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SUBMITTER: Lu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1637554 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lu Yanpin Y Zhang Yi-Heng Percival YH Lynd Lee R LR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20061023 44
Specific cellulose hydrolysis rates (g of cellulose/g of cellulase per h) were shown to be substantially higher (2.7- to 4.7-fold) for growing cultures of Clostridium thermocellum as compared with purified cellulase preparations from this organism in controlled experiments involving both batch and continuous cultures. This "enzyme-microbe synergy" requires the presence of metabolically active cellulolytic microbes, is not explained by removal of hydrolysis products from the bulk fermentation bro ...[more]