Maria Cantarella

TL;DR: Steam‐exploded (SE) poplar wood biomass was hydrolyzed by means of a blend of Celluclast and Novozym cellulase complexes in the presence of the inhibiting compounds produced during the preceding steam‐explosion pretreatment process to show that untreated SE biomass during the enzymatic attack gives rise to a nonfermentable hydrolysate, which becomes fermentable when rinsed SE biomass is used.

TL;DR: In this article, two processes for ethanol production from wheat straw have been evaluated: separate hydrolysis and fermentation (SHF) and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation(SSF), and the results showed that the SSF process required a much shorter overall process time than the SHF process (96 h).

TL;DR: In this paper, different methods of detoxification were investigated for overcoming the toxicity problem in ethanol fermentation of steam-exploded (SE) poplar wood, and the adopted severity parameter for biomass pretreatment was log R 0 = 4.13.

TL;DR: Aspergillus niger K10 cultivated on 2-cyanopyridine produced high levels of an intracellular nitrilase, which was partially purified (18.6-fold) with a 24% yield, and revealed high homology with those of hsp60 and an ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme.

TL;DR: Peptide mass fingerprinting suggested a high similarity of the protein with the putative nitrilase from Gibberella moniliformis and electron microscopy revealed that the enzyme molecules associated into extended rods.