US 11,987,649 B2
Wet milling process
James Lavigne, Wake Forest, NC (US); Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Wake Forest, NC (US); Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Wake Forest, NC (US); Chee-Leong Soong, Raleigh, NC (US); Randall Scott Deinhammer, Wake Forest, NC (US); Zhen Long, Beijing (CN); Yi Cao, Beijing (CN); Michael John Akerman, Wake Forest, NC (US); Xinyu Shen, Wake Forest, NC (US); Yu Zhang, Beijing (CN); and Brian R. Scott, West Sacramento, CA (US)
Assigned to NOVOZYMES A/S, Bagsvaerd (DK)
Filed by Novozymes A/S, Bagsvaerd (DK)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/299,638.
Application 17/060,477 is a division of application No. 15/773,083, granted, now 10,836,837, issued on Nov. 17, 2020, previously published as PCT/CN2016/107282, filed on Nov. 25, 2016.
Application 18/299,638 is a continuation of application No. 17/060,477, filed on Oct. 1, 2020, granted, now 11,649,298.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2016/107282 (WO), filed on Nov. 25, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0235094 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. C08B 30/04 (2006.01); C08B 30/02 (2006.01); C08H 99/00 (2010.01)
CPC C08B 30/044 (2013.01) [C08B 30/02 (2013.01); C08H 99/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
 
1. A process for treating crop kernels, comprising:
a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels;
b) grinding the soaked kernels to form ground kernels;
c) separating the germ from the ground kernels to produce a slurry comprising fiber, starch and protein; and
d) treating the slurry in a fiber washing step to separate fiber from the starch and protein in the presence of an effective amount of a polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein the polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 27.