Patents by Inventor Carsten Sjoeholm
Carsten Sjoeholm has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7923232Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having phytase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The polypeptides are related to a phytase derived from Hafnia alvei, the amino acid sequence of which is shown in the appended sequence listing as SEQ ID NO: 10. 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, in particular within animal feed.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Soeren Flensted Lassen, Carsten Sjoeholm, Lars Kobberoee Skov
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Publication number: 20110045136Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having isoamylase activity derived from Dyella japonica 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 of producing and using the polypeptides. The invention also relates to the use of said polypeptide having isoamylase activity for producing glucose syrup, fructose syrup, maltose syrup or maltitol.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Tine Hoff, Carsten Sjoeholm, Barrie Edmund Norman
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Patent number: 7867743Abstract: The invention relates to a phytase derived from Citrobacter braakii and related phytases. The phytases belong to the acid histidine phosphatase family, are acid-stable, of an excellent performance in animal feed, of a high specificity towards the substrate phytate, and expectedly of a high specific activity. The invention also relates to the corresponding DNA, the recombinant and wild-type production of the phytases, as well as the use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2005Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Monica Takamiya Wik, Carsten Sjøholm, Henrik Frisner, Allan Noergaard, Mikael Blom Sørensen
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Publication number: 20100287634Abstract: The invention relates to Citrobacter phytases derived from Citrobacter amalonaticus, Citrobacter gillenii, and related phytases. The phytases belong to the acid histidine phosphatase family, are acid-stable, and expectedly of a high specific activity. The invention also relates to the corresponding DNA, the recombinant and wild-type production of the phytases, as well as the use thereof, in particular in animal feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: MONICA TAKAMIYA WIK, CARSTEN SJØHOLM
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Publication number: 20100081168Abstract: The present invention relates to acid-stable proteases homologous to those derived from strains of the genus Nocardiopsis, their use in animal feed, feed-additives and feed compositions containing such proteases, and methods for the treatment of vegetable proteins using such proteases.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Rahbek Oestergaard
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Patent number: 7658965Abstract: The present invention relates to acid-stable proteases homologous to those derived from strains of the genus Nocardiopsis, their use in animal feed, feed-additives and feed compositions containing such proteases, and methods for the treatment of vegetable proteins using such proteases.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2003Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: DSM Assets B.V.Inventors: Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Rahbek Oestergaard
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Patent number: 7608444Abstract: The present invention relates to acid-stable proteases of the subtilisin family, their use in animal feed, feed-additives and feed compositions containing such proteases, and methods for the treatment of vegetable proteins using such proteases.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2005Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.Inventors: Peter Rahbek Oestergaard, Carsten Sjoeholm, Anna-Marie Kluenter
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Publication number: 20080286415Abstract: Proteases derived from Nocardiopsis dassonvillei subsp. dassonvillei DSM 43235, Nocardiopsis prasina DSM 15649, Nocardiopsis prasina (previously alba) DSM 14010 Nocardiopsis sp. DSM 16424, Nocardiopsis alkaliphila DSM 44657 and Nocardiopsis lucentensis DSM 44048, as well as homologous proteases; their recombinant production in various hosts, including transgenic plants and non-human animals, and their use in animal feed and detergents. The proteases are acid-stable, alkali-stable, and/or thermostable.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2005Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Soren Flensted Lassen, Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Rahbek Oestergaard, Morten Fischer
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Publication number: 20080263688Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having phytase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The polypeptides are related to a phytase derived from Hafnia alvei, the amino acid sequence of which is shown in the appended sequence listing as SEQ ID NO: 10. 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, in particular within animal feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Soeren Flensted Lassen, Carsten Sjoeholm, Lars Kobberoee Skov
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Publication number: 20080222740Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having phytase activity. These polypeptides have an amino acid sequence which has at least 70% identity to either of three phytases derived from the bacterium Buttiauxella, and which comprises at least one of the following amino acids at the position indicated: 119N, 120L, and/or 121E. These phytases have an improved specific activity. Additional specific amino acid substitutions are also disclosed which characterize and distinguish additional phytases of the invention having improved properties such as temperature and/or pH stability, pH activity profile, temperature activity profile, substrate profile, improved performance in animal feed in vitro or in vivo. The invention also relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Carsten Sjoeholm, Soeren Flensted Lassen, Lars Kobberoee Skov, Leonardo De Maria
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Patent number: 7179630Abstract: The present invention relates to thermostable proteases having an amino acid sequence which homologous to the amino acid sequence of proteases derived from Nocardiopsis, and the production thereof by wild-type and recombinant host cells including transgenic plants and non-human transgenic animals. The proteases are effective in animal feed, in particular fish feed, and detergents. The proteases are capable of degrading the soybean Bowman-Birk inhibitor, and other antinutritional factors such as soybean agglutinin and the Kunitz trypsin inhibitor, as well as the isolated soy storage proteins glycinin and beta-conglycinin. Characteristic structural features of relevance for the thermostability of these proteases of peptidase family S2A or S1E are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2004Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Soeren Flensted Lassen, Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Rahbek Oestergaard, Carsten Andersen, Morten Fischer
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Patent number: 6960462Abstract: Acid-stable proteases of the subtilisin family, their use in animal feed, feed-additives and feed compositions containing such proteases, and methods for the treatment of vegetable proteins using such proteases.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2001Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.VInventors: Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Rahbek Oestergaard, Anna-Marie Kluenter
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Publication number: 20050148060Abstract: The present invention relates to acid-stable proteases of the subtilisin family, their use in animal feed, feed-additives and feed compositions containing such proteases, and methods for the treatment of vegetable proteins using such proteases.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2005Publication date: July 7, 2005Applicant: DSM IP Assets B.V.Inventors: Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Oestergaard, Anna-Marie Kluenter
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Publication number: 20050058747Abstract: The present invention relates to thermostable proteases homologous to proteases derived from Nocardiopsis, and the production thereof by the wild-type, and in recombinant host cells including transgenic plants and non-human transgenic animals. The proteases are effective in animal feed, in particular fish feed, and detergents. The proteases are capable of degrading the soybean Bowman-Birk inhibitor, and other antinutritional factors such as soybean agglutinin and the Kunitz trypsin inhibitor, as well as the isolated soy storage proteins glycinin and beta-conglycinin. Characteristic structural features of relevance for the thermostability of these proteases of peptidase family S2A or S1E are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2004Publication date: March 17, 2005Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Soeren Lassen, Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Oestergaard, Carsten Andersen, Morten Fischer
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Patent number: 6855548Abstract: Acid-stable proteases homologous to those derived from strains of the genus Nocardiopsis, their use in animal feed, feed-additives and feed compositions containing such proteases, and methods for the treatment of vegetable proteins using such proteases.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2001Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: F. Hoffman-La Roche AGInventors: Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Rahbek Oestergaard
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Publication number: 20040161448Abstract: The present invention relates to acid-stable proteases homologous to those derived from strains of the genus Nocardiopsis, their use in animal feed, feed-additives and feed compositions containing such proteases, and methods for the treatment of vegetable proteins using such proteases.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2003Publication date: August 19, 2004Applicant: F. Hoffman-La Roche AGInventors: Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Rahbek Oestergaard
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Patent number: 6723504Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of generating a gene library from an environmental pool of organisms, which gene library is enriched in DNA encoding a polypeptide with an activity of interest. Also, the invention provides a method of selecting a DNA sequence of interest from an environmental pool of organisms. Further, the invention relates to a gene library prepared from an enriched environmental pool of organisms enriched in DNA encoding a polypeptide with an activity of interest.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1999Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Thomas Sandal, Carsten Sjøholm, Thomas Schäfer, Lene Lange, Fiona Duffner
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Publication number: 20030021774Abstract: Acid-stable proteases of the subtilisin family, their use in animal feed, feed-additives and feed compositions containing such proteases, and methods for the treatment of vegetable proteins using such proteases.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Rahbek Oestergaard, Anna-Marie Kluenter
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Patent number: 6331426Abstract: The invention relates to a method for modifying animal feed, in particular animal feed containing plant material such as soybean, by adding to the animal feed at least one galactanase enzym, to a method for obtaining a DNA sequence encoding a galactanase enzyme or a portion thereof, and to isolated polynucleotide molecules encoding polypeptides having galactanase activity.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2000Date of Patent: December 18, 2001Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Mads Eskelund Bjørnvad, Ib Groth Clausen, Martin Schülein, Lisbeth Bech, Peter Rahbek Østergaard, Carsten Sjøholm
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Publication number: 20010026797Abstract: Acid-stable proteases homologous to those derived from strains of the genus Nocardiopsis, their use in animal feed, feed-additives and feed compositions containing such proteases, and methods for the treatment of vegetable proteins using such proteases.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2001Publication date: October 4, 2001Inventors: Carsten Sjoeholm, Peter Rahbek Oestergaard