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US 8,476,052 B2Granted
Enzyme for the production of long chain peracid
AssigneeDanisco US Inc.
InventorsNeelam S. Amin, Richard R. Bott, Marguerite A. Cervin, Ayrookaran J. Poulose, Walter Weyler
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Abstract
The present invention provides methods and compositions comprising at least one perhydrolase enzyme for cleaning and other applications. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods and compositions for generation of long chain peracids. Certain embodiments of the present invention find particular use in applications involving cleaning, bleaching and disinfecting.
Claims2
A recombinant nucleic acid encoding a perhydrolase enzyme comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 90% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid of SEQ ID NO:
- 2, and further comprising a substitution at position 204 or substitutions at positions 12 and 22, 12 and 154, 12 and 194, 154 and 194, or 154 and 196, wherein the amino acid positions are equivalent to those in SEQ ID NO:
- 2, and wherein said enzyme perhydrolyzes long chain acyl ester substrates of at least six carbon atoms.
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