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Direvo and Danisco Collaboration Yields New Industrial Enzyme

31 Oct 2007 - DIREVO Biotech AG announced that an industrial enzyme protein engineering project in collaboration with Danisco A/S, has yielded a significantly improved phytase enzyme. The project exploited Direvo's high throughput, robotic screening and directed evolution technologies for enzyme optimization.
 
Phytic acid is the main phosphate storage molecule in plants. Phytase enzymes release phosphate from phytic acid and thus have applications in multiple industrial markets.
 
"This is the first enzyme derived from Direvo's technology platform to reach the market, and we are extremely proud to see this further validation of our approach", said Anindya Mukherjee, Executive VP Industrial Biotechnology of Direvo. "The collaboration with Danisco A/S and its Genencor Division has been a great success to date and we look forward to many similar successes in future collaborations".