New insights have been gained into how glycosylation -- the natural attachment of sugars to proteins -- affects a key cellulase enzyme. This work could be used to improve enzyme performance to better ...

Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that an enzyme from a microorganism first found in the Valley of Geysers on the Kamchatka Peninsula ...

For decades, researchers thought that wood-feeding insects relied entirely on their helpful microbes to break down the tough cell walls of plants. Recently, cellulase, an enzyme that digests the cell ...