Patent ID: 8865447
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: C12N,C12P,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A process for degrading a xylan-containing material, the process comprising: (i) treating a xylan-containing material with a composition comprising a polypeptide having xylanase activity, and (ii) recovering the degraded xylan-containing material; wherein the polypeptide having xylanase activity is selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polypeptide having at least 95% sequence identity to the sequence of amino acids 20 to 248 of SEQ ID NO: 4; (b) a polypeptide is encoded by a polynucleotide that hybridizes under very high stringency conditions with (i) nucleotides 58 to 802 of SEQ ID NO: 3, (ii) a cDNA sequence thereof, or (iii) the full-length complement of (i) or (ii), wherein very high stringency conditions are defined as prehybridization and hybridization at 42° C. in 5×SSPE, 0.3% SDS, 200 μg/ml sheared and denatured salmon sperm DNA, and 50% formamide and washing three times each for 15 minutes using 2×SSC, 0.2% SDS at 70° C.; and (c) a fragment of the sequence of amino acids 20 to 248 of SEQ ID NO: 4 which has xylanase activity.