2. Academic Validation
  3. Microbial hemicellulases

Microbial hemicellulases

  • Curr Opin Microbiol. 2003 Jun;6(3):219-28. doi: 10.1016/s1369-5274(03)00056-0.
Dalia Shallom 1,  Yuval Shoham
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Affiliation

  • 1 Department of Food Engineering and Biotechnology and Institute of Catalysis, Science and Technology, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel.
PMID: 12831897 DOI: 10.1016/s1369-5274(03)00056-0
Abstract

Hemicellulases are a diverse group of Enzymes that hydrolyze hemicelluloses--one of the most abundant groups of polysaccharide in nature. These Enzymes have many biotechnological applications and their structure/function relationships are a subject of intense research. During the past year, new high-resolution structures of catalytic and non-catalytic domains of hemicellulases have been elucidated, and, together with biochemical studies, they reveal the principles of catalysis and specificity for these Enzymes.

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