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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 09, 2007
Applicants:

Wolfgang Aehle, Delfgauw, NL;

Piet Van Solingen, Naaldwijk, NL;

Martijn S. Scheffers, Leiden, NL;

Richard R. Bott, Burlingame, CA (US);

Inventors:

Wolfgang Aehle, Delfgauw, NL;

Piet Van Solingen, Naaldwijk, NL;

Martijn S. Scheffers, Leiden, NL;

Richard R. Bott, Burlingame, CA (US);

Assignee:

Danisco US Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/34 (2006.01); C12N 15/00 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01); C12N 15/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/2428 (2013.01); C12N 15/09 (2013.01); Y02E 50/17 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention relates to variants of a parent glucoamylase having altered properties (e.g., improved thermostability and/or specific activity). In particular, the present invention provides compositions comprising the variant glucoamylases, including starch hydrolyzing compositions, animal feed compositions and cleaning compositions. The invention also relates to DNA constructs encoding the variants and methods of producing the glucoamylase variants in host cells.


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