Patent ID: 7608689

Claim:
A method for degrading or converting a cellulosic material, comprising: treating the cellulosic material with an effective amount of one or more cellulolytic proteins in the presence of an effective amount of a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, wherein the presence of the polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity increases the degradation of cellulosic material compared to the absence of the polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and wherein the polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity does not itself degrade or convert the cellulosic material in the absence of one or more cellulolytic protein and wherein the polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity is selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence which has at least 95% sequence identity with the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2; (b) a polypeptide encoded by a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence which has at least 95% sequence identity with the mature polypeptide coding sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; and (c) a polypeptide encoded by a polynucleotide which hybridizes under at least high stringency conditions with (i) the mature polypeptide coding sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, (ii) the genomic DNA sequence comprising the mature polypeptide coding sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or (iii) a full-length complementary strand of (i) or (ii), wherein 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 65° C.