Miles Inc.

Miles Laboratories, Inc.

Solvay Enzymes, Inc.

Sethuraman Subramanian

John W Shultz

George Boguslawski

Josephine Grosch

Proteases are susceptible to autolytic degradation. The method of the invention provides a method to identify susceptible autolysis sites which are cleaved to produce a few discrete fragments. Once identified, amino acid(s) at or in the vicinity of the cleavage site may be chemically modified or the DNA sequence capable of encoding the amino acid present at the site may be changed or deleted by site directed mutagenesis to produce an autolysis stable protease. The invention is particularly applicable to alkaline proteases which are produced in large quantities and used as detergent additives. Stable alkaline proteases could then be used in liquid detergent formulations.

Proteases of altered stability to autolytic degradation

A method for the purification of a culture filtrate resulting from the fermentation of an organism of the species Mucor miehei involves the selective adsorption of the microbial rennet present in the culture filtrate by a blue dye affinity ligand with subsequent elution of the adsorbed microbial rennet to provide it in a purified form.

Purification of microbial rennet from Mucor miehei

Disclosed is a method for the purification of calf rennet which involves contacting the rennet with an affinity ligand, e.g. Cibacron Blue, to cause separation of the chymosin and pepsin contained in the rennet.

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Elkhart, IN, United States of America

Sethuraman Subramanian