Patent ID: 7303899

Claim:
A process for producing a glucose syrup from a granular starch slurry, said process comprising: contacting a granular starch substrate with a granular starch hydrolyzing enzyme (GSHE) having glucoamylase activity and at least 98% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO: 3, wherein said GSHE is obtained from Humicola and wherein said GSHE is produced from the expression of a heterologous polynucleotide encoding said GSHE in a culture of Trichoderma reesei cells, and further contacting said granular starch substrate with an alpha amylase derived from a Bacillus strain, said contacting occuring at a temperature below the gelatinization temperature of the granular starch; and allowing the alpha amylase and GSHE to act for a period of time between 2 and 100 hours to obtain a glucose syrup.