Patent ID: 8951770
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: A21D,C12N

Abstract:
1. An isolated variant of a parent GH8 xylanase polypeptide, wherein said variant comprises a conserved GH8 xylanase motif [ST]E[GAS]X[GAS][YFW] (SEQ ID NO: 1); the variant comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to amino acids 1-406 of the GH8 xylanase of SEQ ID NO: 3; the variant comprises at least one amino acid alteration which is a substitution, deletion, and/or insertion of one or more amino acids at one or more position(s) corresponding to position(s) 53, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, and/or 62 of SEQ ID NO: 3, and the variant has xylanase activity.