NASA researchers assemble “Rosettazyme” synthetic cellusome, potentially increasing cellulosic conversion efficiency

Biofuels Digest
August 04, 2009 Jim Lane

In California, researchers at the NASA Ames Research Center are reporting progress in the development of a synthetic cellusome, a self-assembling enzyme complex that is highly efficient in conversion of cellulose to sugars. The research team published “The Rosettazyme: A Synthetic Cellulosome” appearing in the July 30 issue of the Journal of Biotechnology, and said that have used using protein parts from different microbe to produce multi-enzyme arrays on a protein scaffold of their own design.

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