WoodZymes

The WoodZymes
Project is a Research & Innovation Action funded by the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking,

a Public-Private Partnership between the EU (under H2020 framework programme) and the Bio-based Industries Consortium. Within this project, eleven participants from four European countries join efforts to develop and provide the wood industries with “WOOD transforming enZYMES” able to work under extreme operation conditions (i.e. extremozymes).

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DR MARTA PÉREZ-BOADA
E-mail: MPBoada@cib.csic.es
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Biological Research Centre (CIB)
Calle Ramiro de Maeztu 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
Phone: +34 918373112
Fax: +34 915360432
Mobile: +34 650080476
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2021-03-02

Partner IATA-CSIC speaks about new patented ‘super enzyme’ for the paper industry at Innovation Origins
Julio Polaina and David Talens-Perales, researchers of IATA-CSIC institute in Valencia, Spain, explain how they discovered this new biocatalyst bearing outstanding extremophilic [...]

2021-01-26

NEW PAPER OUT!! Protein Engineering Approaches to Enhance Fungal Laccase Production in S. cerevisiae
Enzyme directed evolution is a powerful technique to design efficient and robust biocatalysts for the industry. Through iterations of mutagenesis and selection it is possible [...]

2021-01-15

ISWFPC 2021 - Rescheduled to November 15-17, 2021
The 21st International Symposium on Wood, Fiber and Pulping Chemistry (ISWFPC) will take place from November 15, 2021 to November 17, 2021 at Talley Student Union in North [...]

2020-12-16

NEW PAPER OUT!! In search of a "superxylanase"
Our partner IATA-CSIC has recently published an article in Biotechnology for Biofuels, dealing with the search for new xylanases with extremophilic properties using bioinformatic [...]

2020-12-14

NEW POST!! Enzyme directed evolution for the design of industrial biocatalysts
Directed molecular evolution is a state-or-the-art biotech tool used to confer enzymes new features, such as new or improved catalytic activities and/or increased stability [...]

2020-11-26

Partner CTP launched brand new website... featuring WoodZymes
Consortium member Centre Technique du Papier (CTP) has recently launched its new website (https://www.webctp.com/en). A nice post about WoodZymes is included in the Collaborative [...]

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Aza P, de Salas F, Molpeceres G, Rodríguez-Escribano D, de la Fuente I, Camarero S
(2021) Protein Engineering Approaches to Enhance Fungal Laccase Production in S. cerevisiae Laccases secreted by saprotrophic basidiomycete fungi are versatile biocatalysts able to oxidize a wide range of aromatic compounds using oxygen as the sole requirement. Saccharomyces [...]

Talens-Perales D, Sánchez-Torres P, Marín-Navarro J, Polaina J
(2020) In silico screening and experimental analysis of family GH11 xylanases for applications under conditions of alkaline pH and high temperature Background Xylanases are one of the most extensively used enzymes for biomass digestion. However, in many instances, their use is limited by poor performance under the conditions [...]

de Salas F, Aza P, Gilabert JF, Santiago G, Kılıç S, Sener ME, Vind J, Guallar V, Martínez AT, Camarero S
(2019) Engineering of a fungal laccase to develop a robust, versatile and highly-expressed biocatalyst for sustainable chemistry Fungal laccases can play an important role as biocatalysts in organic chemistry to replace chemical synthesis. In a previous work we synthesized conductive polyaniline using [...]

de Salas F, Cañadas R, Santiago G, Virseda-Jerez A, Vind J, Gentili P, Martínez AT, Guallar V, Muñoz IG, Camarero S
(2019) Structural and biochemical insights into an engineered high-redox potential laccase overproduced in Aspergillus Fungal laccases have great potential as biocatalysts oxidizing a variety of aromatic compounds using oxygen as co-substrate. Here, the crystal structure of 7D5 laccase (PDB [...]

Pardo I, Rodríguez-Escribano D, Aza P, de Salas F, Martínez AT, Camarero S
(2018) A highly stable laccase obtained by swapping the second cupredoxin domain The robustness of a high-redox potential laccase has been enhanced by swapping its second cupredoxin domain with that from another fungal laccase, which introduced a pool [...]

Ayuso-Fernández I, Ruiz-Dueñas FJ, Martínez AT
(2018) Evolutionary convergence in lignin-degrading enzymes We analyze the molecular mechanisms that led to the rise of a powerful strategy for lignin degradation (i.e., the formation of a solvent-exposed tryptophanyl radical capable [...]

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Project Secretariat
DR MARTA PÉREZ-BOADA
E-mail: MPBoada@cib.csic.es
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Biological Research Centre (CIB)
Calle Ramiro de Maeztu 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
Phone: +34 918373112
Fax: +34 915360432
Mobile: +34 650080476
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A team of research and industrial partners from Spain, France, Finland and Portugal.
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From forest biomass to phenolic and sugar-derived products: discover the WoodZymes concept.
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