Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090004697 | Generation of Chemical Building Blocks from Plant Biomass by Selective Depolymerization - The invention concerns a method for the enzymatic treatment of raw polymeric feedstock comprising the following steps: (a) preferably separation of soluble components from the raw polymeric feedstock, (b) treating the raw polymeric feedstock with an enzyme system in order to liberate defined soluble monomeric or oligomeric building blocks from the insoluble raw polymeric feedstock; and (c) separating the defined monomeric or oligomeric building blocks produced in step b) from the remainder of the raw polymeric feedstock. Preferably, the enzyme system used in step b) contains not more than 50%, preferably not more than 20%, more preferably not more than 10%, more preferably not more than 5%, more preferably not more than 2%, more preferably not more than 1% of other enzyme activities apart from the enzyme activity resulting in liberation of said defined monomeric or oligomeric building blocks from the raw polymeric feedstock according to step b). Further aspects of the invention concern the use of “less pure” and thus less costly enzyme systems in subsequent enzymatic treatment steps and methods for determining the optimum sequence of enzymatic treatment steps by analysis of the raw polymeric feedstock used. | 01-01-2009 |
20090208440 | BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES AND THE USE THEREOF - The present invention provides engineered enzymes generated from protein scaffolds combined with Specificity Determining Regions, the production thereof and the use of said engineered enzymes for research, nutritional care, personal care and industrial purposes. | 08-20-2009 |
20100233161 | NOVEL MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOUNDS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES - The invention relates to a synthetic bifunctional non-antibody compound comprising one or more effector moieties and one or more binder moieties, wherein the effector moieties are operably linked to the binder moieties via a linker, the effector moieties are ligands to at least one pathogen pattern recognition receptor (PRR) and the binder moieties bind to a marker of a tumor cell. | 09-16-2010 |
20110152514 | DECOMPOSITION OF MATERIALS CONTAINING CARBOHYDRATES USING INORGANIC CATALYSTS - The invention relates to a method for depolymerizing materials containing carbohydrates comprising the following steps: (a) treating a material containing carbohydrates with an inorganic catalyst in order to release defined monomeric or oligomeric building blocks from the material containing the carbohydrates; and (b) separating the defined monomeric or oligomeric building blocks produced in step (a) from the rest of the carbohydrate-containing material. Preferably, the inorganic catalyst used in step (a) comprises tectosilicates, phyilosilicates or hydrotalcites and more preferably zeolites or bentonites. The carbohydrate-containing material further comprises preferably LCB and the defined monomeric or oligomeric building blocks are preferably glucoses, xyloses, arabinoses and oligomers thereof. Other aspects of the invention refer to the use of solution promoters in combination with the inorganic catalyst. | 06-23-2011 |
20110237833 | RECOVERY AND PURIFICATION PROCESS FOR ORGANIC MOLECULES - The invention concerns a process for the recovery of an organic moiecule from the overhead vapor phase of aqueous media by adsorbing onto an adsorbent, wherein no additional thermal energy for said vaporization is provided, and wherein the organic molecule is recovered afterwards by desorbing from the adsorber. | 09-29-2011 |
20110312052 | PROCESS FOR CELL-FREE PRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS - An enzymatic process is described for the production of chemicals from carbon sources. In particular, according to one aspect, a process for the production of a target organic compound from a carbon source by a cell-free enzyme system is disclosed. | 12-22-2011 |
20120010153 | NOVEL TUMOR-TARGETING COMPOUNDS - The invention relates to a novel compounds targeting human cancer cells, a method for synthesis of such compounds, and use of such compounds in treating cancer. | 01-12-2012 |
20120135475 | LIQUEFIED BIOMASS - The invention is directed to a liquefied sugar beet and/or sugar cane biomass material as well as production methods and uses thereof. The liquefied biomass is storage stable and can be used for the production of a product resulting from fermentation. | 05-31-2012 |
20130095543 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING ETHANOL DURING FERMENTATION - The invention relates to a method for obtaining ethanol from a carbohydrate-containing raw substrate wherein the ethanol that is produced is separated during fermentation using a carrier gas. The invention further relates to the adsorption of the ethanol from the gas phase to an adsorber, the desorption of the ethanol during a subsequent process step, and to the further concentration of the ethanol. | 04-18-2013 |
20130109062 | THERMOSTABLE XYLANASE FOR THE SELECTIVE HYDROLYSIS OF PENTOSE-CONTAINING POLYSACCHARIDES | 05-02-2013 |
20130123115 | OPTIMIZED CELLULASE ENZYMES - The invention discloses cellulase enzymes with optimized properties for processing of cellulose- and lignocellulose-containing substrates. In particular, cellobiohydrolase enzymes with preferred characteristics are disclosed. The present invention provides fusion, insertion, deletion and/or substitution variants of such enzymes. Enzyme variants have enhanced thermostability, proteolytic stability, specific activity and/or stability at extreme pH. Nucleic acid molecules encoding said enzymes, a composition comprising said enzymes, a method for preparation, and the use for cellulose processing and/or for the production of biofuels are disclosed. | 05-16-2013 |