Institute of Chemistry
Topic
Hemicellulose breakdown by xylanolytic enzymes
PhD. program
Biochemistry
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Vladimír Puchart, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology
Annotation
1. To unravel the reason for structural diversity of many auxiliary xylanolytic enzymes – beta-xylosidases, alpha-L-arabinofuranosidases, alpha-glucuronidases and acetylxylan esterases; 2. To examine substrate specificity of various auxiliary xylanolytic enzymes; 3. To establish a relationship between enzyme structure, substrate specificity and biological function.