Genencor International, Inc.

Danisco US Inc.

Deborah S Winetzky

Christopher James Murray

Giselle G Janssen

Scott Douglas Power

Frits Goedegebuur

Herbert Benson Scher

Anthony G Day

Kathleen A Clarkson

Huaming Wang

Nathaniel T Becker

Thomas P Graycar

Elizabeth Ann Bodie

Anita Van Kimmenade

Sang-Kyu Lee

Toby M Baldwin

Christopher Schuler

Christopher S Penet

Mee-Young Yoon

Barbara A Swanson

William S Borneman

Franciscus J C Van Gastel

Doreen Victoria

Aehle Wolfgang

Herbert B Scher

Sebhat Gebrechristos

Robert Daniel Little

Jessica Spears

Caroline Helen Best

Christopher J Murray

A selective targeting method is disclosed which comprises contacting a peptide library with an anti-target to allow the peptides to bind; separating non-binding peptides from the anti-target bound peptides, contacting the non-binding anti-target peptides with a target allowing the unbound peptides to bind with the target to form a target-bound peptide complex; separating the target-bound peptide complex from peptides which do not bind to the target, and identifying the target-bound peptides. In one embodiment the target is skin or hair. In another embodiment the anti-target is hair when the target is skin, and the anti-target is skin when the target is hair.

Methods for selective targeting

The invention is directed to peptides. Specifically, the invention is directed to peptides which bind skin and do not bind hair. Alternatively, the invention is drawn to peptides which bind hair and do not bind skin.

Skin or hair binding peptides

The present invention relates to compositions comprising high molecular weight polymers, particularly polyethylene oxide polymers, wherein the high molecular weight polymer serves as an anti-misting agent to reduce the potential of aerosol generation from a composition when used in a desired environment. The invention further relates to methods of decreasing enzyme exposure from a personal care or cleaning product comprising a high molecular weight polymer.

Reduced aerosol generating formulations

The present application relates to peptides which bind to a target stain, phenol oxidizing enzyme-binding peptide complexes wherein the binding peptide is attached to the C-terminus of the phenol oxidizing enzyme or is inserted or substituted into the phenol oxidizing enzyme. In a preferred embodiment the phenol oxidizing enzyme is a laccase specificallyoxidase B and variants thereof. The invention provides expression vectors comprising the phenol oxidizing enzyme-binding peptide complex as well as host cells comprising the vectors.

Nucleic acids and expression vectors comprising carotenoid binding peptides

A method is provided for bleaching a non-cotton cellulosic fiber, yarn or fabric by contacting said fiber, yarn or fabric with a hemicellulase enzyme for a time and under conditions suitable to produce a whitening of said fiber, yarn or fabric.

Enzymatic bleaching of natural non-cotton cellulosic fibers

A novel textile treatment composition is provided which comprises a builder which does not comprise a significant portion of zeolite. A novel detergent is provided which comprises the following ingredients: (a) 3-25% of water by weight; (b) 20-50% of an alcohol ethoxylate by weight; (c) 5-30% of soda ash by weight; (d) 20-50% of a phosphate type builder by weight; and (e) an alkaline cellulase. The detergent provides optimum conditions for the activity of the alkaline cellulase on the fabrics in the laundry.

Cellulase detergent matrix

A method for treating cellulosic materials is disclosed which comprises contacting the cellulosic material with a cellulase obtainable from corresponding to E5 or a derivative thereof. Particularly preferred methods comprise stonewashing and detergent cleaning of cotton fabrics, the production of paper products, as an additive to animal feed and in the production of food, starch, ethanol and sugar.

Cellulase for use in industrial processes

The present invention provides novel phenol oxidizing enzymes naturally-produced by strains of the species,which possess a pH optima in the alkaline range and which are useful in modifying the color associated with dyes and colored compounds at alkaline pH.

Pleurotus phenol oxidizing enzymes

A mutant cellulase obtainable from Thermomonospora spp is provided which differs from a precursor cellulase in that it has been genetically engineered to introduce a substitution, deletion or addition of an amino acid residue to said precursor cellulase which provided improved activity in a detergent. Preferably, the substitution is at a residue corresponding to T140 in Thermomonospora fusca.

Mutant Thermonospora spp. cellulase

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Foster City, CA, United States of America

Deborah S Winetzky