What is it about?
With the advent of genome level sequencing somebody has to identify the enzymes the bacteria make. This helps us better understand a bacterium like Cellulomonas which can degrade polysaccharides and provide feed stocks for bio-products research.
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Why is it important?
30 years ago work on Cellulomonas cellulases was started, but many of the accessory enzymes were not identified. This paper shows our recent work on looking for the enzyme which breaks down cellobiose derived from cellulose hydrolysis - but our results show we need to adjust our thinking.
Perspectives
This paper was an amazing amount work by Juan Gao. We developed the strategy for this work, and worked together to analyze the data, but she was responsible for all of the lab work.
Professor Warren Wakarchuk
University of Alberta
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This page is a summary of: Characterization of Five -Glycoside Hydrolases from Cellulomonas fimi ATCC 484, Journal of Bacteriology, September 2014, ASM Journals,
DOI: 10.1128/jb.02194-14.
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