Abstract: Disclosed are variant thermostable cellulases, nucleic acids encoding the variants and methods for producing the variants. The variant thermostable cellulases have the amino acid sequence of a glycosyl hydrolase of family 12 wherein one or more amino acid residues which are not part of the catalytic domain are deleted. In specific embodiments, the variant thermostable cellulase is a variant of Cel12A of Rhodothermus marinus.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 23, 2001
Publication date:
August 1, 2002
Applicant:
Prokaria 1td.
Inventors:
Krzysztof B. Wicher, Olof Peder Holst, Maher Youssef Abou Hachem, Eva Margareta Nordberg Karlsson, Gudmundur O. Hreggvidsson