Enzymes for detergents

US5801039A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Cognis Gesellschaft fuer Bio und Umwelttechnologie mbH · DE

Inventors

• Karl-Heinz Maurer · Erkrath, DE
• Albrecht Weiss · Linden, DE
• Christian Paech · Santa Rosa, US
• Dean Goddette · Abdulrahman Khaleefah Street, US
• Teresa Margaret Christianson · Cotati, US
• Maria Tang · Fairfield, US
• Charles R. Wilson · Santa Rosa, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 1, 1995
• Grant date: Sep 1, 1998
• Expiry date: Dec 1, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D3/386
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

This invention relates to proteases with improved application properties in cleaners and detergents. The improvement's achieved by substituting positively charged or uncharged amino acids in the substrate binding region of the wild type subtilisin protease.