Y.-H. Percival Zhang

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review quantitative cellulase activity assays using soluble and insoluble substrates, and focus on their advantages and limitations, and hypothesize that continuous culture using insoluble cellulosic substrates could be a powerful selection tool for enriching beneficial cellulase mutants from the large library displayed on the cell surface.

TL;DR: A simple procedure for producing a regenerated amorphous cellulose (RAC), precipitated from the dissolved homogeneous cellulose rather than from the swollen heterogeneous cellulOSE is developed.

TL;DR: It is shown that improving the surface area accessible to cellulase is a more important factor for achieving a high sugar yield than delignification or CAC in pretreatment of switchgrass.

TL;DR: Enzymatic hydrogen production from starch and water mediated by 13 enzymes occurred at 30°C as expected, and the hydrogen yields were much higher than the theoretical limit of anaerobic fermentations.

TL;DR: This is the first cellulase kinetic model involving a single set of kinetic parameters that is successfully applied to a variety of cellulosic substrates, and the first that describes more than one behavior associated with enzymatic hydrolysis.