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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2005
Alginases, systems containing alginases and methods of cloning, purifying and/or utilizing alginases
Applicants:
Ronald M. Weiner, Potomac, MD (US);
Steven W. Hutcheson, Columbia, MD (US);
Ahmed Abdel-wahab Abdel-hafez, Nasr, EG;
Michael Howard, Diamondhead, MS (US);
Larry Edmund Taylor, Ii, Palmyra, PA (US);
Nathan A. Ekborg, Annapolis, MD (US);
Inventors:
Ronald M. Weiner, Potomac, MD (US);
Steven W. Hutcheson, Columbia, MD (US);
Ahmed Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Hafez, Nasr, EG;
Michael Howard, Diamondhead, MS (US);
Larry Edmund Taylor, II, Palmyra, PA (US);
Nathan A. Ekborg, Annapolis, MD (US);
Assignee:
University of Maryland, College Park, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/34 (2006.01); C12N 1/20 (2006.01); C12N 9/14 (2006.01); C12P 21/06 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to cell wall degradative systems, in particular to systems containing enzymes that bind to and/or depolymerize cellulose. These systems have a number of applications.