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Granted Patent B2
US 12,286,604 · App. 18/504,743 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Liquid cleaning compositions comprising protease variants

Inventors: Peter Kamp Hansen (Lejre, DK); Esben Peter Friis (Herlev, DK); Torben Vedel Borchert (Birkeroed, DK); Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen (Alleroed, DK); Jens Erik Nielsen (Bagsvaerd, DK); Maria Berggaard Silow (Lund, SE)
Assignee: Novozymes A/S
C11D3/38618C11D3/044C11D3/08C12N9/54C12Y304/21062
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Patent No.
US 12,286,604
App. No.
18/504,743
Granted
Apr 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to compositions comprising protease variants suitable for use in cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions.

Claims (46)

1. A liquid cleaning composition comprising:

(a) from 20 to 95 wt. % water; and

(b) at least 0.01 wt. % protease variant, wherein the protease variant has an amino acid sequence which has at least 60% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 and comprises

a substitution at the positions corresponding to positions 205 and 209 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1) and

a substitution at a position corresponding to position 3, 9, 18, 43, 49, 61, 76, 115, 120, 182, 185, 188, 194, 206, 216, 217, 218, 222, 255, 256, 259, 260, 261 or 262 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

2. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at a position corresponding to position 3 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

3. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 9 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

4. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 3 , wherein the substitution at the position corresponding to position 9 is a substitution with an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Ala, Arg, Asn, Asp, Cys, Glu, Gln, Gly, His, Ile, Leu, Lys, Met, Phe, Pro, Thr, Trp, Tyr, and Val.

5. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 18 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

6. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 43 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

7. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 49 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

8. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 61 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

9. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 76 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

10. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 115 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

11. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 120 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

12. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 182 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

13. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 185 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

14. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 188 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

15. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 194 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

16. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 206 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

17. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 216 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

18. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 217 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

19. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 218 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

20. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 19 , wherein the substitution at the position corresponding to position 218 is a substitution with an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Ala, Arg, Asp, Cys, Glu, Gln, Gly, His, Ile, Leu, Lys, Met, Phe, Pro, Ser, Thr, Trp, Tyr, and Val.

21. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 222 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

22. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 255 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

23. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 256 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

24. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 259 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

25. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 260 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

26. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 261 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

27. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the position corresponding to position 262 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

28. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the positions corresponding to positions 9 and 259 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

29. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant comprises a substitution at the positions corresponding to positions 218 and 259 of BPN′ (SEQ ID NO: 1).

30. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant has at least 70% but less than 100% sequence identity to the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2.

31. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant has at least 75% but less than 100% sequence identity to the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2.

32. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant has at least 80% but less than 100% sequence identity to the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2.

33. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant has at least 85% but less than 100% sequence identity to the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2.

34. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant has at least 90% but less than 100% sequence identity to the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2.

35. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the protease variant has at least 95% but less than 100% sequence identity to the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2.

36. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the pH of the cleaning composition is from 7 to 13.5.

37. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the pH of the cleaning composition is from 7 to 13.

38. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , wherein the pH of the cleaning composition is from 7.5 to 13.5.

39. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , which further comprises a surfactant.

40. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , which further comprises a buffer system.

41. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , which further comprises a protease inhibitor.

42. The liquid cleaning composition of claim 1 , which further comprises one or more additional enzymes selected from the group consisting of amylases, catalases, cellulases, cutinases, DNases, haloperoxygenases, lipases, mannanases, pectinases, pectin lyases, perhydrolases, peroxidases, xanthanases, and xyloglucanases, or any mixture thereof.

Priority Claims (2)
EP 14196296 · Dec 4, 2014 · regional
EP 15194218 · Nov 12, 2015 · regional
Continuity (4)
Continuation 17501781 · Oct 14, 2021
Continuation 16282493 · Feb 22, 2019
Continuation 15532595
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