Oral care composition comprising a fructanase
AssigneeNovozymes A/S
InventorsDorotea Raventos Segura, Lorena González Palmén, Jesper Salomon, Marc Dominique Morant, Mette Rose Joergensen, Thomas Thomasen Durhuus, Manish Kumar Tiwari
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an oral care composition comprising a fructanase, use of said composition as medicaments, use of said composition in treatment of oral disease, methods of treatment comprising administering said composition to a human or animal subject, methods of removing biofilm comprising contacting the biofilm with said composition, kits of parts comprising said composition, and fructanases.
Claims18
An oral care composition comprising (a) a fructanase comprising the motif WMND (SEQ ID NO:
- 12);
- and (b) at least one oral care ingredient;
- wherein the fructanase has at least two enzymatic activities selected from the group consisting of fructan-degrading activity, levan-degrading activity, inulin-degrading activity, and sucrose-degrading activity;
- wherein the fructanase has a sequence identity of at least 95% to SEQ ID NO:
- 2;
- and
- wherein the composition is in the form of a toothpaste, dental cream, mouthwash, mouth rinse, lozenge, pastille, chewing gum, confectionary, candy, denture cleaning solution, denture cleaning tablet, or denture cleaning powder.
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