The biofuel industry stands to benefit from the development of a new variety of yeast which produces ethanol from plant products more efficiently. Engineered by combining two existing yeast species, ...

Researchers have developed a new process that uses microwave flow reaction and recyclable solid catalysts to efficiently hydrolyze polysaccharides into simple sugars. The developed device utilizes a ...

Cel7A cellulase enzymes (gold) are inhibited when breaking down cellulose (green) by the product, cellobiose, at both the “front door" (1) and “back door" (2) of the Cel7A tunnel, and by two other ...

THE chemical evidence for the view that cellobiose is preformed in cellulose is considerably strengthened by some observations we have made on the acetolysis of trimethyl cellulose. Under mild ...

Tracking individual enzymes during the breakdown of cellulose for biofuel production has revealed how several roadblocks slow this process when using plant material that might otherwise go to waste.

14°→35° (Wasser). C. ist aus zwei β-1→4-glycosidisch verbundenen Molekülen D-Glucose aufgebaut. Es wird weder von Hefe vergoren, noch von Maltase gespalten. C. liegt als Disaccharideinheit den ...

Cellobiose, ein Disaccharid, das aus zwei β-1,4-glykosidisch verbundenen Glucose-Einheiten besteht. C. ist der Baustein von Cellulose und bildet sich als deren erstes Abbauprodukt. In freier Form ...

A simple diagram of the chemical process in the device developed by the research team. In their system, a solution of the disaccharide cellobiose (left) is passed through a sulfonated carbon catalyst ...

Cellulose, which helps give plant cell walls their rigid structure, holds promise as a renewable raw material for biofuels — if researchers can accelerate the production process. Compared to the ...