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Svein Jarle Horn

Researcher at Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Publications -  138
Citations -  11393

Svein Jarle Horn is an academic researcher from Norwegian University of Life Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biogas & Cellulase. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 123 publications receiving 9511 citations. Previous affiliations of Svein Jarle Horn include Novozymes & Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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An oxidative enzyme boosting the enzymatic conversion of recalcitrant polysaccharides.

TL;DR: An enzyme is described that acts on the surface of crystalline chitin, where it introduces chain breaks and generates oxidized chain ends, thus promoting further degradation by chit inases, demonstrating the existence of a hitherto unknown enzyme activity.
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Novel enzymes for the degradation of cellulose

TL;DR: This work describes recent developments in enzyme technology for conversion of cellulose, the most abundant, homogeneous and recalcitrant polysaccharide in lignocellulosic biomass, and focuses on a recently discovered new type of enzymes currently classified as CBM33 and GH61 that catalyze oxidative cleavage ofpolysaccharides.
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Oxidative cleavage of polysaccharides by monocopper enzymes depends on H2O2.

TL;DR: The use of H2O2 by a monocopper enzyme that is otherwise cofactor-free offers new perspectives regarding the mode of action of copper enzymes, and these findings have implications for the enzymatic conversion of biomass in Nature and in industrial biorefining.
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Discovery of LPMO activity on hemicelluloses shows the importance of oxidative processes in plant cell wall degradation

TL;DR: It is demonstrated for the first time that an LPMO from Neurospora crassa, NcLPMO9C, indeed degrades various hemicelluloses, in particular xyloglucan, and this finding dramatically widens the scope of LPMOs and oxidative processes in plant cell wall degradation and biorefining.
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Towards a more sustainable municipal wastewater treatment system

TL;DR: In this article, a new concept is discussed along general lines, which consists of a first stage in which a maximal sludge production is achieved, in this way COD is removed as sludge and aeration requirements minimized.