Prokazyme.com Information

Prokazyme develops enzymes from the natural diversity of various extreme environments specializing in geothermal microbial ecosystems in Iceland through exploitations of the genomes of thermophilic bacteria and bacteriophages. The company has various collaborations with other research-oriented companies and academic institutions, it is active in several research consortia in EU-funded collaborative research projects and is offering academic cooperation agreements for marketing of enzymes developed by academic partners. Prokazyme mainly sells novel enzymes for research, diagnostics and industrial testing purposes through its website at www.prokazyme.com. The products include enzymes active on polysaccharides, such as laminarinase, rhamnosidases, lichanase, glucansucrase, beta-glucosidase and a thermostable beta-1,6-endoglucanase (pustulanase, used in standard assay for beta-glucan in Baker’s yeast) as well as enzymes active on nucleic acids, such as DNA ligases and polynucleotide kinase, and other specialty enzymes.