{"id":2190,"date":"2014-07-05T17:07:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T22:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2014-07-10T23:35:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T04:35:39","slug":"enzyme-detector-could-lead-to-greener-pulp-and-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/enzyme-detector-could-lead-to-greener-pulp-and-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Enzyme detector could lead to greener pulp and paper<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers have developed a new process to screen microorganisms for new enzymes that could make pulp and paper processes greener and cheaper.\u00a0<\/span>Lignin \u2014 one of the main components of wood \u2014 is hard to break down and usually requires treatment with harsh chemicals. However, some microorganisms use enzymes to break down lignin in nature.<\/p>\n<p>The new screening process uses a biosensor to \u2018sniff out\u2019 the breakdown products of lignin and environmental DNA sampling to identify not only which organisms are carrying out the transformation, but which enzymes and genes they are using to do so.<\/p>\n<p>If implanted into other organisms, these genes and enzymes could lead to greener processes for the pulp and paper industry.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/06\/26\/1401631111.abstract?sid=b138ebfe-1996-4c42-aaf6-d50057e143db\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.)\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 20, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Hallam, University of British Columbia, British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a new process to screen microorganisms for new enzymes that could make pulp and paper processes greener and cheaper.\u00a0Lignin \u2014 one of the main components of wood \u2014 is hard to break down and usually requires treatment with harsh chemicals. However, some microorganisms use enzymes to break down lignin in nature. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[125,917,909,1857,1856,1858,1855],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-british-columbia","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-industry","tag-microorganisms","tag-production","tag-wood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-zk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}