Patent ID: 6013489
Filing Date: 2000-01-11
Classification: A23L,C12N

Abstract:
A process of using a recombinant nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide for degrading or modifying pectin or pectin-containing vegetable or plant cell wall material comprising incubating said pectin or pectin-containing vegetable or plant cell wall material with said polypeptide having rhamnogalacturonase activity, said activity being a degrading activity of a rhamnogalacturonan backbone of a modified hairy region (MHR) of pectin by the polypepetide which is isolated and purified, said polypeptide being obtained by expression of said recombinant nucleic acid sequence, said recombinant nucleic acid sequence encoding an amino acid sequence comprised of position +1 through 422 of SEQ ID NO: 6.