Recent advances in microbial ecology and synthetic biology have the potential to mitigate
damage caused by anthropogenic activities that are deleteriously impacting Earth's soil …

Feedstock for biofuel synthesis is transitioning to lignocelluosic biomass to address criticism
over competition between first generation biofuels and food production. As microbial …

The ESTHER database, which is freely available via a web server (http://bioweb. ensam.
inra. fr/esther) and is widely used, is dedicated to proteins with an α/β-hydrolase fold, and it …

Metagenomics has made accessible an enormous reserve of global biochemical diversity.
To tap into this vast resource of novel enzymes, we have screened over one million clones …

This paper proposes a high-throughput, function-based screening approach of a
metagenomic library for isolating novel microbial enzymes by droplet-based microfluidics …

Bacterial lipolytic enzymes represent an important class of proteins: they provide their host
species with access to additional resources and have multiple applications within the …

Biocatalysts exerting activity against ester bonds have a broad range of applications in
modern biotechnology. Here, we have identified a new esterolytic enzyme by screening a …

Intense agricultural practices to meet rising food demands have caused ecosystem
perturbations. For sustainable crop production, biological agents are gaining attention, but …

Background Irpex lacteus is one of the most potent white rot fungi for biological pretreatment
of lignocellulose for second biofuel production. To elucidate the underlying molecular …

Family I. 3 lipase is distinguished from other families by the amino acid sequence and
secretion mechanism. Little is known about the evolutionary process driving these …