MUTANT XYLANASE, MANUFACTURING METHOD AND USE THEREFOR, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SACCHARIFIED LIGNOCELLULOSE

• Main Authors: INOUE, ATSUSHI, OKAKURA, KAORU, TAMAI, HIROKI, YANAI, HISAAKI, YOKOYAMA, FUMIKAZU, OSABE, MASAMI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; Japanese
• Published: 30.05.2013
• Subjects: ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; BAKERY PRODUCTS; BAKING; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLEACHING LEATHER OR FURS; CANDLES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; DETERGENTS; DRY-CLEANING, WASHING OR BLEACHING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS,YARNS, FABRICS, FEATHERS OR MADE-UP FIBROUS GOODS; EDIBLE DOUGHS; ENZYMOLOGY; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FODDER; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; LAUNDERING; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PRESERVATION THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL; RESIN SOAPS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; SPIRITS; TEXTILES; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; TREATMENT, e.g. PRESERVATION, OF FLOUR OR DOUGH, e.g. BYADDITION OF MATERIALS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; VINEGAR; WINE

The present invention addresses the following problems: providing an inexpensive, efficient lignocellulose saccharification method using a thermostable xylanase; and providing a mutant xylanase that has a substituted amino-acid residue, exhibits stable activity even under harsh conditions in which e...