Challenges in cellulase bioprocess for biofuel applications

RR Singhania, HA Ruiz, MK Awasthi, CD Dong… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasing population and industrialization caused increased demand for liquid fossil fuels
which in turn increases the greenhouse gas emission. Bioethanol produced from …

Technological road map of cellulase: a comprehensive outlook to structural, computational, and industrial applications

R Ranjan, R Rai, SB Bhatt, P Dhar - Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellulases, a group of enzymes capable of degrading cellulose, play a crucial role in the
bioconversion of cellulosic biomass, making them invaluable in various industries such as …

Enzyme engineering and its industrial applications

I Victorino da Silva Amatto… - Biotechnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, there has been an increase in the demand for enzymes with modified activity,
specificity, and stability. Enzyme engineering is an important tool to meet the demand for …

Thermostable cellulose saccharifying microbial enzymes: Characteristics, recent advances and biotechnological applications

A Dadwal, S Sharma, T Satyanarayana - International Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cellulases play a promising role in the bioconversion of renewable lignocellulosic biomass
into fermentable sugars which are subsequently fermented to biofuels and other value …

Engineering robust cellulases for tailored lignocellulosic degradation cocktails

F Contreras, S Pramanik, A M. Rozhkova… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lignocellulosic biomass is a most promising feedstock in the production of second-
generation biofuels. Efficient degradation of lignocellulosic biomass requires a synergistic …

DeepTP: a deep learning model for thermophilic protein prediction

J Zhao, W Yan, Y Yang - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Thermophilic proteins have important value in the fields of biopharmaceuticals and enzyme
engineering. Most existing thermophilic protein prediction models are based on traditional …

Engineering interventions in industrial filamentous fungal cell factories for biomass valorization

A Madhavan, KB Arun, R Sindhu, AA Jose… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Filamentous fungi possess versatile capabilities for synthesizing a variety of valuable bio
compounds, including enzymes, organic acids and small molecule secondary metabolites …

Progress in ameliorating beneficial characteristics of microbial cellulases by genetic engineering approaches for cellulose saccharification

A Dadwal, S Sharma, T Satyanarayana - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Lignocellulosic biomass is a renewable and sustainable energy source. Cellulases are the
enzymes that cleave β-1, 4-glycosidic linkages in cellulose to liberate sugars that can be …

Microbial cellulases–An update towards its surface chemistry, genetic engineering and recovery for its biotechnological potential

M Paul, S Mohapatra, PKD Mohapatra, H Thatoi - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The inherent resistance of lignocellulosic biomass makes it impervious for industrially
important enzymes such as cellulases to hydrolyze cellulose. Further, the competitive …

Bioconversion of renewable plant biomass. Second-generation biofuels: Raw materials, biomass pretreatment, enzymes, processes, and cost analysis

AP Sinitsyn, OA Sinitsyna - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2021 - Springer
The review discusses various aspects of renewable plant biomass conversion and
production of the second-generation biofuels, including the types of plant biomass, its …