Progress and challenges in enzyme development for biomass utilization.

By Sandy Merino, J. Cherry. Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, 2007

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology

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Citations in the corpus

• Stimulation of lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysis by proteins of glycoside hydrolase family 61: structure and function of a large, enigmatic family. (2010, methodology): “Recently, we carried out a multidisciplinary study aimed at significantly reducing the enzyme dosage and cost for biomass-based ethanol (22, 24).”
• Pretreatment technologies for an efficient bioethanol production process based on enzymatic hydrolysis: A review. (2010, background): “Recent studies show the importance of new balanced enzymatic complexes containing optimal combinations to effectively modify the complex structure of lignocellulosic materials (García-Aparicio et al., 2007; Merino and Cherry, 2007).”
• Biology and biotechnology of Trichoderma (2010, background): “Today, 87% of energy used in the world comes from nonrenewable sources like natural gas, oil, and coal (Merino and Cherry 2007).”
• Improving Enzymes for Biomass Conversion: A Basic Research Perspective (2010, background): “The ultimate cost of enzymes is thus one of the major expenses hindering the development of an economically viable lignocellulosic ethanol industry [40].”
• Recent advances in pretreatment of lignocellulosic wastes and production of value added products (2009, background): “…significant effort has been expended to reduce the cost by focusing on improving the efficiency of known enzymes, identification of new, more active enzymes, creating enzyme mixes optimized for selected pretreated substrates, and minimization of enzyme production costs (Merino and Cherry, 2007).”
• Access to cellulose limits the efficiency of enzymatic hydrolysis: the role of amorphogenesis (2010, background): “Based on the lack of hydrolytic activity of GH61 on pretreated lignocellulosic substrates and on a variety of cellulosic and hemicellulosic model substrates, it was suggested that the cellulase-enhancing effect of such proteins is limited to substrates containing other cell wall-derived materials su”
• Novel enzymes for the degradation of cellulose (2012, background): “It is important to note that natural cellulolytic enzyme systems often contain several exo- and endoacting enzymes which may have varying preferences for varying forms of cellulose (crystalline versus amorphous; specific crystal faces [6,43-45]).”
• Commercial cellulosic ethanol: The role of plant-expressed enzymes (2009, background): “Although production costs are similar, 40 to 100 times more enzyme is needed to digest cellulose as compared to starch, on a mass basis (Merino and Cherry 2007).”
• Trichoderma reesei: A Fungal Enzyme Producer for Cellulosic Biofuels (2011, background): “This makes the enzyme mixtures a critical cost factor for commercially viable biofuel production (Merino and Cherry, 2007).”