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US 2018/0019412 A1Published application
Compositions Comprising A Polypeptide Having Cellulolytic Enhancing Activity And A Quinone Compound And Uses Thereof
AssigneeNovozymes, Inc.
InventorsJason Quinlan, Feng Xu, Matthew Sweeney
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Abstract
The present invention relates to compositions comprising: a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a quinone compound. The present invention also relates to methods of using the compositions.
Claims19
1-15. (canceled)
An enzyme composition comprising:
- (a) a GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and (b) a quinone compound, wherein the combination of the GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and the quinone compound enhances hydrolysis of a cellulosic material by the enzyme composition compared to the GH61 polypeptide alone or the quinone compound alone according to the following formula with a ratio greater than 1:
- GH
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- 61
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- effect
- =
- %
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- conversion
- (
- +
- GH
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- 61
- +
- quinone
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- compound
- )
- %
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- conversion
- (
- no
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- GH
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- 61
- +
- quinone
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- compound
- )
- ;
- (b) fermenting the saccharified cellulosic material with one or more fermenting microorganisms to produce the fermentation product;
- and
- (c) recovering the fermentation product from the fermentation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.