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Volume 7, Issue 1 (Suppl) J Biotechnol Biomater
ISSN: 2155-952X JBTBM, an open access journal
Enzymology & Mol. Biology 2017
Biotechnology Congress 2017
March 20-21, 2017
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Biotechnology And Biotech Industries Meet
Enzymology and Molecular Biology
Developing the bio-economy: Fast track discovery of new enzymes for efficient and value added
biomass conversion
Anew fast track enzyme discovery technology platform has been developed. It differentiates from existing approaches as it
is non-alignment based and facilitates prediction of function of the enzyme directly from the (genome) sequence. New
enzymes and enzyme-based processes are being developed for producing biomass-based food ingredients, feed additives,
health-promoting products, components for skincare and wound healing as well as fertilizer, fibers and building blocks for
chemicals. Enzyme discoveries of relevance for the following types of biomass feed stock have recently been made: The green
biorefinery, making value added products from green grass, clover, etc. Seaweed biomass, from species of brown algae, growing
meters high in temperate/colder waters, have already now been documented to hold several components with potentials for
being developed into new value chains. Feather is composed of the proteinaceous, highly recalcitrant keratin. It has been
shown that a blend composed of three specific types of fungal enzymes can be used for decomposing the keratin into peptides
and amino acids. Interestingly, the keratin-degrading fungi in these studies showed four different LPMO genes, (Lytic
Polysaccharide Monooxygenases) which may be directly involved in breaking down the keratin. Enzymes of relevance for
improved processing of fish skin collagen are being studied in the project Collagen Hydrolysate funded as a Nordic Innovation
program.
Biography
Lene Lange is a Professor at the Center for Bioprocess Engineering, DTU Chemical Engineering, Denmark. She has held Research Director Positions in both industry and
academia. Currently, she holds advisory positions at: The Danish National Bio-economy Panel, the Nordic Bio-economy Panel, Scientific Committee for the BBI JU and IAB
BIOTEC Thailand. Her fields of research are discovery of novel enzymes for improved biomass conversion and biorefinery processes, with specific focus on generating
value from agro-industrial side streams and waste products; development of the new enzyme discovery platform, PPR, a non-alignment based sequence analysis method,
predicting function directly from sequence and using PPR analysis, combined with MS, phylogenetic analysis.
Lene Lange
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Lene Lange, J Biotechnol Biomater 2017, 7:1(Suppl)