Ethanol
by admin | January 4, 2010 - 12:38pm
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of Ross Walker and Amit Chourasia, SDSC, and Michael Crowley and Mark Nimlos, NREL. Funded by the Department of Energy's Biomass Program.
Scientists are improving cellulose conversion to ethanol using “virtual molecules” to show how the enzyme complex may change shape. The enzyme can straddle a broken cellulose chain, gaining a crucial foothold to digest cellulose into sugar molecules, which can then be fermented into ethanol.
Scientists are improving cellulose conversion to ethanol using “virtual molecules” to show how the enzyme complex may change shape. The enzyme can straddle a broken cellulose chain, gaining a crucial foothold to digest cellulose into sugar molecules, which can then be fermented into ethanol.
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