The kinesin-13 class of motors catalyses microtubule depolymerisation by bending tubulins at microtubule ends. Depolymerisation activity is intrinsic to the kinesin-13 motor core but the activity of the core alone is very low compared with that of constructs that also contain a conserved neck sequence. The full-length dimeric motor is an efficient depolymeriser and also diffuses along the micro...

Pyrolysis oil from lignocellulosic biomass can be fractionated into a lignin and sugar fraction. We here provide review on the structure, properties, depolymerisation strategies applications for pyrolytic in framework of biorefinery.

The reaction of N-heterocyclic carbenes with polyaminoboranes [MeNH-BH2]n or [NH2-BH2]n at 20 °C led to depolymerisation and the formation of labile, monomeric aminoborane-NHC adducts, RNH-BH2-NHC (R = Me or H); a similar NHC adduct of Ph2N=BCl2 was characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction.

Estimating reaction rates and size distributions of protein polymers is an important step for understanding the mechanisms of protein misfolding and aggregation, a key feature for amyloid diseases. This study aims at setting this framework problem when the experimental measurements consist in the time-dynamics of a moment of the population (i.e. for instance the total polymerised mass, as in Th...

Beyond a solvent: The roles of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride in the acid-catalysis for cellulose depolymerisation Heitor Fernando Nunes de Oliveira,a Christophe Farès,a Roberto Rinaldia,b,* Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering, South Kensington Campus, SW7 AZ2 Lond...