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US 7,910,541 B2Granted
Enzyme treatment of foodstuffs for celiac sprue
AssigneeThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
InventorsFelix Hausch, Gary Gray, Lu Shan, Chaitan Khosla
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Abstract
Administering an effective dose of glutenase to a Celiac or dermatitis herpetiformis patient reduces levels of toxic gluten oligopeptides, thereby attenuating or eliminating the damaging effects of gluten.
Claims19
A method for treating a foodstuff to degrade gluten, said method comprising:
- contacting said foodstuff in vitro with a glutenase in an amount effective to cleave a gluten oligopeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:12 into fragments shorter than 8 amino acids.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.