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An optimized high throughput platform, from genetic transformation to fermentation, to screen for secreted laccases in Aspergillus niger

Laure Marie Colette Leynaud-Kieffer Curran

Many challenges are faced in the conversion of biomass into advanced biofuels, one of which is finding the correct organism for the job. The filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger has been chosen as a biocatalyst for cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin degr ...

EPFL2022

Dual Valorization of Lignin as a Versatile and Renewable Matrix for Enzyme Immobilization and (Flow) Bioprocess Engineering

Jeremy Luterbacher, Jean Thierry C Behaghel de Bueren, Stefania Bertella

Lignin has emerged as an attractive alternative in the search for more eco-friendly and less costly materials for enzyme immobilization. In this work, the terephthalic aldehyde-stabilization of lignin is carried out during its extraction to develop a serie ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Proprotein Convertases (PCs) constitute a family of serine proteases that activate various hormones, growth factors and cell adhesion molecules by mediating endoproteolytic cleavage of their secreted inactive precursors during their transit in the secret ...

EPFL2018

PCTAIRE-1 [also known as cyclin-dependent kinase 16 (CDK16)] is implicated in various physiological processes such as neurite outgrowth and vesicle trafficking; however, its molecular regulation and downstream targets are largely unknown. Cyclin Y has rece ...

Portland Press Ltd2015

B-12-dependent enzymes employ radical species with exceptional prowess to catalyze some of the most chemically challenging, thermodynamically unfavorable reactions. However, dealing with highly reactive intermediates is an extremely demanding task, requiri ...

2014

In Vitro Pancreas Organogenesis from Dispersed Mouse Embryonic Progenitors

Filippo De Franceschi, Anne Grapin-Botton, Chiara Greggio

The pancreas is an essential organ that regulates glucose homeostasis and secretes digestive enzymes. Research on pancreas embryogenesis has led to the development of protocols to produce pancreatic cells from stem cells. The whole embryonic organ can be c ...

Journal Of Visualized Experiments2014

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Nowadays, gold compounds occupy a relevant position constituting a promising class of experimental anticancer metallodrugs. Several research efforts have been devoted to the investigations of the pharmacological properties of gold(I) complexes bearing phos ...

Elsevier Science Inc2013

Structural Insights into the Specificity of Xyn10B from Paenibacillus barcinonensis and Its Improved Stability by Forced Protein Evolution

Pierre Vogel

Paenibacillus barcinonensis is a soil bacterium bearing a complex set of enzymes for xylan degradation, including several secreted enzymes and Xyn10B, one of the few intracellular xylanases reported to date. The crystal structure of Xyn10B has been determi ...

2010

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Proteolysis with proteases preloaded within nanopores of porous material is a very fast process, where proteins can be digested in minutes compared to the conventional bulk enzyme reactions taking place over hours. To model this surprising phenomenon, a mo ...

American Chemical Society2009

Switch-peptides as folding precursors in self-assembling peptides and amyloid fibrillogenesis

Hilal Lashuel, Adrian Schmid, Richard Alan Mimna, Karine Murat, Marie-Stéphanie Camus, Jérémy Bérard

The study of conformational transitions of peptides has obtained considerable attention recently because of their importance as a mol. key event in a variety of degenerative diseases. However, the study of peptide self-assembly into beta-sheets and amyloid ...

2007

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