Patent ID: 7049125

Claim:
An isolated polynucleotide encoding a fungal glycosyl hydrolase Family 5 endoglucanase enzyme having endoglucanase activity selected from the group consisting of: (a) a nucleic acid sequence which encodes or is complementary to a sequence which encodes an EGVIII polypeptide having at least 98% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NOs:3 and 2 as shown in FIG. 2 ; (b) a nucleic acid sequence which encodes or is complementary to a sequence which encodes an EGVIII polypeptide having at least 95% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NOs:3 and 2 as shown in FIG. 2 ; (c) a nucleic acid sequence which encodes or is complementary to a sequence which encodes an EGVIII polypeptide having the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NOs:3 and 2 as shown in FIG. 2 ; (d) a nucleic add sequence which encodes or is complementary to a sequence which encodes an EGVIII polypeptide having at least 95% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO:2; (e) a nucleic acid sequence which encodes or is complementary to a sequence which encodes an EGVIII polypeptide having the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO:2; and (f) a nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID NO:4, or the full length complement thereof; wherein % identity is calculated using the CLUSTAL-W program in MacVector version 6.5, operated with default parameters, including an open gap penalty of 10.0, an extended gap penalty of 0.1, and a BLOSUM 30 similarity matrix.