Emanating from our animal feed activities are numerous rights involving enzymes degrading plant derived material. Such enzymes have wide potential uses outside the animal feed area, especially for food and food raw materials uses, but also within e.g. agricultural waste processing.
Removal or degradation of plant cell-wall material is crucial in processing of plant material of any origin. We offer access to rights involving plant cell-wall degrading enzymes such as rhamnogalacturonases (of the hydrolase and lyase types), galactanases, and alpha-galactosidases (including US 6,001,627; US 5,538,884; US 5,811,291; US 5,882,911; US 6,033,900; US 5,474,922; WO 97/32013; WO 97/32014; US 5,919,690; and foreign counterparts). The increasing awareness of the benefits of soy protein inclusion in foods underlines the potential value of such rights.
Phosphate release from plant sources has been very successfully implemented in the animal feed area. The clear nutritional benefits and big commercial potentials realized in that area open up the possibility of extending such concepts to the field of human nutrition as well. We offer access to rights involving an array of phosphate-releasing enzymes (phytases) of fungal origin with exceptionally high specific activity, and with wide varieties of other enzymatic characteristics, including broad/narrow substrate specificity, thermostability and pH optima (US 5,866,118; US 6,060,298; US 6,054,306; US 6,039,942; FC ).
Finally, the combined use of proteases and phytases offers advantages in certain processes (US 5,989,600; and foreing counterparts).