title: Microbial hemicellulases.
abstract: Hemicellulases are a diverse group of enzymes that hydrolyze hemicelluloses--one of the most abundant groups of polysaccharide in nature. These enzymes have many biotechnological applications and their structure/function relationships are a subject of intense research. During the past year, new high-resolution structures of catalytic and non-catalytic domains of hemicellulases have been elucidated, and, together with biochemical studies, they reveal the principles of catalysis and specificity for these enzymes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Engineering and Biotechnology and Institute of Catalysis, Science and Technology, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel.
authors.forename: Dalia
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shallom
authors.forename: Yuval
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shoham
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000201:enzymology*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000639:trends; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry*; D007218:Industrial Microbiology / Q000639:trends*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; C023305:hemicellulase