Chemical and biological catalysis for plastics recycling and upcycling

LD Ellis, NA Rorrer, KP Sullivan, M Otto… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Plastics pollution is causing an environmental crisis, prompting the development of new
approaches for recycling, and upcycling. Here, we review challenges and opportunities in …

Cellulosomes: bacterial nanomachines for dismantling plant polysaccharides

L Artzi, EA Bayer, S Moraïs - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2017 - nature.com
Cellulosomes are multienzyme complexes that are produced by anaerobic cellulolytic
bacteria for the degradation of lignocellulosic biomass. They comprise a complex of …

The cellulosomes: multienzyme machines for degradation of plant cell wall polysaccharides

EA Bayer, JP Belaich, Y Shoham… - Annu. Rev. Microbiol …, 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The discrete multicomponent, multienzyme cellulosome complex of anaerobic
cellulolytic bacteria provides enhanced synergistic activity among the different resident …

Cellulase, clostridia, and ethanol

AL Demain, M Newcomb, JHD Wu - Microbiology and molecular …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Biomass conversion to ethanol as a liquid fuel by the thermophilic and anaerobic clostridia
offers a potential partial solution to the problem of the world's dependence on petroleum for …

Cellulosomes: highly efficient nanomachines designed to deconstruct plant cell wall complex carbohydrates

CMGA Fontes, HJ Gilbert - Annual review of biochemistry, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Cellulosomes can be described as one of nature's most elaborate and highly efficient
nanomachines. These cell bound multienzyme complexes orchestrate the deconstruction of …

[HTML][HTML] Bioengineering bacterial outer membrane vesicles as vaccine platform

MJH Gerritzen, DE Martens, RH Wijffels… - Biotechnology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are naturally non-replicating, highly immunogenic
spherical nanoparticles derived from Gram-negative bacteria. OMVs from pathogenic …

Cellulosomes: plant-cell-wall-degrading enzyme complexes

RH Doi, A Kosugi - Nature reviews microbiology, 2004 - nature.com
Cellulose, the main structural component of plant cell walls, is the most abundant
carbohydrate polymer in nature. Although abundant, it is extremely difficult to degrade, as it …

HADDOCK versus HADDOCK: new features and performance of HADDOCK2. 0 on the CAPRI targets

SJ De Vries, ADJ Van Dijk, M Krzeminski… - Proteins: structure …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Here we present version 2.0 of HADDOCK, which incorporates considerable improvements
and new features. HADDOCK is now able to model not only protein–protein complexes but …

Artificial Multienzyme Scaffolds: Pursuing in Vitro Substrate Channeling with an Overview of Current Progress

GA Ellis, WP Klein, G Lasarte-Aragones, M Thakur… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Artificial multienzyme scaffolds are being developed for in vitro cascaded biocatalytic activity
and, in particular, accessing substrate channeling. This review covers progress in this field …

pyDock: Electrostatics and desolvation for effective scoring of rigid‐body protein–protein docking

TMK Cheng, TL Blundell… - … Structure, Function, and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The accurate scoring of rigid‐body docking orientations represents one of the major
difficulties in protein–protein docking prediction. Other challenges are the development of …