Patent ID: 7700338

Claim:
An isolated cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase (CGTase), comprising: (a) a CGTase having an amino acid sequence which has at least 95% identity with the amino acid sequence shown as amino acids 1 to 679 of SEQ ID NO:2; or (b) a CGTase which is encoded by a nucleic acid sequence which hybridizes under high stringency conditions with a complementary strand of the nucleic acid sequence shown as nucleotides 103 to 2139 of SEQ ID NO:1 under hybridization conditions comprising hybridizing in a solution of 5×SSPE, 0.3% SDS, 200 μg/ml of sheared and denatured salmon sperm DNA, and 50% formamide, followed by washing in 2×SSC, 0.2% SDS for 15 minutes at a temperature of 65° C.