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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Ward, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Kathleen A Clarkson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Edmund A Larenas, San Carlos, CA (US);
Jeffrey D Lorch, Hudson, WI (US);
Geoffrey L Weiss, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Genencor International, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
536 2374 ; 536 232 ; 435209 ;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to purified EG III cellulase enzyme isolated from Trichoderma longibrachiatum and the amino acid sequence of the secreted (mature) and non-secreted (preprotein) forms. The present invention is further directed to the DNA fragment and sequence that encodes the EG III cellulase enzyme. Also disclosed are methods for isolating either purified or highly enriched EG III cellulase obtained from Trichoderma spp. or genetically modified strains of Trichoderma spp.