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Article: Novozymes obtains United States patent.(Novozymes A/S patents a variant of a cell-wall degrading enzyme having a beta-helix structure)(Brief Article)
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- BIOTECH Patent News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) has patented a variant of a cell-wall degrading enzyme having a beta-helix structure, which variant holds at least one substituent in a position determined by identifying all residues potentially belonging to a stack; characterizing the stack as interior or exterior; characterising the stack as polar, hydrophobic or aromatic/heteroaromatic based on the dominating characteristics of the parent or wild-type enzyme stack residues and/or its orientation relative to the beta-helix (interior or exterior); optimizing all stack positions of a stack either to ...