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ReviewJournal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology2008

Bifunctional xylanases and their potential use in biotechnology.

Rakhee Khandeparker, Mondher Th Numan

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Review in Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 126 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rakhee KhandeparkerNational Institute of Oceanography, Goa, Dona Paula 403004, India. rakhee@nio.org
Mondher Th Numan
National Institute of Oceanography · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant cell walls are comprised of cellulose, hemicellulose and other polymers that are intertwined. This complex structure acts as a barrier to degradation by single enzyme. Thus, a cocktail consisting of bi and multifunctional xylanases and xylan debranching enzymes is most desired combination for the efficient utilization of these complex materials. Xylanases have prospective applications in the food, animal feed, and paper and pulp industries. Furthermore, in order to enhance feed nutrient digestibility and to improve wheat flour quality xylanase along with other glycohydrolases are often used. For these applications, a bifunctional enzyme is undoubtedly much more valuable as compared to monofunctional enzyme. The natural diversity of enzymes provides some candidates with evolved bifunctional activity. Nevertheless most resulted from the in vitro fusion of individual enzymes. Here we present bifunctional xylanases, their evolution, occurrence, molecular biology and potential uses in biotechnology.

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BiotechnologyXylosidasesXylosidases

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PMID18365260
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