of UVA's Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics. "Understanding, on a molecular level, how cellulose is produced enables us to tailor its biosynthesis to alter the physical ...

Efforts to find ways to break down cellulose—the ... In a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry on August 18th, researchers from Japan's Institute for Molecular Science, National ...

I am a plant molecular biologist who is interested in understanding of how trees make cellulose. Simply put, cellulose is a chain of glucose molecules, and a large number of such cellulose chains ...

“The binding of proteins and enzymes to complex carbohydrates at the solid-liquid interface is a fundamentally important biological ... subtle and short-lived molecular interactions between proteins ...

But cellulose, the most abundant renewable polymer on the planet, is extremely recalcitrant to biological depolymerization ... classification because it has a copper atom embedded in its molecular ...

Daniel Voignac and colleagues propose a mosquito bite prevention method based on cellulose, an abundant biological molecule, readily available in wood industry waste, as well as local food and ...

Cellulose is a tough molecule by design ... Working on a farm as a biology undergrad one summer in the 1970s, Lynd noticed that a thermometer stuck in a compost pile registered 150 degrees ...

The bacteria's cellulose degradation ... In a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry on August 18th, researchers from Japan's Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural ...

But cellulose, the most abundant renewable polymer on the planet, is extremely recalcitrant to biological depolymerization ... a copper atom embedded in its molecular structure, which itself ...