Team finds a new cellulose digestion mechanism by a fast-eating enzyme
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
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 in Russia in 1990 can digest cellulose almost twice as fast as the current leading component cellulase enzyme on the market.