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US 6,329,185 B1Granted
Enzyme with galactanase activity
AssigneeNovozymes A/S
InventorsLene Venke Kofod, Markus Sakari Kauppinen, Lene Nonboe Andersen, Ib Groth Clausen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an enzyme with galactanase activity, a DNA construct encoding the enzyme, a method of producing the enzyme, an enzyme composition comprising the enzyme, and the use of the enzyme and enzyme composition for a number of industrial applications.
Claims19
An isolated enzyme exhibiting galactanase activity selected from the group consisting of:
- (a) a polypeptide encoded by the DNA sequence present in plasmid pYES 2.0 present in Escherichia coli DSM 10355;
- (b) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence of amino acid residues 19-342 of SEQ ID NO 2;
- (c) a polypeptide which has an amino acid sequence that is at least 70% homologous with one or both of polypeptides (a) and (b);
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- (d) a fragment of (a) or (b) which exhibits galactanase activity.
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The enzyme of claims, which is obtained from Escherichia coli DSM No. 10355.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.