Lignin is the most abundant renewable source of aromatic polymer in nature, and its
decomposition is indispensable for carbon recycling. It is chemically recalcitrant to …

Increasing discharge and improper management of liquid and solid industrial wastes have
created a great concern among industrialists and the scientific community over their …

This is the second set of Handbook of Porphyrin Science. Porphyrins, phthalocyanines and
their numerous analogues and derivatives are materials of tremendous importance in …

Covering: up to May 2006. This Highlight provides an overview of the molecular logic
employed in the formation and elaboration of pyrroles during natural product biosyntheses …

Versatile peroxidases (VP), a recently described family of ligninolytic peroxidases, show a
hybrid molecular architecture combining different oxidation sites connected to the heme …

Versatile peroxidase (VP) is defined by its capabilities to oxidize the typical substrates of
other basidiomycete peroxidases:(i) Mn2+, the manganese peroxidase (MnP) substrate …

The radical S-adenosylmethionine (rSAM) enzyme SuiB catalyzes the formation of an
unusual carbon–carbon bond between the sidechains of lysine (Lys) and tryptophan (Trp) in …

The feasibility of producing biofuels and biochemicals from lignocellulosic biomass via the
biochemical platform depends largely on advances in pretreatment and hydrolysis …

Dye-decolorizing peroxidase (DyP) of Auricularia auricula-judae has been expressed in
Escherichia coli as a representative of a new DyP family, and subjected to mutagenic …

A mechanism accounting for the robust catalase activity in catalase-peroxidases (KatG)
presents a new challenge in heme protein enzymology. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis …