Cellulase Determination: Modifications to Make the Filter Paper Assay Easy, Fast, Practical and Efficient
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Cellulose is a major renewable form of carbohydrate, with approximately 1011 tons synthesized annually. It is an unbranched β-1,4-linked homopolymer of glucose [1], but cellulose samples of different origins vary widely in their chain lengths and in the degrees of interaction between chains. As a raw material, cellulose has currently the greatest potential to produce bioethanol; however, cellulose must be hydrolyzed to obtain fermentable sugars and the cellulolytic enzymes are central to the processing of biomass for bioethanol production.
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