To enhance the reducing sugar yield in enzymatic hydrolysis, various factors (NaOH concentration, solid content and pre-treatment time) that affect the pre-treatment process were investigated and ...

Enzyme-mediated hydrolysis of starch is central to the generation of simple sugars for food, beverage and biofuel applications. This process typically employs a consortium of glycoside hydrolases, ...

A new method that successfully designs serine hydrolase enzymes capable of catalyzing ester hydrolysis with high efficiency, demonstrates a computational approach for creating de novo enzymes that ...

The fluid-holding device designed by Holman and Zhao, which is held in front of an infrared beam to study the change in atomic bonds in sample of molecules. Research from Lawrence Berkeley National ...

While protein design is experiencing a period of rapid development and advancement, there’s one particularly challenging class of proteins that’s giving researchers a hard time: enzymes. Now ...