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Neil R. Gilkes
Researcher at University of British Columbia
Publications - 111
Citations - 11881
Neil R. Gilkes is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cellulase & Cellulose. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 111 publications receiving 11475 citations.
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Domains in microbial beta-1, 4-glycanases: sequence conservation, function, and enzyme families.
TL;DR: The beta-1, 4-glycanases appear to have arisen by the shuffling of a relatively small number of progenitor sequences, and some of the enzymes contain repeated sequences up to 150 amino acids in length.
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Cellulose hydrolysis by bacteria and fungi
TL;DR: The chapter focuses on the recent advances in understanding the structural and functional organization of individual cellulases, their regulation, and the ways in which the multiple enzyme components of cellulolytic systems cooperate.
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Inhibition of cellulase, xylanase and β-glucosidase activities by softwood lignin preparations
Alex Berlin,Mikhail Yu. Balakshin,Neil R. Gilkes,John F. Kadla,Vera Maximenko,Satoshi Kubo,John N. Saddler +6 more
TL;DR: This study examines the inhibition of seven cellulase preparations, three xylanase preparations and a beta-glucosidase preparation by two purified, particulate lignin preparations derived from softwood using an organosolv pretreatment process followed by enzymatic hydrolysis.
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Organosolv Ethanol Lignin from Hybrid Poplar as a Radical Scavenger: Relationship between Lignin Structure, Extraction Conditions, and Antioxidant Activity
TL;DR: Regression models were developed to enable the quantitative prediction of lignin characteristics and antioxidant activity based on the processing conditions and indicated that the lignins with more phenolic hydroxyl groups, less aliphatic hydroxym groups, low molecular weight, and narrow polydispersity showed high antioxidant activity.
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Biorefining of softwoods using ethanol organosolv pulping: preliminary evaluation of process streams for manufacture of fuel-grade ethanol and co-products.
Xuejun Pan,Claudio Arato,Neil R. Gilkes,David J. Gregg,Warren Mabee,Kendall Pye,Zhizhuang Xiao,Xiao Zhang,John N. Saddler +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Lignol process was used to extract residual lignin from mixed softwood pulp and then used for bio-convincing the cellulose to glucose and subsequent fermentation to ethanol.