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US 10,308,967 B2Granted
Milling process
AssigneeNovozymes A/S
InventorsZhen Long, Wanghui Xu, Wang Han, Scott R. McLaughlin, Randall Deinhammer, Paria Saunders, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Xinyu Shen, Michael John Akerman, Tom Gibbons
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Abstract
Provided are processes for treating crop kernels which comprising the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of a polypeptide having protease activity.
Claims16
A process for treating crop kernels, comprising the steps of:
- a) soaking kernels to produce soaked kernels;
- b) grinding the soaked kernels;
- c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of a polypeptide having protease activity,
- wherein step c) is performed before, simultaneously with or after step b),
- and said polypeptide is selected from the group consisting of:
- (a) a polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:
- 5, SEQ ID NO:
- 6, or the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:
- 2 or SEQ ID NO:
- 4;
- and
- (b) a polypeptide encoded by a polynucleotide having at least 90% sequence identity to the mature polypeptide coding sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 or SEQ ID NO:
- 3.
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