Enzyme Component Of Specific Activity Or Source (e.g., Protease, Of Bacterial Origin, Etc.) Patents (Class 510/392)
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Publication number: 20090297495Abstract: The invention provides hydrolases, polynucleotides encoding them, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention is directed to polypeptides, e.g., enzymes, having a hydrolase activity, e.g., an esterase, acylase, lipase, phospholipase (e.g., phospholipase A, B, C and D activity, patatin activity, lipid acyl hydrolase (LAH) activity) or protease activity, including thermostable and thermotolerant hydrolase activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The hydrolase activities of the polypeptides and peptides of the invention include esterase activity, lipase activity (hydrolysis of lipids), acidolysis reactions (to replace an esterified fatty acid with a free fatty acid), transesterification reactions (exchange of fatty acids between triglycerides), ester synthesis, ester interchange reactions, phospholipase activity and protease activity (hydrolysis of peptide bonds).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2006Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Janne S. Kerovuo, Ryan McCann, David Weiner, Arne I. Solbak, JR.
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Publication number: 20090291875Abstract: This invention relates to laundry detergent compositions comprising bacterial alkaline enzymes exhibiting endo-beta-1,4-glucanase activity (E.C. 3.2.1.4) and modified cellulose derivatives.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2007Publication date: November 26, 2009Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Johan Smets, Charles David Bragg
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Publication number: 20090280105Abstract: This invention relates to novel enzymes and novel methods for producing the same. More specifically this invention relates to a variety of fungal enzymes. Nucleic acid molecules encoding such enzymes, compositions, recombinant and genetically modified host cells, and methods of use are described. The invention also relates to a method to convert lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars with enzymes that degrade the lignocellulosic material and novel combinations of enzymes, including those that provide a synergistic release of sugars from plant biomass. The invention also relates to methods to use the novel enzymes and compositions of such enzymes in a variety of other processes, including washing of clothing, detergent processes, deinking and biobleaching of paper and pulp, and treatment of waste streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2007Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: DYADIC INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Alexander Vasilievich Gusakov, Peter J. Punt, Jan Comelis Verdoes, Jacoba Van der Meij, Arkady Panteleimonovich Sinitsyn, Elena Vlasenko, Sandra Wihelmina Agnes Hinz, Mark Gosink, Zhijie Jiang
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Publication number: 20090275493Abstract: A novel subtilisin-type alkaline protease from Bacillus gibsonii and to sufficiently related proteins and the derivatives thereof. Also, washing and cleaning agents comprising the novel subtilisin-type alkaline protease, sufficiently related proteins and the derivatives thereof, corresponding washing and cleaning methods and their use in washing and cleaning agents, and other possible technical uses.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Petra Siegert, Susanne Wieland, Julia Engelskirchen, Marion Merkel, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Cornelius Bessler
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Publication number: 20090270301Abstract: The present invention relates to heterogeneous cleaning compositions, methods employing them, and methods of making them.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: ECOLAB INC.Inventors: David A. Fine, Terry J. Klos, Gretchen L. King, Richard D. Stardig
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Patent number: 7601527Abstract: 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: January 19, 2005Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Allan Svendsen, Sóeren Kjaerulff, Henrik Bisgaard-Frantzen, Carsten Andersen
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Patent number: 7601529Abstract: The present invention relates to pectate lyase variants exhibiting alterations relative to a parent enzyme exhibiting pectate lyase activity as its major enzymatic activity; to a method of producing such enzymes; and to methods for using such enzymes in the textile, detergent and cellulose fiber processing industries. Compared to the parent enzyme, the pectate lyase variants of the present invention exhibit improved stability in detergents.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2003Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Sanne Schroder Glad, Carsten Andersen, Torben Vedel Borchert, Katja Salomon Johansen, Henrik Frisner, Thomas Thisted, Mads Eskelund Bjornvad
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Publication number: 20090252828Abstract: Disclosed are compositions comprising variants of alpha-amylase that have alpha-amylase activity and which exhibit altered properties relative to a parent AmyS-like alpha-amylase from which they are derived. The compositions comprise an additional enzyme such as a phytase. Also disclosed are methods of using the compositions, and kits related thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2008Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: Danisco US Inc., Genencor DivisionInventors: Luis G. Cascao-Pereira, James T. Kellis, JR., Bradley A. Paulson, Scott D. Power, Sandra W. Ramer, Vivek Sharma, Andrew Shaw, Jayarama K. Shetty, Donald E. Ward
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Publication number: 20090238922Abstract: The invention relates to a novel class of serine proteases of peptidase family S2A or S1E that are stable in the presence of copper (Cu2+) and/or inhibited by copper only to a limited extent. Structural features of potential relevance for this effect are also disclosed. This class of proteases includes proteases derived from Brachysporiella gayana, Nocardiopsis dassonvillei subsp. dassonvillei, Nocardiopsis prasina, and Nocardiopsis alba, but excludes the known proteases derived from Metarhizium anisopliae and Nocardiopsis sp. NRRL 18262. The invention also relates to DNA encoding such proteases, the expression thereof in a host cell, including animal and plant cells, as well as to the use thereof, e.g., in animal feed and in detergents. In particular, the invention relates to animal feed and animal feed additives, such as premix, incorporating these proteases together with 1-500 ppm Cu (in-feed-concentration).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2009Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Peter Rahbek Oestergaard, Leonardo De Maria
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Publication number: 20090238923Abstract: Variants of B. licheniformis alpha-amylase exhibit improved enzymatic performance, including increased themostability and reduced calcium dependence. Compositions comprising the variants are useful in methods of starch processing, starch liquefaction, fermatation, starch saccharification, cleaning, laundrying, textile desizing, baking, and biofilm removal. The nucleic acids encoding the variants are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2008Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: Danisco US Inc., Genencor DivisionInventors: Andrew SHAW, Sandra W. Ramer, Scott D. Power, Jayarama K. Shetty, Bradley A. Paulson, Vivek Sharma, Donald Ward
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Publication number: 20090217462Abstract: The present invention includes a consumer product packet comprising a capsule and a fill composition within the capsule. The capsule has a tack temperature of about 110° F. or higher and substantially dissolves in water within a predetermined time period at a temperature of about 70° F. or lower. In one example, the capsule comprises a film having at least one polymer, at least one plasticizer, and at least one temperature adjusting agent. Dependent on the fill composition, the consumer product packet may be used for any household or personal use. In one example, the fill composition is a detergent concentrate comprises one or more surfactants, one or more humectants, and a coalescing solvent which has hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) value from about 7 to about 9, wherein the ratio of the one or more humectants to the coalescing solvent is more than 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Inventors: Fred HOLZHAUER, Kaj JOHNSON, Mike RATKO
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Publication number: 20090215663Abstract: Subtilase variants having an improved wash performance on egg stains. These subtilases are useful exhibiting excellent or improved wash performance on egg stains when used in e.g. cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2007Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Stefan Minning, Jürgen Carsten Franz Knötzel, Niels Henrik Sørensen
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Patent number: 7579310Abstract: An aqueous liquid or gel type detergent composition comprising boric acid or a boron compound, a polyhydroxy compound, and a relatively high level of calcium ion to stabilize a selected ?-amylase enzyme is described.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2005Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Chandrika Kasturi, Mark Edward Wandstrat, Brian Xiaoqing Song
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Patent number: 7572759Abstract: A heterogenous cleaning composition comprises more than 75 wt % active ingredients, the active ingredients comprising at least about 20 wt % surfactant and at least about 20 wt % sequestrant, wherein the composition comprises at least one liquid and at least one powder.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: David A. Fine, Terry J. Klos, Gretchen L. King, Richard D. Stardig
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Patent number: 7569528Abstract: Detergent compositions comprising high efficiency lipase enzymes and particles comprising encapsulated perfumes. Preferred perfumes have a boiling point at 760 mm Hg, of 260° C. or lower and a calculated CLogP of at least 3.0. The encapsulated perfume particles are useful in laundry compositions in order to provide efficacious perfume delivery at all stages of the wash, particularly during the laundering stage.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2005Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Allan Campbell McRitchie, Jonathan Richard Clare, Philip Frank Souter, Javier Medina, Zaiyou Liu
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Publication number: 20090181874Abstract: This invention relates to compositions comprising certain cellobiose dehydrogenase enzymes and processes for making and using such compositions, including the use of such compositions to clean and/or treat a situs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2009Publication date: July 16, 2009Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Eva Maria Perez-Prat Vinuesa, Enrique Herrero Acero, Sina Pricelius, Georg Maximillian Guebitz
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Publication number: 20090181875Abstract: The present invention relates to novel subtilase variants exhibiting alterations relative to the parent subtilase in one or more properties including: wash performance, thermal stability, storage stability or catalytic activity. The variants of the invention are suitable for use in, e.g., cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2009Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Henriette Draborg, Peter Kamp Hansen, Mads Eskelund Bjornvad, Mads Norregaard-Madsen, Mikael Mikkelsen
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Publication number: 20090176684Abstract: Detergent compositions containing catechols, such as tiron (1,2-dihydroxybenzene-3,5-disulfonic acid), which do not have or do not develop the reddish color associated with the catechol/ferric iron chelate are disclosed. Methods for reducing the intensity of red color in a tiron containing detergent composition are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2008Publication date: July 9, 2009Inventors: Robb Richard Gardner, Allison Lynn Gerdes, Jeffrey Anderson Seeley
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Publication number: 20090170747Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for improving the properties of a cellulolytic enzyme by amino acid substitution, deletion or insertion, the method comprising the steps of: a. constructing a multiple alignment of at least two amino acid sequences known to have three-dimensional structures similar to endoglucanase V (EGV) from Humicola insolens known from Protein Data Bank entry 4ENG; b. constructing a homology-built three-dimensional structure of the cellulolytic enzyme based on the structure of the EGV; c. identifying amino acid residue positions present in a distance from the substrate binding cleft of not more than 5 ?; d. identifying surface-exposed amino acid residues of the enzyme; e. identifying all charged or potentially charged amino acid residue positions of the enzyme; f. choosing one or more positions wherein the amino acid residue is to be substituted, deleted or where an insertion is to be provided; and g.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Kim Vilbour Andersen, Martin Schulein, Torben Henriksen, Lars Christensen, Bo Damgaard, Claus Von der Osten
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Publication number: 20090170745Abstract: A novel subtilisin-type alkaline protease from Bacillus pumilus and sufficiently related proteins and derivatives thereof. Also washing and cleaning agents comprising the novel subtilisin-type alkaline protease, sufficiently related proteins and derivatives thereof, corresponding washing and cleaning methods, and washing and cleaning agents and other possible technical uses.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Marion Merkel, Petra Siegert, Susanne Wieland, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Cornelius Bessler
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Publication number: 20090163400Abstract: The present invention relates to enzymes produced by mutating the genes for a number of subtilases and expressing the mutated genes in suitable hosts are presented. The enzymes exhibit improved stability and/or improved wash performance in any detergent in comparison to their wild type parent enzymes. The enzymes are well-suited for use in any detergent and for some in especially liquid or solid shaped detergent compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Laurens Nicolaas Sierkstra, Jan Klugkist, Peter Markvardsen, Claus Von der Osten, Peter Bauditz
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Publication number: 20090163397Abstract: Disclosed are a number of homologs and variants of Hypocrea jecorina Cel7A (formerly Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase I or CBH1), nucleic acids encoding the same and methods for producing the same. The homologs and variant cellulases have the amino acid sequence of a glycosyl hydrolase of family 7A wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted and/or deleted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: FRITS GOEDEGEBUUR, PETER GUALFETTI, COLIN MITCHINSON, PAULIEN NEEFE
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Patent number: 7550420Abstract: A process is provided to produce a concentrated aqueous peracid solution in situ using at least one enzyme having perhydrolase activity in the presence of hydrogen peroxide (at a concentration of at least 500 mM) under neutral to acidic reaction conditions from suitable carboxylic acid esters (including glycerides) and/or amides substrates. The concentrated peracid solution produced is sufficient for use in a variety of disinfection and/or bleaching applications.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2006Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: E. I. DuPont De Nemours and CompanyInventors: Robert DiCosimo, Mark Scott Payne, Eugenia Costa Hann, Vincent Brian Croud, John Edward Gavagan, Lorraine Winona Wagner
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Publication number: 20090149365Abstract: The present invention relates to novel subtilases from wild-type strains of Bacillus, especially the Bacillus strains ZI344, EP655, P203, EP63, ZI120, ZI130, ZI1342 and ZI140, and to methods of construction and production of these proteases. Further, the present invention relates to use of the claimed subtilases in detergents, such as a laundry detergent or an automatic dishwashing detergent.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2009Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Preben Nielsen, Martin Borchert
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Publication number: 20090142326Abstract: A thermostable glycosidase enzymes derived from various Thermococcus, Staphylothermus and Pyrococcus organisms is disclosed. The enzymes are produced from native or recombinant host cells and can be utilized in the food processing industry, pharmaceutical industry and in the textile industry, detergent industry and in the baking industry.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2007Publication date: June 4, 2009Inventors: Edward J. Bylina, Ronald Swanson, Eric Mathur, David E. Lam
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Publication number: 20090142281Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a coupled enzyme system for the rapid and efficient production of hydrogen peroxide by the coupling of a first enzyme system capable of hydrogen peroxide generation, to a second enzyme system which utilizes the non hydrogen peroxide product of the first enzyme system, and optionally is capable of generating further hydrogen peroxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Inventors: Thomas Rand, Susan Mampusti Madrid
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Publication number: 20090105111Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making a solid cleaning composition. The method can include pressing and/or vibrating flowable waxy particles of a waxy cleaning composition. For a waxy cleaning composition, pressing and/or vibrating flowable waxy particles determines the shape and density of the solid but is not required for forming a solid. The method can employ a concrete block machine for pressing and/or vibrating. The present invention also relates to a solid cleaning composition made by the method and to solid cleaning compositions including particles bound together by a binding agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: ECOLAB INC.Inventors: Roger L. Stolte, Michael P. Dziuk, Melissa C. Meinke, Matthew C. Porter
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Publication number: 20090105109Abstract: This invention relates to detergent compositions comprising bacterial alkaline enzymes exhibiting endo-beta-1,4-glucanase activity (E.C. 3.2.1.4) and an ethoxylated polymer selected from the group consisting of polyethylene glycol/vinyl acetate graft copolymer; a ethoxylated (and optionally propoxylated) polyethyleneimine; a zwitterionic and ethoxylated polyamidoamine; ethoxylated (and optionally propoxylated) comb polycarboxylate; and mixtures thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2007Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventors: Neil Joseph Lant, Steven George Patterson
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Publication number: 20090104681Abstract: The present invention relates to a polypeptide having alpha-amylase activity obtained from a strain of Aspergillus niger.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2006Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventors: Benjamin S. Bower, Nigel Dunn-Coleman, Suzanne E. Lantz, Cherry Lin, Michael Ward
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Publication number: 20090099056Abstract: The present invention relates to enzymes produced by mutating the genes for a number of subtilases and expressing the mutated genes in suitable hosts are presented. The enzymes exhibit improved wash performance in any detergent in comparison to their wild type parent enzymes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Peter Kamp Hansen, Peter Bauditz, Frank Mikkelsen, Kim Vilbour Andersen
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Publication number: 20090099079Abstract: This invention relates to novel enzymes and novel methods for producing the same. More specifically this invention relates to a variety of fungal enzymes. Nucleic acid molecules encoding such enzymes, compositions, recombinant and genetically modified host cells, and methods of use are described. The invention also relates to a method to convert lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars with enzymes that degrade the lignocellulosic material and novel combinations of enzymes, including those that provide a synergistic release of sugars from plant biomass. The invention also relates to a method to release cellular content by degradation of cell walls. The invention also relates to methods to use the novel enzymes and compositions of such enzymes in a variety of other processes, including washing of clothing, detergent processes, biorefining, deinking and biobleaching of paper and pulp, and treatment of waste streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Mark A. Emalfarb, Alexander Vasilievich Gusakov, Peter J. Punt, Jan Cornelis Verdoes, Arkady Panteleimonovich Sinitsyn, Elena Vlasenko, Sandra Wihelmina Agnes Hinz, Mark Gosink, Zhijie Jiang, Jacoba Van der Meij
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Publication number: 20090092707Abstract: Isolated polypeptides are disclosed selected from the group consisting of: (a) polypeptides comprising an amino acid sequence which has at least 90% identity with a sequence of a mature polypeptide comprised in the group of SEQ ID NO: 26 to SEQ ID NO:50; (b) polypeptides which are encoded a nucleotide sequence which hybridize under high stringency conditions with a polynucleotide probe selected from the group consisting of (i) the complementary strand to a nucleotide sequence selected from the group of regions of SEQ ID NO: 1 to SEQ ID NO: 25 encoding a mature polypeptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Reinhard Wilting, Soren Flensted Lassen, Peter Rahbek Ostergaard
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Publication number: 20090078384Abstract: The invention provides polypeptides coding for new esterases from rumen. The invention also relates to functional fragments or functional derivatives thereof as well as to nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides of the invention, vectors and host cells containing said nucleic acids, a method for producing the polypeptides and the use of the polypeptides according to the present invention for various industrial purposes and medical treatments. The invention also relate to the conversion of said esterases into lipases.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2005Publication date: March 26, 2009Inventors: Manuel Ferrer, Peter Golyshin, Olga Golyshina, Tatyana Chernikova, Carsten Strompl, Kenneth Timmis, Kieran Elborough, Graeme Jarvis
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Publication number: 20090082246Abstract: The present invention relates to variants (mutants) of polypeptides, in particular Termamyl-like alpha-amylases, which variant has alpha-amylase activity and exhibits an alteration in at least one of the following properties relative to said parent alpha-amylase: substrate specificity, substrate binding, substrate cleavage pattern, thermal stability, pH/activity profile, pH/stability profile, stability towards oxidation, Ca2+ dependency, specific activity, and solubility, in particular under production conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Carsten Andersen, Torben Vedel Borchert, Bjarne Ronfeldt Nielsen
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Patent number: 7507569Abstract: Novel subtilases having an improved wash performance on egg stains are disclosed. These subtilases are useful exhibiting excellent or improved wash performance on egg stains when used in e.g. cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2004Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignees: Novozymes A/S, Maxygen Inc.Inventors: Stefan Minning, Jurgen Carsten Franz Knotzel, Niels Henrik Sorensen, Jon E. Ness, Mark D. Welch, Lorraine J. Giver, Joel Cherry, Torben Vedel Borchert, Jeremy Minshull
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Patent number: 7504120Abstract: The invention relates to xylanases and to polynucleotides encoding the xylanases. In addition, methods of designing new xylanases and methods of use thereof are also provided. The xylanases have increased activity and stability at increased pH and temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2003Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Verenium CorporationInventors: Brian Steer, Walter Callen, Shaun Healey, Geoff Hazlewood, Di Wu, David Blum, Alireza Esteghlalian
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Patent number: 7501272Abstract: The present invention relates to novel variant EGIII or EGIII-like cellulases that have improved stability. The variant cellulases have performance sensitive residues replaced to a residue having modified stability.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2003Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Danisco US Inc., Genencor DivisionInventors: Peter Gualfetti, Colin Mitchinson, Jay Phillips
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Publication number: 20090060933Abstract: The present invention provides novel protein variants that exhibit reduced immunogenic responses, as compared to the parental proteins. The present invention further provides DNA molecules that encode novel variants, host cells comprising DNA encoding novel variants, as well as methods for making proteins less allergenic. In addition, the present invention provides various compositions that comprise these proteins that are less immunogenic than the wild-type proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: David A. Estell, Fiona A. Harding
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Patent number: 7498158Abstract: The present invention relates to variants (mutants) of parent Termamyl-like alpha-amylases, which variant has alpha-amylase activity and exhibits altered properties relative to the parent alpha-amylase.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2002Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Allan Svendsen, Carsten Andersen, Thomas Thisted, Claus Von Der Osten
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Publication number: 20090053191Abstract: The invention provides novel polypeptides having phospholipase activity, including, e.g., phospholipase A, B, C and D activity, patatin activity, lipid acyl hydrolase (LAH) activity, nucleic acids encoding them and antibodies that bind to them. Industrial methods, e.g., oil degumming, and products comprising use of these phospholipases are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2007Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: Verenium CorporationInventors: Svetlana GRAMATIKOVA, Geoff Hazlewood, David Lam, Nelson R. Barton, Blake G. Sturgis, Dan E. Robertson, Jincai Li, Joel A. Kreps, Roderick James Fielding, Robert C. Brown, Amit Vasavada, Xuqiu Tan, Adrian Badillo, Wilhelmus P. Van Hoek, Giselle Janssen, Charles Isaac, Mark J. Burk
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Patent number: 7494685Abstract: The present invention is related to glucoamylases having at least 80% sequence identity to a Trichoderma glucoamylase having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 and biologically functional fragments thereof. The invention is also related to DNA sequences coding for the glucoamylases, vectors and host cells incorporating the DNA sequences, enzyme compositions and methods of using the glucoamylases in various applications.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2006Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Genencor International, Inc.Inventors: Nigel Dunn-Coleman, Paulien Neefe-Kruithof, Craig E. Pilgrim, Piet Van Solingen, Donald E. Ward
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Publication number: 20090047387Abstract: The invention relates to a novel 3D structure encoding a Nocardiopsis protease, as well as to variants of parent protease homologous to Nocardiopsis proteases, preferably of improved thermostability and/or with an amended temperature activity profile. The invention also relates to DNA sequences encoding such variants, their production in a recombinant host cell, as well as methods of using the variants, in particular within the field of animal feed and detergents. The invention furthermore relates to methods of generating and preparing protease variants of amended properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2004Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Leonardo De Maria, Carsten Andersen, Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen, Soren Flensted Lassen, Peter Rahbek Ostergaard
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Publication number: 20090048136Abstract: The present invention provides cleaning compositions comprising at least one carrageenase enzyme, methods for producing carrageenase enzymes in host cells, host cells comprising recombinant polynucleotides encoding at least one carrageenase, and recombinant polynucleotides encoding carrageenase.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2007Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Hugh C. McDonald, Brian Schmidt
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Patent number: 7491362Abstract: The liquid composition is based on surfactants and enzymes, and is particularly useful for manual cleaning of instruments. In manual and ultrasonic application the composition in use concentration shows low foaming and gives a cleaning solution which is not cloudy at least at a temperature in the range from 16° C. to 40° C. In addition, the composition has good cleaning efficiacy over a broad temperature range (20 to 55° C.) and shows good material compatibility.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2008Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Laurence Geret, Carola Stingl, Silke Denzin
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Publication number: 20090038023Abstract: This invention provides polypeptides having lyase activity, polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention is directed to polypeptides having ammonia lyase activity, e.g., phenylalanine ammonia lyase, tyrosine ammonia lyase and/or histidine ammonia lyase activity, including thermostable and thermotolerant activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The polypeptides of the invention can be used in a variety of pharmaceutical, agricultural and industrial contexts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2006Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: Verenium CorporationInventors: David P. Weiner, Alexander Varvak, Toby Richardson, Mircea Podar, Ellen Burke, Shaun Healey
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Publication number: 20090017162Abstract: The present invention relates to the cloning and high level expression of novel cellulase proteins or derivatives thereof in the in a host cell. Further aspects of the present invention relate to transformants that express the novel cellulases, and expression vectors comprising the DNA gene fragments or variants thereof that code for the novel cellulases derived from Actinomycete using genetic engineering techniques. The present invention is also directed to novel cellulase compositions and methods of use therefore in industrial processes. In particular, the present invention is related to treating textiles with a novel cellulase derived from Actinomycete spp. The present invention also relates to the use of cellulase derived from Actinomycete spp. to enhance the digestibility of animal feed, in detergents, in the treatment of pulp and paper and in the production of starch and treatment of by-products thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2007Publication date: January 15, 2009Inventors: Huaming Wang, Kai Bao
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Publication number: 20080317731Abstract: The invention provides novel polypeptides having phospholipase activity, including, e.g., phospholipase A, B, C and D activity, patatin activity, phosphatidic acid phosphatases (PAP)) and/or lipid acyl hydrolase (LAH) activity, nucleic acids encoding them and antibodies that bind to them. Industrial methods, e.g., oil degumming, and products comprising use of these phospholipases are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2005Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: Diversa CorporationInventors: Svetlana Gramatikova, Geoff Hazlewood, David Lam, Nelson R. Barton, Blake G. Sturgis, Dan E. Robertson, Jincai Li, Joel A. Kreps, Roderick Fielding, Robert C. Brown, Amit Vasavada, Xuqiu Tan, Andrian Badillo, Wilhelmus P. Van Hoek, Giselle Janssen, Charles Isaac, Mark J. Burk
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Publication number: 20080293611Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for producing a polyol oxidase in micoroorganisms, and the use of polyol oxidases in cleaning compositions. The invention includes cleaning compositions that contain combinations of two or more POx oxidases, and cleaning compositions that contain combinations of two or more POx oxidases and a perhydrolase. In particular, the invention provides methods for expressing polyol oxidases in bacterial hosts for use in detergent applications for cleaning, bleaching and disinfecting.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Manoj Kumar, Susan M. Madrid, Hugh C. McDonald, Ayrookaran J. Poulose, Thomas Rand, Huaming Wang
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Publication number: 20080293610Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions comprising at least one neutral metalloprotease enzyme that has improved storage stability. In some embodiments, the neutral metalloprotease finds use in cleaning and other applications. In some particularly preferred embodiments, the present invention provides methods and compositions comprising neutral metalloprotease(s) obtained from Bacillus sp. In some more particularly preferred embodiments, the neutral metalloprotease is obtained from B. amyloliquefaciens. In still further preferred embodiments, the neutral metalloprotease is a variant of the B. amyloliquefaciens neutral metalloprotease. In yet additional embodiments, the neutral metalloprotease is a homolog of the B. amyloliquefaciens neutral metalloprotease. The present invention finds particular use in applications including, but not limited to cleaning, bleaching and disinfecting.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2006Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Andrew Shaw, Louise Wallace, David A. Estell, Ronaldus W.J. Hommes, Sang-Kyu Lee, Hiroshi Oh, Eugene S. Sadlowski
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Publication number: 20080289067Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity 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 for producing and using the polypeptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2006Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.Inventors: Paul Harris, Alfredo Lopez de Leon, Michael Rey, Hanshu Ding, Elena Vlasenko