Researchers discover new enzyme paradigm for critical reaction in converting lignin to useful products
Green Car Congress
JUNE 28, 2018
Now, an international research team has discovered and characterized a new family of cytochrome P450 enzymes critical to improving the conversion of lignin. Demethylation is the simple chemistry of removing a methyl group, and the microbial conversion of lignin relies on this critical reaction. —Gregg Beckham. Houk, Gregg T.
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