Processes and organisms for the production of anti-freeze proteins
AssigneeGood Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, Division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsMark John Berry, Allen Griffiths, Philip John Hill, Johanna Laybourne-Parry, Sarah Victoria Mills
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for preparing an anti-freeze peptide and to the peptides obtained from bacteria from an aqueous low-temperature environment, such as Marinomonas protea and a Pseudomonas species. These anti-freeze peptides can suitably be incorporated in frozen food products such as frozen vegetables and frozen confectionery such as ice-cream.
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An isolated protein having anti-freeze activity and having an N-terminal amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:
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An isolated protein having anti-freeze activity which protein is isolated from a pure bacterial culture of Marinomonas species that generate anti-freeze proteins, said Marinomonas species comprising a 16S rRNA gene having at least 95% identity with the corresponding sequence from the organism Marinomonas protea deposited under Accession No. NCIMB 41006.
An isolated protein having anti-freeze activity which protein is isolated from a pure bacterial culture of Pseudomonas species deposited under Accession No. NCIMB 41076.
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