Patent ID: 7244605

Claim:
An isolated polypeptide having beta-glucosidase activity, selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence which has at least 95% identity with amino acids 20 to 863 of SEQ ID NO: 2; and (b) a polypeptide which is encoded by a polynucleotide which hybridizes under at least high stringency conditions with (i) nucleotides 58 to 2580 of SEQ ID NO: 1, (ii) the cDNA sequence contained in nucleotides 58 to 2580 of SEQ ID NO: 1, or (iii) the complement of (i) or (ii), wherein high stringency conditions are defined as prehybridizabon 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 65° C.