Enzyme Component Of Specific Activity Or Source (e.g., Protease, Of Bacterial Origin, Etc.) Patents (Class 510/392)
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Patent number: 7112429Abstract: The invention provides a thermal tolerant mannanase that is a member of the glycoside hydrolase family. The invention further discloses this mannanase as ManA. ManA has been isolated and characterized from Acidothermus cellulolyticus. The invention further provides recombinant forms of the identified ManA. Methods of making ManA polypeptides, including fusions, variants, and derivatives, are also disclosed. Methods of using mannanase A, including for the processing of food and for use in food stuffs as bulking agents and the like, are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2001Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: Midwest Research InstituteInventors: Shi-You Ding, William S. Adney, Todd B. Vinzant, Michael E. Himmel
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Patent number: 7091169Abstract: A textile-care composition that advantageously combines colour preservation with care of fibres and especially greying-inhibiting action was to be developed. That was achieved by means of a composition for textile care, comprising at least one cellulase and at least one colour-fixing polymer containing imidazolidine units.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2001Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Dieter Nickel, Patrizia Bianconi, Theodor Völkel, Horst-Dieter Speckmann, Maren Jekel
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Patent number: 7078213Abstract: The present invention relates to amylases having improved washing performance in an alkaline detergent solution at low temperature. More specifically, the present invention provides novel ?-amylases from Bacillus sp. with improved performance in alkaline solutions, especially in alkaline detergent solutions at pH around 9–11.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1999Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Helle Outtrup, Bjarne Rønfeldt Nielsen, Lisbeth Hedegaard, Jens Toenne Andersen
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Patent number: 7041793Abstract: Detergent composition comprising fusion protein comprising a cellulose binding domain and a domain having a high binding affinity for another ligand. Preferably, the domain having a high binding affinity is directed at a Benefit Agent.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2001Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Paul James Davis, Neil James Parry
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Patent number: 7030101Abstract: Compositions and kits comprising combinations of ?-glucans and specific immunoglobulins are disclosed. The compositions and kits are useful in methods of preventing or treating infection by a pathogenic microorganism, in which ?-glucan is administered to a subject, and specific antibodies to a pathogenic microorganism are introduced into the subject.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2002Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Nabi BiopharmaceuticalsInventors: Viliam Pavliak, Ali Ibrahim Fattom, Robert B. Naso
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Patent number: 6987087Abstract: The present invention relates to a Vibrio metscnikovii variants, more particularly to a biochemical characteristics of protease which is obtained from Vibrio metscnikovii variant strains such as Vibrio metschnikovii KS1, Vibrio metschnikovii KS1 transformed with pDSBCm, Vibrio metschnikovii KS1 transformed with pSBCm and Vibrio metschnikovii RH530 N-4-8 strain, the mother strain of Vibrio metschnikovii and to a detergent composition including the protease.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2002Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: Cheil Jedang CorporationInventors: Ghee-Hong Jin, Sung-Hoo Jhon, Hyun-Hwan Lee, Hyune-Mo Rho
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Patent number: 6979669Abstract: A granulate for particulate detergents or cleaning agents, the granulate containing a detergent or cleaning agent active ingredient and an outer encapsulation layer formed of polyvalent metal salts of an unbranched or branched, unsaturated or saturated, mono- or polyhydroxylated fatty acid having at least 12 carbon atoms or a mixture of the salts. Also, a process for making the granulate by applying to the granules an encapsulation material that comprises one or more polyvalent metal salt or salts, preferably in the form of an aqueous dispersion in a fluidized bed process.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2004Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Wilfried Raehse, Dieter Baur, Werner Pichler
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Patent number: 6964943Abstract: Laundry detergent compositions comprising a mannanase and a cotton soil release polymer for superior cleaning and soil release performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1998Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Inventors: Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Christiaan Arthur Jacques Kamiel Thoen
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Patent number: 6964944Abstract: Lipolytic enzymes are chemically modified by covalently linking one or more (particularly 1–3) hydrophobic groups to the enzyme molecule. The chemical modification improves the performance of the lipolytic enzyme, e.g., in baking or in detergents.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2000Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Thomas Hønger Callisen, Shamkant Anant Patkar, Allan Svendsen, Jesper Vind
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Patent number: 6946128Abstract: The present disclosure relates to subtilisin protease conjugate comprising a protease moiety and one or more addition moieties. Each addition moiety is covalently attached to an epitope protection position of the protease moiety. The protease conjugates have decreased immunogenicity relative to a parent protease. The present disclosure further relates to cleaning and personal care compositions comprising the protease conjugates.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2000Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Donn Nelton Rubingh, David John Weisgerber, Paul Elliott Correa
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Patent number: 6939836Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous composition comprising in combination an alkyl pyrrolidone, such as a C8-C18 linear alkyl pyrrolidone, and an alkyl polysaccharide such as an alkyl polyglucoside, and a method of .enhancing the efficacy of an enzyme containing composition for use in cleaning medical instruments comprising the step of including in said composition an alkyl pyrrolidone and an alkyl polysaccharide. The methods and compositions of the present invention may further include at least one enzyme such as proteases, lipases, amylases, and cellulases.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Novapharm Research (Australia) Pty LtdInventors: Steven Kritzler, Alex Sava
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Patent number: 6921655Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide enzymes that have high endoglucanase activity and yet exhibit high activity even under alkaline conditions, and genes encoding the same. The enzyme according to the invention has the following properties: a) exhibiting endoglucanase activity; and b) capable of completely removing fuzz from regenerated cellulose fabrics at a concentration of 1 mg of the protein/L or below. The enzyme of the invention having endoglucanase activity is a protein comprising the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 or 11; a modified protein thereof exhibiting endoglucanase activity; or a homologue of the protein or the modified protein.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1999Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignee: Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.Inventors: Yuko Nakamura, Tatsuki Moriya, Yuko Baba, Koji Yanai, Naomi Sumida, Tomoko Nishimura, Kouichirou Murashima, Akitaka Nakane, Takashi Yaguchi, Jinichiro Koga, Takeshi Murakami, Toshiaki Kono
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Patent number: 6919428Abstract: Fusion protein comprising a cellulose binding domain and a domain having a high binding affinity for another ligand and detergent compositions comprising such fusion proteins.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2000Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Unilever Home Products and Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Paul James Davis, Neil James Parry
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Patent number: 6908757Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of serine proteases having decreased immunogenicity relative to their corresponding wild-type proteases. More particularly, the present invention relates to variants having a modified amino acid sequence of a wild-type amino acid sequence, wherein the modified amino acid sequence comprises a deletion and, optionally, a substitution of one or more specifically identified positions corresponding to subtilisin BPN?. The invention further relates to mutant genes encoding such variants and cleaning and personal care compositions comprising such variants.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1999Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Donn Nelton Rubingh, Elizabeth Ellen Sikorski, Paul Elliott Correa
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Patent number: 6906024Abstract: The present invention relates to fabric care compositions comprising one or more amino acid sequence(s) comprising a Cellulose Binding Domain for providing fabric care. In a further embodiment, the present invention relates to fabric care compositions wherein the amino acid sequence comprising one or more cellulose binding domains is linked to a softening protein.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1999Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: AndréCesar Baeck, Johan Smets, Stanton Lane Boyer
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Patent number: 6900295Abstract: The present invention is an enzyme-decomposable polymer compound having recyclable decomposition products. The polymeric compound is a glycopolymer of a saccharide having only glucopyranose rings and a second component. In addition, the glycopolymer may contain molecular chains having at least one type of repeating unit, which chains are crosslinked by a saccharide having only glucopyranose rings.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2001Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyoshi Kishi, Toyoko Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Sakai, Norio Kaneko, Kazumi Tanaka, Chieko Mihara, Toshihiko Takeda, Yoshihiko Kikuchi
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Patent number: 6894013Abstract: Disclosed are detergent compositions for hand dishwashing which, by incorporating certain organic solvents, results in a liquid dishwashing detergent composition that is not only a more effective cleaning agent, but also offers improved physical and enzymatic stability and more convenient rheology and handling characteristics than typical liquid dishwashing compositions.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2004Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Joanna Margaret Clarke, Garry Kenneth Embleton, Howard David Hutton, Mark Leslie Kacher, John David Sadler, Deborah Pancheri Wallace
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Patent number: 6887986Abstract: The invention relates to a variant of a parent Termamyl-like ?-amylase, comprising mutations in two, three, four, five or six regions/positions. The variants have increased stability at high temperatures (relative to the parent). The invention also relates to a DNA construct comprising a DNA sequence encoding an ?-amylase variant of the invention, a recombinant expression vector which carries a DNA construct of the invention, a cell which is transformed with a DNA construct of the invention, the use of an ?-amylase variant of the invention for washing and/or dishwashing, textile desizing, starch liquefaction, a detergent additive comprising an ?-amylase variant of the invention, a manual or automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprising an ?-amylase variant of the invention, a method for generating a variant of a parent Termamyl-like ?-amylase, which variant exhibits increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1999Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Allan Svendsen, Soren Kjaerulff, Henrik Bisgard-Frantzen, Carsten Andersen
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Patent number: 6872696Abstract: The present invention provides an improved coating material for use with particles, such as enzyme granules, and the like. In particular, the present invention provides a modified PVA, as well as particles or granules that include such coating. The PVA is modified by substituting hydrophilic moieties for the hydroxyl or alcohol groups of the PVA. Substitution may be achieved with hydrophilic acids, amines, thiols, or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2001Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: Genencor International, Inc.Inventors: Nathaniel T. Becker, Matthew J. Flynn, Mark S. Gebert
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Patent number: 6867194Abstract: Sugar-modified SIN-1 compositions are provided. The compositions are useful for generating NO in response to hydrolytic activity of a glycosidase specific for the O-glycosidic bond between the sugar and SIN-1 moieties. Pharmaceutical compositions containing the sugar-modified SIN-1 compositions and methods of using the compositions are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2001Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Wayne State UniversityInventors: Peng George Wang, Xuejun Wu, Xiaoping Tang
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Patent number: 6867032Abstract: The invention provides an enzymatic unhairing agent for use in an unhairing step in tanning for producing leather comprising an alkaline protease as an active component; a treatment solution comprising a pH-adjusting agent and the enzymatic unhairing agent; a method for enzymatic unhairing treatment in tanning for producing leather comprising contacting the treatment solution with a raw hide or skin; and a leather thus produced. According to the invention, it is attained markedly reduction of the pollution load in the unhairing waste water and leather and recovered hairs both of good quality can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2000Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Daiwa Kasei K.K.Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimizu, Atsushi Sugiyama, Akira Ohta
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Patent number: 6849591Abstract: A description is given of a microcapsule formulation comprising microcapsules having a core of a hydrophobic material and a capsule shell of an addition polymer containing in copolymerized form at least 1% by weight of cationogenic monomers and/or polyethylenically unsaturated monomers whose unsaturated sites are connected via successive chemical bonds of which at least one bond is acid-hydrolyzable. A description is further given of a microcapsule formulation comprising microcapsules having a core of a hydrophobic material, which comprises at least one fragrance or perfume, and a shell of an addition polymer containing in copolymerized form at least 1% by weight of anionogenic monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and/or polyethylenically unsaturated monomers whose unsaturated sites are connected via successive chemical bonds of which at least one bond is base-hydrolyzable. The microcapsule formulations are employed in laundry detergents or cleaning products.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2000Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dieter Boeckh, Ekkehard Jahns, Werner Bertleff, Peter Neumann
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Patent number: 6838425Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning compositions comprising a protease variant.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2002Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, André Cesar Baeck, Ryohei Ohtani, Alfred Busch, Michael Stanford Showell, Ayrookaran J. Poulose, Volker Schellenberger, James T. Kellis, Jr., Christian Paech, Joanne Nadherny, Donald P. Naki, Katherine D. Collier, Robert M. Caldwell
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Patent number: 6835706Abstract: Solid block alkaline detergent compositions are disclosed comprising a source of alkalinity, and other detergent additives including sequestrants. The solid block detergents of the invention used a mixed inorganic and organic sequestrant composition that successfully softens service water used in manufacturing aqueous detergents from the composition, but also obtains substantially improved organic soil removal on dishware or flatware. The solid block detergents of the invention comprise large masses of the chemical ingredients having a weight of greater than about 500 grams in a solid block product format that is typically dispensed using a spray on water dispenser that creates an aqueous concentrate that is used in a washing machine.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2003Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Lentsch, Keith E. Olson, Victor F. Man
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Patent number: 6831053Abstract: The present invention relates to bleaching compositions comprising a protease variant.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2000Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, André Cesar Baeck, Ryohei Ohtani, Alfred Busch, Michael Stanford Showell, Ayrookaran J. Poulose, Volker Schellenberger, James T. Kellis, Jr., Christian Paech, Joanne Nadherny, Donald P. Naki, Katherine D. Collier, Robert M. Caldwell
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Publication number: 20040235125Abstract: The invention relates to a novel enzyme obtained from Bacillus agaradherens (DSM 9948), which can be regarded as cyclodextrin glucanotransferase (CGTase) and also as &agr;-amylase. The invention also relates to sufficiently similar proteins or derivatives that exhibit amylolytic and/or CGTase activity, to the corresponding nucleic acids and micro-organisms that produce said proteins and derivatives, to methods for the production of said proteins and to diverse uses of the same. In addition, said proteins can be further developed for other, predominantly technical purposes. The invention relates in particular to detergents and cleaning agents containing CGTase of this type, to methods for cleaning textiles or hard surfaces using CGTase of this type or corresponding agents and to the use thereof for cleaning textiles or hard surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2003Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Beatrix Kottwitz, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Roland Breves, Irmgard Schmidt, Angrit Weber, Angela Hellebrandt, Laura Polanyi-Bald
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Patent number: 6815404Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning agent, particularly for cleaning sewers, for fat and/or protein-containing sewage from the home or having a municipal or industrial origin, with a content of urea, a urea derivative, a urea salt and/or a urea derivative salt, the cleaning agent containing approximately 50 to 90 wt. % urea, urea derivative, urea salt and/or urea derivative salt, based on dry substance, and an alkaline-acting agent, protease and fat-degrading microorganisms.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2003Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: BBT Bergedorfer Biotechnik GmbHInventor: Klaus Becker
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Patent number: 6815193Abstract: Novel protease variants derived from the DNA sequences of naturally-occurring or recombinant non-human proteases are disclosed. The variant proteases, in general, are obtained by in vitro modification of a precursor DNA sequence encoding the naturally-occurring or recombinant protease to generate the substitution of a plurality of amino acid residues in the amino acid sequence of a precursor protease. Such variant proteases have properties which are different from those of the precursor protease, such as altered wash performance.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2001Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: Genencor International, Inc.Inventors: Ayrookaran J. Poulose, Volker Schellenberger, James T. Kellis, Jr., Christian Paech, Joanne Nadherny, Donald P. Naki, Katherine D. Collier, Robert M. Caldwell, André C. Baeck
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Patent number: 6799585Abstract: A process is presented for cleaning fermentation or storage tanks with an enzyme-containing formulation containing one or more laccases, peroxidases, oxireductases, transferases, isomerases, lyases, and ligases or a mixture thereof. The process provides improved cleaning results, water consumption, and waste water pollution.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2003Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Ecolab GmbH Co. oHGInventors: Marion Lengling, Harald Kluschanzoff
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Patent number: 6797010Abstract: The present invention relates to the inhibition of backstaining or redeposition during the stonewashing process by applying a lipolytic enzyme, preferably cutinase, thereby avoiding that the blue color redeposits on the fabric or garment.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2001Date of Patent: September 28, 2004Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Naoto Uyama, Kosaku Daimon
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Patent number: 6794350Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Charlotte Johansen, Signe Munk
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Patent number: 6790818Abstract: The present invention provide a composition suitable for use as a foaming hand dishwashing composition comprising a hydrophobic polymer having molecular weight of at least 500 and comprising butylene oxide moieties with the proviso that the composition does not comprise greater than 5% by weight of the composition of builder.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Patrice Mark Luc Borgonjon, Baptiste Pommiers, Mark Robert Sivik, Jean-Francois Bodet
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Patent number: 6777383Abstract: A detergent composition is described which is a solid homogeneous, evenly dispersed composition containing anionic and nonionic surfactants, soil suspending agents, chelating or sequestering agents, and alkaline builders. The detergent compositions will contain either active enzymes, an oxygen releasing bleaching agent or both. The active enzymes can be protease, amylase or lipase enzymes. Said composition can be used for laundry washing or hard surface cleaning. Manufacturing procedures and methods of use are described.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2002Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: Sunburst Chemicals, Inc.Inventor: William H. Scepanski
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Patent number: 6767879Abstract: Laundry detergent compositions containing one or more cellulases having a ration of tensile strength loss to antipilling properties of less than 1. The cellulases may be obtained from CBS 669.63 or 670.93.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2001Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Hermanus Bernardus Maria Lenting, Rudolf Franciscus Wilhelmus Cornelis Van Beckhoven, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Beatrix Kottwitz, Albrecht Weiss, Pieter Van Solingen
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Publication number: 20040138083Abstract: The present invention relates generally to substrates that exhibit useful, auto adaptable surface energy properties that depend on the environment of the substrate. Such surface energy properties provide relatively high advancing and receding contact angles for liquids when in contact with the target substrate surface. The substrates exhibit low surface energy quantities of at most about 20 millijoules per square meter (mJ/m2) at a temperature of about 25 degrees C. and a surface energy greater than about 20 mJ/m2 at, or with exposure to, a temperature of about 40 degrees C. More specifically, encompassed within the present invention are textile substrates having this highly desirable unique surface energy modification property and which exhibit wash durable oil and water repellency and stain release features. Novel compositions and formulations that impart such surface energy modifications to substrates are also encompassed within this invention, as well as methods for producing such treated substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Wiliam C. Kimbrell, Xinggao Fang
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Patent number: 6762161Abstract: The invention relates to a method for cleaning a contaminated medical instrument including the step of immersing the instrument in a solution containing an enzyme based cleaning composition including a “hospital grade disinfectant”. Compositions useful for cleaning contaminated medical instruments in accordance with the method include an enzyme, a quat biocide and an “activity protector”, which may be for example, enzyme stabilizers, enzyme stabilizing systems, micelle formation modifiers and inhibitors, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Novapharm Research (Australia) Pty LTDInventors: Alex Sava, Steven Kritzler
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Patent number: 6759228Abstract: An alkaline protease having the following properties; a gene encoding the same; a microorganism producing the same; and washing compositions containing the same; (i) acting over a broad pH value range of 4 to 13 and achieving, at pH 6 to 12, 80% or more the activity at the optimum pH value; (ii) when treated at 40° C. for 30 minutes, being stable over a pH value range of 6 to 11; (iii) having an isoelectric point of about 8.9 to 9.1; and (iv) having casein digesting activity that is not inhibited by oleic acid. The alkaline protease of the present invention is highly stable to various surface active agents and fatty acids, and exhibits high stability to oxidizing agents, and is therefore useful as an enzyme to be used in detergents for automatic dishwashers and laundry detergents, both containing bleaching components.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Mikio Takaiwa, Mitsuyoshi Okuda, Katsuhisa Saeki, Hiromi Kubota, Jun Hitomi, Yasushi Kageyama, Shitsuw Shikata, Masafumi Nomura
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Patent number: 6756350Abstract: A transparent consumer product, such as an aqueous heavy duty liquid having colorant dye, in a clear bottle, wherein the material of which said bottle is made comprises fluorescent dye to protect the colorant dye. The f-dye may, alternatively or in addition to, be present in a clear label on such bottle.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1999Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Edward John Giblin, Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Kristina Marie Neuser, Myongsuk Bae-Lee, Dennis Stephen Murphy, Daniel Joseph Kuzmenka, Barbara Helen Bory
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Patent number: 6746997Abstract: A process for the preparation of mixed ethoxylated alkyl phenol/alkyl phenol ethoxy sulfate surfactants, such surfactants, and detergent formulations incorporating the same. The mixed surfactants are more tolerant of sodium carbonate, allowing greater amounts of sodium carbonate to be used so that the amount of surfactant can be reduced resulting in overall cost savings in the resultant laundry product.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2002Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Church & Dwight Co., Inc.Inventors: Charles D. Carr, Archana Gupta
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Patent number: 6743616Abstract: The invention relates to mutant &agr;-amylases that may be produced at high yield from recombinant microorganisms.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2001Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Araki, Keiji Endo, Hiroshi Hagihara, Kazuaki Igarashi, Yasuhiro Hayashi, Katsuya Ozaki
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Publication number: 20040102349Abstract: The invention relates to a novel amylolytic enzyme extracted from the micro-organism Bacillus sp. A 7-7 (DSM 12368), to sufficiently similar proteins having an amylolytic function, to methods for the production thereof and to diverse fields of application for these proteins. In addition, they can be further developed beyond the implemented fields of application for other, above all, technical purposes. The invention particularly relates to washing and cleaning agents containing amylolytic proteins of the aforementioned type, to methods for cleaning textiles or hard surfaces that involve the use of such amylolytic proteins or analogous agents, and to their use for cleaning textiles or hard surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2003Publication date: May 27, 2004Inventors: Roland Breves, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Beatrix Kottwitz, Laura Polanyi-Bald, Angela Hellebrandt, Irmgard Schmidt, Regina Stehr, Angrit Weber
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Patent number: 6740627Abstract: Disclosed are detergent compositions comprising organic diamines, anionic surfacants and amphoteric surfactants including amine oxide for hand dishwashing which, by incorporating certain organic solvents, results in a liquid dishwashing detergent composition that is not only a more effective cleaning agent, but also offers improved physical and enzymatic stability and more convenient rheology and handling characteristics than typical liquid dishwashing compositions.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Joanna Margaret Clarke, Garry Kenneth Embleton, Howard David Hutton, Mark Leslie Kacher, John David Sadler, Deborah Pancheri Wallace
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Publication number: 20040097393Abstract: Laundry detergent compositions containing one or more cellulases having a ratio of tensile strength loss to antipilling properties of less than 1. The cellulases may be obtained from CBS 9.93 or CBS 670.93.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2001Publication date: May 20, 2004Inventors: Hermanus Bernardus Maria Lenting, Rudolf Franciscus Wilhelmus Cornelis Van Beckhoven, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Beatrix Kottwitz, Albrecht Weiss, Pieter Van Solingen
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Patent number: 6737390Abstract: Laundry detergent or cleaning product shaped bodies which comprise two or more noncompressed parts.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2001Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Matthias Sunder, Rolf Bayersdoerfer, Bernd Richter, Hans-Friedrich Kruse, Markus Semrau, Thomas Holderbaum
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Patent number: 6734155Abstract: Cleaning compositions, including laundry, dishwashing, hard surface cleaner, oral/dental cleaning compositions, comprising an oxidoreductase with an &agr;/&bgr;-hydrolase fold and a catalytic triad consisting of the amino acid residues serine, histidine and aspartic acid, which provide effective and efficient cleaning of colored and/or everyday body stains and/or soils and the sanitization of treated surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2000Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ivan Maurice Alfons Jan Herbots, Alfred Busch
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Publication number: 20040087462Abstract: Disclosed is an ionic liquid-coated enzyme, wherein the ionic liquid is an organic salt which presents as a liquid phase at a temperature of about 150° C. or below. The ionic liquid-coated enzyme according to the present invention remarkbly improves enzyme functions, such as enantioselectivity and stability, when the enzyme which may be lipase is coated with an ionic liquid. Further, even in the case of when the ionic liquid-coated enzyme is reused, the enantiomeric excess, enantioselectivity, and activity are not degenerated. The coated enzyme is usable as a catalyst for providing a chiral intermediate required in the synthesis of chiral pesticides, medicines, natural chemicals, and so on.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Inventors: Mahn-Joo Kim, Jae Kwan Lee
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Patent number: 6727085Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a subtilase variant for removal of egg stains from laundry or from hard surfaces, where the subtilase variant comprises at least one additional amino acid residue in the active site loop (b) region from position 95 to 103 (BASBPN numbering). These subtilase variants are useful exhibiting excellent or improved wash performance on egg stains when used in e.g. cleaning or detergent compositions, including automatic dishwash compositions. The present invention also relates to novel subtilase variants, to isolated DNA sequences encoding the variants, expression vectors, host cells, and methods for producing and using the variants of the invention. Further, the present invention relates to cleaning and detergent compositions comprising the variants of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2000Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Inventors: Tina Sejersgård Fanø, Frank Mikkelsen
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Patent number: 6723549Abstract: Genes encoding novel cellulases, and a gene encoding a protein that facilitates the action of such novel cellulases, the novel cellulases and a protein that facilitates the action of such cellulases, and enzyme preparations containing such proteins are described. The native hosts and the culture medium of said hosts containing said novel cellulases are also disclosed. These proteins are especially useful in the textile and detergent industry and in pulp and paper industry.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1997Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: AB Enzymes OyInventors: Arja Miettinen-Oinonen, John Londesborough, Jari Vehmaanperä, Heli Haakana, Arja Mäntylä, Raija Lanto, Minna Elovainio, Vesa Joutsjoki, Marja Paloheimo, Pirkko Suominen
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Publication number: 20040072714Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid enzyme cleaning composition in which the enzyme is stable in the presence of mixtures of carbonate and bicarbonate at alkaline pH, and methods employing this composition. The enzyme cleaning composition preferably employs weight ratios of carbonate and bicarbonate to stabilize one or more enzymes in a solid, a concentrate, and/or a use composition, and at temperatures higher than ambient.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Applicant: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: James J. Tarara, Sally K. Swart, Tareasa Lynn Bradley, Reid Rabon, Denise Chandler
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Publication number: 20040072713Abstract: An article for use in an enzymatic fabric cleaning process, said article containing one or more types of harmless micro-organisms capable of excreting enzymes useful in said fabric cleaning process. Furthermore, there is provided an enzymatic method of cleaning fabrics, whereby soiled fabrics are soaked with water in the presence of said article.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: James Robert Darwent, Sandra Hemmington, Neil James Parry