A scientific-research group of New York University scientists declared a discovery of a new group of biocatalyzers capable of breaking up monotropic amylum.
Within a period of their work the scientists carried out a range of in-depth tests of a new type biocatalyzers using atmospheric oxygen for the initiation of a reactive process of oxidation. The previous researches showed that biocatalyst polysaccharides mono-oxygenases have properties to break up fission-resistant types of biomass into saccharide particles. But, the discovered saccharides secreted by a certain type of fungi and bacteria are also capable of effecting fission-resistant types of amylum.
Amylum belongs to polysaccharides contained in high concentration in food staffs and plants. By determining a method of its fission, it is possible thereafter to find new ways of its use having the potential for the biofuel production.
The International Research Group which consists of the representatives of Copenhagen, Marseilles, New York and Cambridge Universities have come up with these results.
