c-LEcta GmbH products

An innovative functional sugar for more easily digestible food. Cellobiose occurs naturally as a basic component of cellulose, a substance produced by plants. As a so-called functional sugar, cellobiose has a number of interesting properties that make it suitable for use in foods.

A thermoactive enzyme for the reduction of acrylamide formation in foods. c-LEcta developed a thermoactive asparaginase and licensed it to Novozymes, who distributes it under the brand name Acrylaway HighT. The enzyme is added to foods as a process aid and reduces the formation of the potentially carcinogenic compound acrylamide. Asparaginase cleaves the molecule asparagine, which is transformed in heated foods into the potentially carcinogenic substance acrylamide by means of the Maillard reaction. The enzyme is added to foods to prevent or reduce the formation of acrylamide.

NuCLEANase is a highly active nuclease from Serratia marcescens produced in a patented process based on a GRAS strain Bacillus sp. NuCLEANase degrades all forms of DNA and RNA into smaller nucleotides of about 5-8 base pairs.

For producing specialty chemicals and APIs. With the c-LEcta Plug & Play Biocats®, we offer a selection of industrially relevant and prequalified enzymes. We developed this specific group of biocatalysts through extensive biodiversity screening and enzyme engineering to comply with industry requirements.

DENARASE is a recombinantly produced endonuclease from Serratia marcescens. It is applied for the degradation of undesired DNA and RNA during the manufacturing of biopharmaceutical products – namely viral vectors.