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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2009
William a Cuevas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sang-kyu Lee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sandra W Ramer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Shaw, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amr R Toppozada, San Francisco, CA (US);
David E Estell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sura H Hadi, San Francisco, CA (US);
William A Cuevas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sang-Kyu Lee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sandra W Ramer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Shaw, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amr R Toppozada, San Francisco, CA (US);
David E Estell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sura H Hadi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Danisco US Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Described are variants of a parent α-amylase that exhibits an alteration in at least one of the following properties relative to said parent α-amylase: specific activity, substrate specificity, substrate binding, substrate cleavage, thermal stability, pH-dependent activity, pH-dependent stability, oxidative stability, Ca2+ dependency, pI, and wash performance. The variants are suitable for starch conversion, ethanol production, laundry washing, dish washing, hard surface cleaning, textile desizing, and/or sweetener production.