The structural changes in crystalline cellulose and effects on enzymatic digestibility |
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Authors: | Yoshiki Horikawa Naoya Konakahara Tomoya Imai Abe Kentaro Yoshinori Kobayashi Junji Sugiyama |
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Institution: | 1. Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan;2. Tsukuba Research Laboratory, Japan Bioindustry Association, Ibaragi, Japan |
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Abstract: | The enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose I achieves almost complete digestion when sufficient enzyme loading as much as 20 mg/g-substrate is applied. However, the yield of digestion reaches the limit when the enzyme dosage is decreased to 2 mg/g-substrate. Therefore, we have performed three pretreatments such as mercerization, dissolution into phosphoric acid and EDA treatment. Transformation into cellulose II hydrate by mercerization and dissolution into phosphoric acid were not sufficient because substrate changed to highly crystalline structure during saccharification. On the other hand, in the case of crystalline conversion of cellulose I to IIII by EDA, almost perfect digestion was achieved even in enzyme loading as small as 0.5 mg/g-substrate, furthermore, hydrolyzed residue was typical cellulose I. The structural analysis of substrate after saccharification provides an insight into relationships between cellulose crystalline property and cellulase toward better enzymatic digestion. |
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Keywords: | Crystalline polymorph Enzymatic hydrolysis Susceptibility FTIR spectroscopy |
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