Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a variant lipid acyltransferase enzyme by expressing a nucleotide sequence encoding a lipid acyltransferase which may comprise at least one modification at a position(s) which corresponds in the encoded amino acid sequence to an amino acid(s) located in a) the canyon region of the enzyme (i.e. preferably amino acid residues 31, 27, 85, 86, 119, and 120); and/or b) insertion site 1 (i.e. amino acid residues 22-36) and/or c) insertion site 2 (i.e. amino acid residues 74-88), wherein the canyon region, insertion site 1 and/or insertion site 2 are defined as that region which when aligned based on primary or tertiary structure corresponds to the canyon region, insertion site 1 or insertion site 2 (or the corresponding amino acid residues taught above) of the enzyme shown herein as SEQ ID No. 16 or 6 in a host organism.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a variant lipid acyltransferase enzyme by expressing a nucleotide sequence encoding a lipid acyltransferase which may comprise at least one modification at a position(s) which corresponds in the encoded amino acid sequence to an amino acid(s) located in a) the canyon region of the enzyme (i.e. preferably amino acid residues 31, 27, 85, 86, 119, and 120); and/or b) insertion site 1 (i.e. amino acid residues 22-36) and/or c) insertion site 2 (i.e. amino acid residues 74-88), wherein the canyon region, insertion site 1 and/or insertion site 2 are defined as that region which when aligned based on primary or tertiary structure corresponds to the canyon region, insertion site 1 or insertion site 2 (or the corresponding amino acid residues taught above) of the enzyme shown herein as SEQ ID No. 16 or 6 in a host organism.

Abstract: A preserved and/or conserved water based paint composition comprising an oxidoreductase, an oxidizing agent, a binder and at least 10% w/w water.

Abstract: An enzymatic antimicrobial composition comprising a haloperoxidase, a hydrogen peroxide source, a halide source, and an ammonium source, in particular an ammonium salt or an aminoalcohol, in which there is a hitherto unknown synergistic effect between the halide and the ammonium source.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of reducing malodor in laundry, comprising contacting laundry with an enzyme having lysostaphin activity; and compositions comprising a surfactant and an enzyme having lysostaphin activity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an enzymatic composition capable of killing or inhibiting microbial cells or micro-organisms, e.g. in laundry, on hard surfaces, in water systems, on skin, on teeth or on mucous membranes. The present invention also relates to the use of said enzymatic composition for preserving food products, cosmetics, paints, coatings, etc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having polypeptide having 2,6-&bgr;-D-fructan hydrolase 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.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of reducing malodor in laundry, comprising contacting laundry with an enzyme having lysostaphin activity; and compositions comprising a surfactant and an enzyme having lysostaphin activity.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an enzyme containing cleaning particle having a size of more than 10.5 mm in its longest dimension, wherein the non-enzyme components of the particle have a detergency of less than 4.

Abstract: Haloperoxidases are capable of exhibiting excellent oxidizing, bleaching, and antimicrobial activity, when combined with carboxylic acids. Accordingly, the invention provides an enzymatic composition comprising a haloperoxidase, a source of hydrogen peroxide, and a source of a carboxylic acid.

Abstract: Enzymatic compositions comprising a Coprinus peroxidase, hydrogen, peroxide or a source of hydrogen peroxide, and an enhancing agent such as an electron donor, e.g., phenothiazine-10-propionic acid; 2,2′-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonate); acetosyringate; C1-8-alkylsyringate; or a water-soluble halide or thiocynate salt such as potassium iodide, have antimicrobial properties useful e.g., for inhibiting or killing microorganizms present in laundry, on human or animal skin, hair, mucous membranes, oral cavities, teeth, wounds, bruises, and on hard surfaces, and can be used as disinfectant, a preservative for cosmetics, and for cleaning, disinfecting or inhibiting microbial growth on process equipment used for e.g. water treatment, food processing, chemical or pharmaceutical processing, paper pulp processing, and water sanitation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an enzymatic method for killing or inhibiting microbial cells or microorganisms, e.g. in laundry, on hard surfaces, in water systems, on skin, on teeth or on mucous membranes. The present invention also relates to the use of said enzymatic composition for preserving food products, cosmetics, paints, coatings, etc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an enzymatic composition capable of killing or inhibiting microbial cells or micro-organisms, e.g. in laundry, on hard surfaces, in water systems, on skin, on teeth or on mucous membranes. The present invention also relates to the use of said enzymatic composition for preserving food products, cosmetics, paints, coatings, etc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having polypeptide having 2,6-&bgr;-D-fructan hydrolase 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.

Abstract: The invention provides an antimicrobial composition comprising an enzymatic component and one or more non-enzymatic biocides; a method for killing or inhibiting microbial cells comprising a treatment with the antimicrobial composition; and a detergent composition comprising the antimicrobial composition. The invention provides an improved antimicrobial effect.

Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having polypeptide having 2,6-&bgr;-D-fructan hydrolase 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.

Abstract: A method for antimicrobial treatment of microorganisms and/or viruses which involves treating the microorganisms and/or viruses with an effective amount of a fungal laccase and one or more enhancers in the presence of oxygen, the enhancers having the formula: 1

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of killing or inhibiting the growth of microbial cells present on laundry, comprising contacting the cells with a composition comprising a poly-cationic compound, preferably a polyamino acid, a polyvinylamine, a copolymer prepared from vinylamine and one or more carboxylic acid anhydrides, e.g. a polymer comprising 0.1-100 mol % vinyl amine or ethyleneimine units, 0-99.

Abstract: An enzymatic antimicrobial composition comprising a haloperoxidase, a hydrogen peroxide source, a halide source, and an ammonium source, in particular an ammonium salt or an aminoalcohol, in which there is a hitherto unknown synergistic effect between the halide and the ammonium source.

Abstract: Use of polymers which contain (a) 0.1 to 100 mol % of vinylamine units or ethyleneimine units, (b) 0 to 99.9 mol % of units of at least one monomer from the group consisting of open-chain N-vinylcarboxamides, vinyl formate, vinyl acetate, vinyl propionate, vinyl alcohol, C1- to C6-alkyl vinyl ethers, monoethylenically unsaturated C3- to C8-carboxylic acids, their esters, nitriles, amides and anhydrides, N-vinylurea, N-vinylimidazoles and N-vinylimidazolines and (c) 0 to 5 mol % of units of monomers having at least two ethylenically unsaturated double bonds, in copolymerized form, the sum of (a), (b) and (c) in mol % always being 100, as biocide.