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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8148127 | Polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding said polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for p... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143047 | Polypeptides of botryosphaeria rhodina The invention relates to functional polypeptides secreted from Botryospaeria rhodina CBS 274.96. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8124396 | Asparaginases and method of preparing a heat-treated product The formation of acrylamide during heat treatment in the production of a food product is reduced by treating the raw material with an enzyme before the heat treatment. The enzyme is capable of reacting on asparagine or glutamine (optionally substituted) as a substra... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124395 | Alpha-amylase variants The invention relates to a variant of a parent Termamyl-like alpha-amylase, which variant exhibits altered properties, in particular reduced capability of cleaving a substrate close to the branching point, and improved substrate specificity and/or improved specific ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8119386 | Proteases and variants thereof The present invention relates to isolated proteases of the RP-II type and variants of RP-II proteases exhibiting improved properties in comparison to the parent RP-II protease, DNA constructs and vectors coding for the expression of said proteases and variants, host... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119384 | Process for producing a starch hydrolyzate The present invention relates to processes for producing a starch hydrolyzate and optionally a fermentation product, such as ethanol. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8105801 | Starch process The present invention relates to a process for enzymatic hydrolysis of granular starch into a soluble starch hydrolysate at a temperature below the initial gelatinization temperature of said granular starch. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101392 | Glucoamylase variants The invention relates to a variant of a parent fungal glucoamylase, which exhibits improved thermal stability and/or increased specific activity using saccharide substrates. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101391 | Polypeptides having phytase activity and polynucleotides encoding same 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 ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101376 | Swatch for testing the washing performance of an enzyme The present invention relates to a swatch comprising a pH-indicator substance and a substrate for an enzyme for testing the washing performance of the enzyme, e.g. an enzyme for use in detergent compositions. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8092810 | Use of polypeptides having antimicrobial activity The present invention relates to the use of polypeptides related to a Bacillus licheniformis polypeptide (amino acids 1-85 of SEQ ID NO: 2) as antimicrobial agents, for example in pharmaceutical applications, including veterinary applications, as well as for ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8080398 | Polypeptides having alpha-glucuronidase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having alpha-glucuronidase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well a... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8080390 | Antimicrobial polypeptides The present invention relates to polypeptides having antimicrobial activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic aci... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8076115 | Polypeptides having phytase activity and polynucleotides encoding same 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. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076112 | Fermentation processes The present invention provides a fermentation process for producing a fermentation product from starch-containing material wherein one or more antibacterial agents are added before and/or during fermentation. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076109 | Processes for producing a fermentation product The present invention relates to processes for producing a fermentation product, such as ethanol, from milled starch-containing material comprising (a) saccharifying the milled starch-containing material with a glucoamylase having an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8071757 | Aryl/alkyl vinyl sulfone hyaluronic acid derivatives A hyaluronic acid derivative, and methods of producing and using said derivative, the derivative comprising n repeating units and having the general structural formula (I), wherein, in at least one repeating unit, one or more of R1, R2, R3, R4 comprises an etherboun... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8071351 | Family 44 xyloglucanases The present invention relates to xyloglucanases belonging to family 44 of glycosyl hydrolases and having a relative xyloglucanase activity of at least 30% between pH 5 and pH 8 are derived from the genus Paenibacillus, especially from a strain of Paenibaci... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8039241 | Thermostable alpha-amylases The present invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide comprising an open reading frame encoding a polypeptide having alpha-amylase activity, the polypeptide selected from the group consisting of: a) a polypeptide comprising a... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8021863 | Polypeptides with starch debranching activity Polypeptides comprising a catalytic starch debranching domain and a starch binding domain are disclosed. The polypeptides comprising the starch binding domain have an improved functionality in raw starch degradation compared with same catalytic unit in same amount b... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8017372 | Cellulase variants 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 sequen... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7998709 | Process of producing a starch hydrolysate The present invention relates to a process for enzymatic hydrolysis of granular starch into a soluble starch hydrolysate at a temperature below the initial gelatinization temperature of said granular starch. ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7993898 | Cellulase variants 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 sequen... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7993897 | α-amylase mutants The present invention relates to a method of constructing a variant of a parent Termamyl-like α-amylase, which variant has α-amylase activity and at least one altered property as compared to the parent α-amylase, comprises i) an... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7993890 | Hydrolysis of arabinoxylan The present invention relates to a process for enzymatic hydrolysis of arabinoxylan, and an enzyme composition suitable for use in such a process. ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7993678 | Hyaluronic acid derivatives The present invention relates to the modification of hyaluronic acid (HA) with aryl/alkyl succinic anhydrides (ASA) to produce aryl/alkyl succinic anhydride HA derivatives, to the derivatives as such, and to their applications and uses, particularly in the cosmetic ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7960161 | Alpha-amylase mutants The invention relates to a variant of a parent Termamyl-like alpha-amylase, which variant has alpha-amylase activity and exhibits an alteration in at least one of the following properties relative to the parent alpha-amylase: substrate specificity, substrate binding... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956180 | Dried and agglomerated hyaluronic acid product The present invention relates to products comprising hyaluronic acid or a salt thereof, which product is dried and agglomerated as defined herein, various compositions and articles comprising the product or compositions of the invention, methods of producing the pro... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7943336 | Cutinase for detoxification of feed products The present invention relates to a method comprising treatment with cutinase for detoxification of feed products contaminated by the mycotoxin zearalenone. ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7935501 | Recombinant production of antimicrobial peptides The invention relates to the use of co-expression of an antimicrobial agent and an enzyme, with a view to improving yield and/or overall production economy. Examples of antimicrobial agents are antimicrobial peptides such as lactoferricins and antimicrobial enzymes ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7927857 | Glucoamylase variants The invention relates to a variant of a parent fungal glucoamylase, which exhibits altered properties, in particular improved thermal stability and/or increased specific activity. ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7923232 | Hafnia phytase 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 append... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7919281 | Glucoamylase variants The invention relates to a variant of a parent fungal glucoamylase, which exhibits improved thermal stability and/or increased specific activity using saccharide substrates. ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7906310 | Proteases 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 ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7906306 | Pullulanase variants and methods for preparing such variants with predetermined properties The present invention relates to pullulanase variants, wherein the variants have improved properties, for example, altered pH optimum, improved thermostability, altered substrate specificity, increased specific activity or altered cleavage pattern. ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7883883 | Enzymes for starch processing The present invention relates to a hybrid enzyme comprising carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and a fungal alpha-amylase amino acid sequence and to a variant of a fungal wild type enzyme comprising a carbohydrate-binding module and an alpha-amylase cat... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7867746 | Alpha-amylase variants The invention relates to a variant of a parent Termamyl-like alpha-amylase, which variant exhibits altered properties, in particular reduced capability of cleaving a substrate close to the branching point, and improved substrate specificity and/or improved specific ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7867743 | Polypeptides having phytase activity and polynucleotides encoding same 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 ph... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7833768 | Polypeptides having phytase activity 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. ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7820419 | Fermentation product production processes The present invention relates to a process for producing a fermentation product from starch-containing material, comprising liquefying said starch-containing material with an alpha-amylase; treating with a protease; saccharifying in the presence of a carbohydrate-so... | 10/26/2010 |
