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Cellulose, cellulases and cellulosomes
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A combination of molecular genetic, biochemical, chemical, crystallographic and microscopic techniques are paving the way for new insights into both the structure of cellulose and the mechanisms of its hydrolysis.About:
This article is published in Current Opinion in Structural Biology.The article was published on 1998-10-01. It has received 563 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cellulosomes & Cellulosome.read more
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Microbial cellulose utilization: fundamentals and biotechnology.
TL;DR: A concluding discussion identifies unresolved issues pertaining to microbial cellulose utilization, suggests approaches by which such issues might be resolved, and contrasts a microbially oriented cellulose hydrolysis paradigm to the more conventional enzymatically oriented paradigm in both fundamental and applied contexts.
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Fermentative butanol production by clostridia
TL;DR: This article reviews biotechnological production of butanol by clostridia and some relevant fermentation and downstream processes and the strategies for strain improvement by metabolic engineering and further requirements to make fermentative butanol production a successful industrial process.
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The Cellulosomes: Multienzyme Machines for Degradation of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides
TL;DR: The recently described three-dimensional crystal structure of the cohesin-dockerin heterodimer sheds light on the critical amino acids that contribute to this high-affinity protein-protein interaction.
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Biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass--An overview.
TL;DR: This review presents an overview of various aspects of biological pretreatment, enzymes involved in the process, parameters affecting biological pret treatment as well as future perspectives.
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A review of lignocellulose bioconversion using enzymatic hydrolysis and synergistic cooperation between enzymes--factors affecting enzymes, conversion and synergy.
J.S. Van Dyk,Brett I. Pletschke +1 more
TL;DR: This review examines the enzymes required to degrade various components of lignocellulose and the impact of pretreatments on the lignosic substrates and the enzyme required for degradation and the effect of and interaction between different hemicellulases on complex substrates.
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Structural and sequence-based classification of glycoside hydrolases.
TL;DR: The diversity of oligo- and polysaccharides provides an abundance of biological roles for these carbohydrates, and the enzymes hydrolysing these compounds, the glycoside hydrolases, mediate a wealth of biological functions.
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Cellulose: the structure slowly unravels
TL;DR: A review of the information gathered on cellulose structure over the last few decades can be found in this paper, where the authors attempt to bring together basic and complex information which has been gathered on the structure of native cellulose.
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Native cellulose: a composite of two distinct crystalline forms.
TL;DR: Multiplicities in the resonances of chemically equivalent carbons, which appear in the solid-state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of native celluloses, have been examined at high resolution and are consistent with the existence of two distinct crystalline forms.
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Electron diffraction study on the two crystalline phases occurring in native cellulose from an algal cell wall
TL;DR: The green alga Microdictyon tenuius exhibits two distinct crystalline phases: the major phase has a one-chain, triclinic (P1) structure with unit cell parameters of a=0.674 nm, b= 0.593 nm, c (chain axis)=1.036 nm, α=117°, β=113°, and γ=81° as mentioned in this paper.
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The structure of native cellulose
K. H. Gardner,John Blackwell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the X-ray diffraction data for specimens from the sea alga Valonia ventricosa was used to show a preference for a parallel chain structure with specific chain polarity with respect to the c axis.