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Renata Bura

Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of …
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Substrate pretreatment: the key to effective enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosics?

RP Chandra, R Bura, WE Mabee, A Berlin, X Pan… - Biofuels, 2007 - Springer
Although the structure and function of cellulase systems continue to be the subject of intense
research, it is widely acknowledged that the rate and extent of the cellulolytic hydrolysis of …

Updates on softwood-to-ethanol process development

WE Mabee, DJ Gregg, C Arato, A Berlin, R Bura… - … -seventh symposium on …, 2006 - Springer
Softwoods are generally considered to be one of the most difficult lignocellulosic feedstocks
to hydrolyze to sugars for fermentation, primarily owing to the nature and amount of lignin. If …

Effect of hemicellulose and lignin removal on enzymatic hydrolysis of steam pretreated corn stover

K Öhgren, R Bura, J Saddler, G Zacchi - Bioresource technology, 2007 - Elsevier
Ethanol can be produced from lignocellulosic biomass using steam pretreatment followed
by enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation. The sugar yields, from both hemicellulose and …

A comparison between simultaneous saccharification and fermentation and separate hydrolysis and fermentation using steam-pretreated corn stover

K Öhgren, R Bura, G Lesnicki, J Saddler, G Zacchi - Process Biochemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
Two different process configurations, simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF)
and separate hydrolysis and fermentation (SHF), were compared, at 8% water-insoluble …

Composition of extracellular polymeric substances in the activated sludge floc matrix

R Bura, M Cheung, B Liao, J Finlayson, BC Lee… - Water Science and …, 1998 - Elsevier
The precise role of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in relation to the formation and
physicochemical properties of microbial floc in wastewater treatment systems is not well …

Weak lignin-binding enzymes: a novel approach to improve activity of cellulases for hydrolysis of lignocellulosics

A Berlin, N Gilkes, A Kurabi, R Bura, M Tu… - Applied biochemistry …, 2005 - Springer
Economic barriers preventing commercialization of lignocellulose-to-ethanol bioconversion
processes include the high cost of hydrolytic enzymes. One strategy for cost reduction is to …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming biorefinery designs with 'Plug-In Processes of Lignin'to enable economic waste valorization

…, N Hao, YY Wang, C Dou, F Lin, R Shen, R Bura… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Biological lignin valorization has emerged as a major solution for sustainable and cost-effective
biorefineries. However, current biorefineries yield lignin with inadequate fractionation for …

Evaluation of novel fungal cellulase preparations for ability to hydrolyze softwood substrates–evidence for the role of accessory enzymes

A Berlin, N Gilkes, D Kilburn, R Bura, A Markov… - Enzyme and microbial …, 2005 - Elsevier
… preparations reveals poor correlation with activities determined using filter paper (r MSR …
performance on pretreated softwood and levels of endogenous mannanase activity (r MSR …

Influence of xylan on the enzymatic hydrolysis of steam‐pretreated corn stover and hybrid poplar

R Bura, R Chandra, J Saddler - Biotechnology progress, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The focus of this study was to alter the xylan content of corn stover and poplar using SO 2 ‐catalyzed
steam pretreatment to determine the effect on subsequent hydrolysis by commercial …

Acid‐catalyzed steam pretreatment of lodgepole pine and subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation to ethanol

SM Ewanick, R Bura, JN Saddler - Biotechnology and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Utilization of ethanol produced from biomass has the potential to offset the use of gasoline
and reduce CO 2 emissions. This could reduce the effects of global warming, one of which is …