Patent ID: 6080567
Filing Date: 2000-06-27
Classification: A21D,A23K,A23L,C12C,C12G,C12N,C12Y,D21C

Abstract:
An essentially pure enzyme having xylanase activity, as measured by release of reducing sugars from birch xylan or by release of blue color from AZCL-Birch xylan, said enzyme having a pH optimum of 6-7 and a temperature optimum of 30-50.degree. C. and which DNA sequence hybridizes to a DNA sequence depicted in SEQ ID NO. 1 under the following conditions: hybridizing in 5.times. SSC, 5.times. Denhardt's solution, 0.5% SDS, and 50 .mu.g/ml salmon sperm DNA for 16 hrs at about 65.degree. C followed by washes in 5.times. SSC, 2.times. SSC, 0.5% SDS, 0.2.times. SSC, 0.5% SDS and 5.times. SSC at 65.degree. C.