Stabilizing agent for enzymes

US4118279A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Determann
• Erich Bernt · Munich, DE
• Werner Dollacker · Waldshut-Tiengen, DE
• Ingeborg Gutmann · Penzberg, DE
• by Gudrun Engelhardt, administrator · Riegelsberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 18, 1977
• Grant date: Oct 3, 1978
• Expiry date: Oct 18, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N9/96
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Enzyme preparations, particularly enzyme preparations containing organic sulfhydryl compounds for activation, are stabilized by means of a stabilizing agent comprising oxypolygelatine, especially oxypolygelatine having an average molecular weight of from 10,000 to 50,000.