Patent ID: 7091002

Claim:
A method of producing a hydrolysate from a proteinaceous substrate which comprises subjecting the substrate to an endopeptidase and a polypeptide having carboxypeptidase activity, wherein the polypeptide having carboxypeptidase activity is selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence which has at least 95% identity with amino acids 19 to 555 of SEQ ID NO: 2; (b) a polypeptide which is encoded by a nucleic acid sequence which hybridizes under medium stringency conditions nucleotides 55 to 1662 of SEQ ID NO: 1, or its complementary strand, wherein medium stringency conditions are defined as prehybridization and hybridization a 42° C. in 5×SSPE, 0.3% SDS, 200 mg/ml sheared and denatured salmon sperm DNA, and 35% formamide; and (c) a fragment of (a) or (b), wherein the fragment has carboxypeptidase activity.