?1) Tyr-Glu-Pro-Tyr-Gly-Gly-Val-Pro (ii) (SEQ?ID?NO:?2) Ala-Ile-Ile-Asn-Val-Thr-Gly-Leu-Val-Glu-Ser-Gly- Tyr-Asp-X-X-X-Gly-Tyr-X-Val-Ser-Ser- (iii) (SEQ?ID?NO:?3) Asp-Leu-Pro-Met-Ser-Pro-Arg-Gly-Val-Ile-Ala-Ser- Asn-Leu-X-Phe- (iv) (SEQ?ID?NO:?4) Asp-Ser-Glu-Gly-Asn-Asp-Gly-Glu-Leu-Phe-X-Ala-His- Thr (v) (SEQ?ID?NO:?5) Tyr-Tyr-Phe-Lys (vi) (SEQ?ID?NO:?6) Asp-Pro-Gly-Tyr-Ile-Val-Ile-Asp-Val-Asn-Ala-Gly- Thr-X-Asp (vii) (SEQ?ID?NO:?7) Leu-Gln-Tyr-Gln-Thr-Tyr-Trp-Gln-Glu-Glu-Asp (viii) (SEQ?ID?NO:?8) X-Ile-Arg-Asp-Phe-Tyr-Glu-GluType: GrantFiled: March 3, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Danisco A/SInventors: Peter Stougaard, Ole Cai Hansen, Charlotte Horsmans Poulsen, Karsten Matthias Kragh
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Patent number: 8178336Abstract: We describe a PS4 variant polypeptide derivable from a parent polypeptide having non-maltogenic exoamylase activity, in which the PS4 variant polypeptide comprises an amino acid substitution at position 307 to lysine (K) or arginine (R), with reference to the position numbering of a Pseudomonas saccharophilia exoamylase sequence shown as SEQ ID NO: 1. Preferably, the PS4 variant polypeptide further comprises an amino acid substitution at position 70, preferably G70D. The amino acid at positions 272 and 303 of the sequence of the are preferably histidine (H) and glycine (G).Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Danisco A/SInventors: Patrick Maria Franciscus Derkx, Anja Kellet-Smith Hemmingen, Rie Mejldal, Bo Spange Sørensen, Karsten Matthias Kragh
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Publication number: 20120112120Abstract: The invention relates to the use of solid betaine for de-icing and/or preventing slipperiness. The solid betaine comprises at least one non-betaine compound affecting water and/or moisture movement in said solid betaine. The invention further relates to a process for the manufacture of solid betaine. A suspension comprising betaine crystals is prepared from a feed liquid and the betaine crystals are separated and washed. The amount of wash liquid is adjusted in order to leave 0.5 to 10 w-% of at least one non-betaine compound in said solid betaine.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: DANISCO A/SInventors: Juha Nurmi, Kirsti Jutila, Hannu Paananen, Kristian Eriksson
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Publication number: 20120107296Abstract: The present invention relates to a feed supplement comprising a phytase and a lipolytic enzyme, wherein said lipolytic enzyme has lipase activity at a pH in the range of about pH1.5 to about pH3.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: DANISCO A/SInventors: Mai Faurschou Isaksen, Rikke Høegh Lorentsen, Peter Plumstead, Luis Fernando Romero Millán, Susan Madrid, Cherry Lin, Michael Ward, Masoud Rajabi Zargahi
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Publication number: 20120107291Abstract: This invention relates to new uses of Bifidobacteria (particularly, although not exclusively, probiotic Bifidobacteria), and to food products, feed products, dietary supplements and pharmaceutical formulations containing them. The bacteria are suitable for the treatment of diabetes (particularly Type 2 diabetes), obesity and related conditions, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and impaired glucose metabolism and consequences thereof, lowering tissue inflammation, treating hepatitis, myositis and cardiovascular conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: Danisco A/SInventors: Rémy Burcelin, Didier Carcano, Sampo Lahtinen
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Publication number: 20120100118Abstract: Disclosed are methods of administering at least two Bacillus strains to a pig, such as female breeding stock, nursery pigs, or other pigs. The Bacillus strains inhibit Clostridium in litters borne to the pig. The Bacillus strains also are useful when administered to herds lacking symptoms of Clostridium infection. Administration of the Bacillus strains improves performance of female breeding stock and in piglets borne by the female breeding stock.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: DANISCO A/SInventors: Thomas Rehberger, Mari Ellen Davis, Ashley Baker
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Patent number: 8163317Abstract: There is provided a process for the prevention and/or reduction of Maillard reaction in a foodstuff containing (i) a protein, a peptide or an amino acid and (ii) a reducing sugar, the process comprising contacting the foodstuff with an enzyme capable of oxidising a reducing group of the sugar.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2005Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Danisco A/SInventors: Jørn Borch Søe, Lars Wexøe Petersen, Charlotte Horsmans Poulsen, Thomas Rand, Dana L. Boll
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Patent number: 8163315Abstract: There is provided use of a conversion agent to prepare from a food material a foodstuff comprising at least one functional ingredient, wherein the at least one functional ingredient has been generated from at least one constituent of the food material by the conversion agent.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Danisco A/SInventor: Jørn Borch Søe
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Patent number: 8143048Abstract: This invention relates to amylase polypeptides, and nucleic acids encoding the polpypeptides and uses thereof. The amylases of the present invention have been engineered to have more beneficial qualities. Specifically, the amylases of the current invention show an altered exospecifity.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2004Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Danisco A/SInventors: Karsten Matthias Kragh, Kirsten Bojsen, Casper Tune Berg, Patrick M. F. Derkx, Anja H. Kellett-Smith, Charlotte Refdahl Thoudahl, Carol Fioresi, Wei Liu, Andrew Shaw, Gijsbert Gerritse
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Patent number: 8143045Abstract: The present invention relates to enzymes and processes. In particular, there is described an isolated polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence corresponding to Citrobacter freundii phytase or a homologue, a modified form, a functional equivalent or an effective fragment thereof. There is also described a host cell transformed or transfected with a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial phytase enzyme or a modified form as well as the use of such a phytase or modified form in food or animal feed.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2007Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Danisco A/SInventors: Andrei Miasnikov, Vijay Kumar, Oliver Kensch, Klaus Pellangahr, Birgitta Leuthner, Ulrich Kettling, Andre Koltermann
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Patent number: 8137944Abstract: Variant polypeptides derivable from a parent polypeptide having non-maltogenic exoamylase activity, in which the variant polypeptides comprise an amino acid mutation at one or more positions selected from the group consisting of: 121, 161, 223, 146, 157, 158, 198, 229, 303, 306, 309, 316, 353, 26, 70, 145, 188, 272, 339, with reference to the position numbering of a Pseudomonas saccharophila exoamylase sequence shown as SEQ ID NO: 1.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2005Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Danisco A/SInventors: Casper Tune Berg, Patrick M. F. Derkx, Carol Fioresi, Gijsbert Gerritse, Anja Hemmingen Kellet-Smith, Karsten Matthias Kragh, Wei Liu, Andrew Shaw, Bo Spange Sørensen, Charlotte Refdahl Thoudahl
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Publication number: 20120063950Abstract: A composition is provided that includes Bacillus subtilis 2084 (NRRL B-50013) or a strain having all of the identifying characteristics of the Bacillus subtilis 2084 (NRRL B-50013), B. subtilis 27 (NRRL B-50105) or a strain having all of the identifying characteristics of the B. subtilis 27 (NRRL B-50105), and B. licheniformis 21 (NRRL B-50134) or a strain having all of the identifying characteristics of the B. licheniformis 21 (NRRL B-50134). Animal bedding that includes the Bacillus strains is also provided, as well as a method of making the animal bedding. Also provided are methods of controlling odors from animal waste. A method of making a composition including the Bacillus strains is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: DANISCO A/SInventors: Marianne Cain Bellot, Keith J. Mertz, Thomas G. Rehberger
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Patent number: RE43341Abstract: A method of improving the rheological and/or machineability properties of a flour dough and/or the quality of the product made from the dough, comprising adding to the dough a combination comprising a Hox and an emulsifying agent.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Danisco A/SInventors: Torkil Steenholt Olsen, Inge Lise Povlsen, Jorn Borch Soe, Charlotte Horsmans Poulsen, Pernille Bak Hostrup