Claims for Patent: 8,105,815

Summary for Patent: 8,105,815

Title:	Asparaginase and its use in food production
Abstract:	Process for the production of a food product involving at least one heating step, comprising adding one or more enzymes to an intermediate form of said food product in said production process whereby the enzyme is added prior to said heating step in an amount that is effective in reducing the level of amino acids that are present in said intermediate form of said food product which amino acids are involved in the formation of acrylamide during said heating step. The invention also relates to food products obtained from the process of the invention.
Inventor(s):	Plomp; Pieter Jan Arnoldus Maria (Delft, NL), Boer; Lex de (Wateringen, NL), Rooijen; Rutger Jan van (Ede, NL), Meima; Roelf Bernhard (Kamerik, NL)
Assignee:	DSM IP Assets B.V. (Herleen, NL)
Application Number:	10/538,000
Patent Claims:	1. An isolated asparaginase comprising an amino acid sequence which is at least 99% identical to SEQ ID NO: 3. 2. A recombant asparaginase comprising an enzymatically active fragment of the asparaginase according to claim 1. 3. An isolated as asparaginase with an amino acid sequence comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3. 4. An isolated asparaginase comprising an amino acid sequence which is at least 95% identical to SEQ ID NO: 3.

Details for Patent 8,105,815

Applicant	Tradename	Biologic Ingredient	Dosage Form	BLA	Approval Date	Patent No.	Expiredate
Recordati Rare Diseases, Inc.	ELSPAR	asparaginase	For Injection	101063	01/10/1978		2022-12-19