The present invention relates to a composition comprising: (a) a source of sulfite; and (b) a lipase variant of a parent lipase, wherein one or more amino acids in the parent lipase within 20 angstrom () of a cysteine bridge are replaced with a more negatively charged amino acid.

The present invention provides polypeptides having DNase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also provides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.

A hand dishwashing cleaning composition comprising a surfactant system including an anionic surfactant and an amine oxide co-surfactant wherein the weight ratio of the surfactant system to the amine oxide is from about 1.5:1 to about 4.5:1 and wherein the composition further includes a protease and an enzyme stabilizer selected from the group consisting of: potassium salts of halides, sulfates, sulfites, carbonates, hydrogencarbonates, nitrates, nitrites, phosphates, formates, acetates, propionates, citrates, maleates, tartarates, succinates, oxalates and lactates; a peptide aldehyde, peptide ketone, a hydrosulfite adduct thereof; a phenyl boronic acid, a derivative thereof and mixtures thereof.

Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for preventing, reducing, or removing biofilms and microbial growth from liquid solutions, as well as from surfaces, such as fabrics, textiles or hard surfaces.

The disclosure is directed to cleaning compositions, methods of making the cleaning compositions, and methods of using the cleaning compositions. The cleaning compositions comprise an enzyme composition, a nonionic surfactant having an HLB between 10 and 22, and a quaternary amine. Preferably, the enzyme compositions included in the cleaning compositions comprise a cellulase, an AA9 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, a hemicellulase, an esterase, an expansin, a laccase, a ligninolytic enzyme, a pectinase, a peroxidase, a protease, a swollenin, or a combination or mixture thereof. The compositions are useful for degradation of bacterial cellulose.

A detergent composition may include xanthan lyase and endoglucanase variants with improved stability. Methods for use of said compositions are also disclosed.

Detergent compositions that contain an enzyme, alkaline source, and phosphonate or amine phosphonate salt are described here. A use solution of the detergent compositions containing disclosed phosphonates can retain its enzyme activity for an extended period of time. Specifically, one specific type of phosphonates and another specific type of amine phosphonate salts were discovered to stabilize enzymes in detergent compositions. Solid detergent compositions that contain disclosed phosphonate or amine phosphonate salts are more effective to remove soils and can save production and use costs.

A liquid composition, including component (a): at least one peptide aldehyde, and component (b): at least two organic solvents, where one organic solvent is 1,2-propane diol and at least one further organic solvent is selected from the group consisting of diols other than 1,2-propane diol in a weight ratio of 1,2-propane diol: at least one diol other than 1,2-propane diol of 25:1 to 1:4.

The present invention is directed to aqueous reaction mixtures for enzymatic synthesis reactions comprising a surfactant. The surfactant in the reaction mixture increases stability and yield of the enzymatic reaction. Furthermore, method for performing an enzymatic reaction using said aqueous reaction mixtures are provided.

Disclosed herein is a homogenous, storage-stable liquid enzyme preparation, including component (a): at least one enzyme selected from the group of hydrolases (EC 3); component (b): an enzyme-stabilizing system including (bi) at least one compound according to general formula (A)

##STR00001## where the variables in formula (A) are as follows: R.sup.1 is selected from H and C.sub.1-C.sub.10 alkylcarbonyl, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 are independently from each other selected from H, linear C.sub.1-C.sub.5 alkyl, branched C.sub.3-C.sub.10 alkyl, C.sub.6-C.sub.10-aryl, non-substituted or substituted with one or more carboxylate or hydroxyl groups, and C.sub.6-C.sub.10-aryl-alkyl, where alkyl of the latter is selected from linear C.sub.1-C.sub.8 alkyl or branched C.sub.3-C.sub.8 alkyl, where at least one of R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 is not H; and (bii) at least one compound selected from boron containing compound and peptide stabilizer, and component (c): at least one diol.