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• the present invention relates to liquid detergent compositions which contain an enzyme system.
• the enzyme system is a combination of a modified protease and a lipase.
• detergent compositions may advantageously comprise enzyme systems.
• enzyme systems include cellulase, protease, lipase and amylases.
• the present invention is specifically aiming at providing liquid detergent compositions in which the enzyme system comprises a mixture of protease and lipase.
• liquid detergent composition comprising an enzyme system comprising a lipase and a protease, wherein said enzyme system is stable; by stable, it is meant that the proteolytic degradation of the lipase is substantially reduced.
• Modified bacterial serine proteases including proteases suitable for use in the compositions according to the invention are disclosed for instance in EP-A-0 328 229 as well as their use in detergent compositions.
• This patent application describes among others a modified bacterial serine protease which is commercially available from GIST-BROCADES under the name MAXAPEM 15 R
• LIPOLASE R can be combined with proteases to form a granular enzymatic detergent additive.
• EP-A-0 381 262 describes detergent compositions comprising a protease and a lipase, preferably LIPOLASE R , together with a stabilizing system.
• the proteases disclosed in this reference include bacterial proteases.
• the present invention is a liquid detergent composition
• a liquid detergent composition comprising an enzyme system, characterized in that the enzyme system comprises a modified bacterial serine protease or mixtures thereof, and a lipase or mixtures thereof.
• the bacterial serine protease is modified in that the methionine adjacent to the serine of the active site is substituted by another amino acid.
• the enzyme system according to the present invention comprises a lipase and a protease.
• Any lipase suitable for use in a detergent composition can be used in the compositions according to the invention, as described for instance in EP 0 381 262 or EP 271 152.
• the preferred lipase to be used in the compositions according to the present invention is a lipase derived from Humicola lanuginosa , as described in EP-A-0 258 068 to NOVO INDUSTRI A/S. This patent application describes how to obtain said specific lipase, but said specific lipase is also commercially available from NOVO NORDISK A/S under the trade name LIPOLASE R .
• lipases suitable for use herein are Amono-P Lipase R , Amono-B Lipase R , Amono CES Lipase R , Amono AKG Lipase R , all from Amono Pharmaceuticals, Japan; Toyo Jozo Co, Japan and US biochemical Corp. USA as well as Diosynth Co, NL also commercialize suitable lipases for use in the compositions according to the present invention.
• compositions according to the present invention typically comprise from 0.1 to 10000 Lipolytic Units per gram of finished product, preferably from 10 to 2500 Lipolytic Units per gram of finished product.
• Lipolytic units are defined for instance in EP 0 258 268, page 5 line 38..
• the proteases to be used according to the present invention are modified bacterial serine proteases. All native bacterial serine proteases are characterized in that the active site invariably comprises a triade of amino acids which are serine, histidine and aspartic acid. These amino acids are positioned in the native form of the enzyme in such a way that they catalyse the cleavage of internal peptide bonds of proteins. Another common point between these bacterial serine proteases is that there always is a methionine adjacent to the serine of the active site, in the native sequence.
• the bacterial serine proteases suitable for use according to the present invention are those wherein the methionine adjacent to the serine of the active site has been substituted by another amino acid.
• the serine of the active site can also be defined as the serine which is homologuous to the serine in position 221 in the amino acid sequence of the bacterial subtilisin protease produced by Bacillus Subtilis ; said sequence is listed herein after as SEQ ID NO 1
• SEQ ID NO 1 In the sequence of this bacterial subtilisin protease produced by Bacillus Subtilis , the methionine is immediately after the serine in position 221 and therefore it is the methionine in position 222 which needs to be substituted by another amino acid.
• this methionine would not be immediately following the serine of the active site; in such a case, it is the methionine homologuous to the methionine in position 222 in the sequence of this bacterial subtilisin protease produced by Bacillus Subtilis which needs to be substituted by another amino acid.
• modified bacterial serine proteases suitable for use in the compositions according to the invention are commercially available, such as DURAZYM R from NOVO, which is the methionine modified version of SAVINASE R ; another example of available modified protease is MAXAPEM 15 from GIST-BROCADES, which is the modified version of MAXACAL R wherein the methionine in position 216 has been substituted. Also available are experimental samples of modified OPTICLEAN R and OPTIMASE R , from SOLVAY enzymes; both are modified in that the methionine in position 222 is substituted by a cysteine.
• Preferred modified bacterial serine protease according to the present invention are MAXAPEM 15 R from GIST BROCADES and DURAZYM R from NOVO.
• compositions according to the present invention typically will contain from 0.005 to 10 mg of active protease per gram of finished product, preferably from 0.01 to 5.0 mg of active protease per gram of finished product. Mixtures of the modified bacterial serine protease described herein above are also suitable for use in the compositions according to the invention.
• the rest of the liquid detergent composition according to the present invention is made of conventional detergency ingredients, i.e. water, surfactants, builders and others.
• the following description of these ingredients is for the sake of completeness of the description and is not to be construed as limiting the compositions of the present invention to those conventional ingredients described.
• the liquid detergent compositions herein comprises from 5% to 60% by weight of the total liquid detergent composition, preferably from 10% by weight to 40% by weight of an organic surface-active agent selected from nonionic, anionic, cationic and zwitterionic surface-active agents and mixtures thereof.
• Suitable anionic surface-active salts are selected from the group of sulfonates and sulfates.
• the like anionic surfactants are well-known in the detergent arts and have found wide application in commercial detergents.
• Preferred anionic water-soluble sulfonate or sulfate salts have in their molecular structure an alkyl radical containing from about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms.
• Such preferred anionic surfactant salts are the reaction products obtained by sulfating C8-C18 fatty alcohols derived from e.g. tallow oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil and coconut oil; alkylbenzene sulfonates wherein the alkyl group contains from about 9 to about 15 carbon atoms; sodium alkylglyceryl ether sulfonates; ether sulfates of fatty alcohols derived from tallow and coconut oils; coconut fatty acid monoglyceride sulfates and sulfonates; and water-soluble salts of paraffin sulfonates having from about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain.
• Sulfonated olefin surfactants as more fully described in e.g. U.S. Patent Specification 3,332,880 can also be used.
• the neutralizing cation for the anionic synthetic sulfonates and/or sulfates is represented by conventional cations which are widely used in detergent technology such as sodium, potassium or alkanolammonium.
• a suitable anionic synthetic surfactant component herein is represented by the water-soluble salts of an alkylbenzene sulfonic acid, preferably sodium alkylbenzene sulfonates, preferably sodium alkylbenzene sulfonates having from about 10 to 13 carbon atoms in the alkyl group.
• Another preferred anionic surfactant component herein is sodium alkyl sulfates having from about 10 to 15 carbon atoms in the alkyl group.
• nonionic surfactants suitable for use herein include those produced by condensing ethylene oxide with a hydrocarbon having a reactive hydrogen atom, e.g., a hydroxyl, carboxyl, or amido group, in the presence of an acidic or basic catalyst, and include compounds having the general formula RA(CH2CH2O) n H wherein R represents the hydrophobic moiety, A represents the group carrying the reactive hydrogen atom and n represents the average number of ethylene oxide moieties. R typically contains from about 8 to 22 carbon atoms They can also be formed by the condensation of propylene oxide with a lower molecular weight compound. n usually varies from about 2 to about 24.
• a preferred class of nonionic ethoxylates is represented by the condensation product of a fatty alcohol having from 12 to 15 carbon atoms and from about 4 to 10 moles of ethylene oxide per mole or fatty - alcohol.
• Suitable species of this class of ethoxylates include : the condensation product of C12-C15 oxo-alcohols and 3 to 9 moles of ethylene oxide per mole of alcohol; the condensation product or narrow cut C14-C15 oxo-alcohols and 3 to 9 moles of ethylene oxide per mole of fatty(oxo)alcohol; the condensation product of a narrow cut C12-C13 fatty(oxo)alcohol and 6,5 moles of ethylene oxide per mole of fatty alcohol; and the condensation products of a C10-C14 coconut fatty alcohol with a degree of ethoxylation (moles EO/mole fatty alcohol) in the range from 4 to 8.
• the fatty oxo alcohols while mainly linear can have, depending upon the processing conditions and raw material olefins, a certain degree of branching, particularly short chain such as methyl branching.
• a degree of branching in the range from 15% to 50% (weight%) is frequently found in commercial oxo alcohols.
• Suitable cationic surfactants include quaternary ammonium compounds of the formula R1R2R3R4N+ where R1,R2 and R3 are methyl groups, and R4 is a C12 ⁇ 15 alkyl group, or where R1 is an ethyl or hydroxy ethyl group, R2 and R3 are methyl groups and R4 is a C12 ⁇ 15 alkyl group.
• Zwitterionic surfactants include derivatives of aliphatic quaternary ammonium, phosphonium, and sulfonium compounds in which the aliphatic moiety can be straight or branched chain and wherein one of the aliphatic substituents contains from about 8 to about 24 carbon atoms and another substituent contains, at least, an anionic water-solubilizing group.
• Particularly preferred zwitterionic materials are the ethoxylated ammonium sulfonates and sulfates disclosed in U.S. Patents 3,925,262, Laughlin et al., issued December 9, 1975 and 3,929,678, Laughlin et al., issued December 30, 1975.
• Semi-polar nonionic surfactants include water-soluble amine oxides containing one alkyl or hydroxy alkyl moiety of from about 8 to about 28 carbon atoms and two moieties selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups and hydroxy alkyl groups, containing from 1 to about 3 carbon atoms which can optionally be joined into ring structures.
• Poly hydroxy fatty acid amide surfactants of the formula R2-C-N-Z, wherein R1 is H, O R1 C1 ⁇ 4hydrocarbyl, 2-hydroxy ethyl, 2-hydroxy propyl or a mixture thereof, R2 is C5 ⁇ 31 hydrocarbyl, and Z is a polyhydroxyhydrocarbyl having a linear hydrocarbyl chain with at least 3 hydroxyls directly connected to the chain, or an alkoxylated derivative thereof.
• R1 is methyl
• R2 is a straight C11 ⁇ 15 alkyl or alkenyl chain or mixtures thereof
• Z is derived from a reducing sugar such as glucose, fructose, maltose, lactose, in a reductive amination reaction.
• compositions according to the present invention may further comprise a builder system.
• a builder system Any conventional builder system is suitable, but preferred is a mixture of citric acid and a substituted succinic acid.
• the citric acid builder employed in the practice of this invention will be present in the finished product in the form of any water-soluble salt of citric acid.
• Such salts include, for example, sodium, potassium, ammonium or alkanolammonium salts.
• a citric acid monohydrate slurry as a starting material, which will be neutralized in situ, so as to form the above mentioned salts.
• the substituted succinic acid builders herein are of the general formula R-CH(COOH)CH2(COOH), i.e., derivatives of succinic acid, wherein R is C10-C16 alkyl or alkenyl, preferably C12-C14 alkenyl.
• R is C10-C16 alkyl or alkenyl, preferably C12-C14 alkenyl.
• These substituted succinic acid builders are preferably in the finished product in the form of their water-soluble salts, including the sodium, potassium, ammonium and alkanolammonium salts (e.g., mono-, di-, or tri-ethanolammonium).
• As raw materials it is preferred to use these succinic acid derivatives in their diacid or anhydride form. The diacid will be neutralized in situ, while the anhydride will undergo a hydrolysis/neutralization process.
• substituted succinic acid builders include : lauryl succinic acid, myristyl succinic acid, palmityl succinic acid, 2-dodecenyl succinic acid (preferred), 2-tetradecenyl succinic acid, and the like.
• a preferred builder system comprises from 4% to 12% by weight of the total composition of the above substituted succinic acid builders, and from 4% to 12% by weight of the total composition of citric acid.
• the compositions according to the invention may also contain a fatty acid. Preferred are oleic and palmitoleic acid.
• compositions according to the invention preferably have a pH adjusted in the range of from 6 to 10, preferably from 7.5 to 8.0.
• compositions according to the invention may also comprise an enzyme stabilizing system.
• an enzyme stabilizing system provides a system wherein the protease does not significantly attack the native lipase, but the enzyme system or components thereof may still be subject to unstability problem due to the other detergency ingredients. Therefore, stabilizing agents may be needed, which are conventional and well known in the art.
• a preferred enzyme stabilizing system is selected from boric acid, 1,2-propanediol, carboxylic acids, and mixtures thereof. These enzyme stabilizing systems are typically present in amounts of from 0.01% to 5% by weight of the total composition.
• compositions of the invention may also comprise other enzymes.
• enzymes such as cellulases or amylases.
• Amylases particularly, seem to be stable in the presence of protease, and the compositions of the invention therefore preferably comprise an amylase.
• compositions herein can contain a series of further optional ingredients.
• the like additives include : suds regulants, opacifiers, agents to improve the machine compatibility in relation to enamel-coated surfaces, bactericides, dyes, perfumes, bleaches including perborate and percarbonate, brighteners, soil release agents, softening agents and the like.
• the liquid compositions herein can contain further additives, typically at levels of from 0.05 to 5%.
• additives include polyaminocarboxylates such as ethylenediaminotetracetic acid, diethylenetriaminopentacetic acid, ethylenediamino disuccinic acid or water-soluble alkali metals thereof.
• Other additives include organo-phosphonic acids; particularly preferred are ethylenediamino tetramethylenephosphonic acid, hexamethylenediamino tetramethylenephosphonic acid, diethylenetriamino pentamethylenephosphonic acid and aminotrimethylenephosphonic acid.
• compositions according to the invention are made by mixing the listed ingredients in the listed proportions.
• compositions according to the invention are made by mixing the listed ingredients in the listed proportions 6 7 8 9 10 - Linear alkyl benzene sulfonate 5 7 9 8 10 - Sodium C12 ⁇ 15 alkyl sulfate 5 2 1.75 0 3 - C14 ⁇ 15 alkyl 2.5 times ethoxylated sulfate 2 0 2 0 0 - C12 glucose amide 6 0 7 0 0 - C12 ⁇ 15alcohol 7 times ethoxylated 0 0 0.5 0 11.6 - C12 ⁇ 15alcohol 5 times ethoxylated 0 8 0 8 - Oleic Acid 0 0 0 3.5 2.5 - Citric Acid 10 9 9.5 4 1 - C12 ⁇ 14 alkenyl substituted succinic acid 11 0 11.5 0 0 - STPP 0 20 0 0 0 - Zeolite 0 0 0 26 0 - Ethanol 6 4 4 3 6
• compositions according to the invention are made by mixing the listed ingredients in the listed proportions 11 12 13 14 15 - Linear alkyl benzene sulfonate 5 7 9 8 10 - Sodium C12 ⁇ 15 alkyl sulfate 5 2 1.75 0 3 - C14 ⁇ 15 alkyl 2.5 times ethoxylated sulfate 2 0 2 0 0 - C12 glucose amide 6 0 7 0 0 - C12 ⁇ 15alcohol 7 times ethoxylated 0 0 0.5 0 11.6 - C12 ⁇ 15alcohol 5 times ethoxylated 0 8 0 8 - Oleic Acid 0 0 0 3.5 2.5 - Citric Acid 10 9 9.5 4 1 - C12 ⁇ 14 alkenyl substituted succinic acid 11 0 11.5 0 0 - Tartrate monosuccinate 0 15 0 17 20 - Diethoxylated poly (1,2 propylene terephtalate)

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