Lignocellulose Biodegradation

Hardback  416 pages,  ISBN 0841238766      £102.00

Contents

Preface

• 1. Lignocellulose Biodegradation and Applications in Biotechnology , Badal C. Saha
• 2. Pretreatment for Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Used Newspaper , Sung Bae Kim and Jin Won Chun
• 3. Ethanol from Lignocellulosic Materials: Pretreatment, Acid and Enzymatic Hydrolyses, and Fermentation , Mohammad J. Taherzadeh and Claes Niklasson
• 4. Recent Progress in Transformation of Lignocellulosics to Fuels and Chemicals by Supercritical Water Technology , Katsunobu Ehara and Shiro Saka
• 5. Thermochemical Treatment, Separation, and Conversion of Corn Fiber to Ethanol , Charles Abbas, Kyle Beery, Eric Dennison, and Pam Corrington
• 6. Unconventional Relationships for Hemicellulose Hydrolysis and Subsequent Cellulose Digestion , Bin Yang, Matthew C. Gray, Chaogang Liu, Todd A. Lloyd, Suzanne L. Stuhler, Alvin O. Converse, and Charles E. Wyman
• 7. Laccase Modification of the Physical Properties of Bark and Pulp of Loblolly Pine and Spruce Pulp , William Kenealy, John Klungness, Mandla Tshabalala, Eric Horn, Masood Akhtar, Roland Gleisner, and Gisela Buschle-Diller
• 8. Degradation of Wood and Pulp by Three Fungi, Pycnoporus cinnabarinus, Trichonphyton rebrum LKY-7, and Trichophyton rebrum LSK-27 , Xinglian Geng, Hyunchae Jung, and Kaichang Li
• 9. Productive Cellulase Adsorption on Cellulose , Hanshu Ding and Feng Xu
• 10. Cloning and Heterologous Expression of the Gene Encoding a Family 7 Glycosyl Hydrolase from Penicillium funiculosum , Yat-Chen Chou, William S. Adney, Stephen R. Decker, John O. Baker, Glenna Kunkel, David W. Templeton, and Michael E. Himmel
• 11. Effect of Rational Mutagenesis of Selected Cohesin Residues on the High-Affinity Cohesin-Dockerin Interaction , Tal Handelsan, Adva Mechaly, Yoav Barak, David Nakar, Raphael Lamed, Yuval Shoham, and Edward A. Bayer
• 12. Structure-Reactivity Studies of Trichoderma reesei Cellobiohydrolase Cel7A , Kathleen Piens, Jerry Stahlberg, Wim Nerinckx, Tuula T. Teeri, and Marc Claeyssens
• 13. Protein Engineering of Xylanases , Dawn E. Stephens, Kugen Permaul, Bernard A. Prior, and Suren Singh
• 14. Microbial a-Glucuronidases , B.J.M. de Wet and B.A. Prior
• 15. Microbial Feruloyl Esterases , Karl Rumbold, George Gubitz, and Bernard A. Prior
• 16. Cellobiose Dehydrogenase: An Extracellular Flavocytochrome from the Phytopathogenic Basidiomycete Sclerotium (Athelia) rolfsii , Dietmar Haltrich, Roland Ludwig, and Marcel Zamocky
• 17. Improvement of the Enzyme Character for Lignocellulose Degradation by Gene Manipulation , Kiyoshi Hayashi, Mamoru Nishimoto, Farooqahmed S. Kittur, and Motomitsu Kitaoka
• 18. Biotechnological Production of Xylitol from Lignocellulosic Materials , Maria G.A. Felipe
• 19. Biobleaching Efficiency of Aspergillus oryzae Xylanases Produced by Solid Substrate Fermentation , Judit Szendefy, George Szakacs, and Lew Christopher
• 20. Laccase: A Harbinger to Kraft Pulping , T.J. Dyer and A.J. Ragauskas
• 21. Biocatalytic Conversion of Renewable Feedstocks to Industrial Chemicals , Manoj Kumar, Jeff Pucci, Gopal Chotani, and Karl Sanford

Author Index