Enzymes for starch processing
AssigneesNovozyms A/S, Novozymes North America, Inc.
InventorsHiroaki Udagawa, Rikako Taira, Shinobu Takagi, Carsten Hjort, Anders Vikso-Nielsen, Eric Allain, Shiro Fukuyama, Tomoko Matsui
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a hybrid enzyme comprising carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and a fungal alpha-amylase amino acid sequence and to a variant of a fungal wild type enzyme comprising a carbohydrate-binding module and an alpha-amylase catalytic module. The invention also relates to the use of the hybrid enzyme or the variant in starch liquefaction.
Claims7
An isolated hybrid alpha-amylase which comprises an amino acid sequence of a catalytic module and an amino acid sequence of a carbohydrate binding module, wherein
- (a) the catalytic module comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:8;
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- (b) the carbohydrate binding module is an amino acid sequence having at least 90% homology to an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:25.
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