Green Hydrogen Production from Biomass Catalyzed by Enzyme Cocktails

Prof. ZHANG Yiheng, who is affiliated with Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his co-workers in the USA, have now introduced an enzyme cocktail of more than 15 enzymes that can produce hydrogen from both glucose and xylose of corn stover. The study entitled “High-yield hydrogen production from biomass by in vitro metabolic engineering: Mixed sugars coutilization and kinetic modelling” has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. A US patent was also issued (US 8,211,861).

Ethiopia delegates visited TIB

Dr . Kassu Yilala Ashame , the Advisor to the Prime Minister and with a Ministerial position in Policy and Research Institute , as the head of the biological technology delegation from Ethiopia visited Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology .During the visit , the delegation visited the core facilities covering high-throughput screening , systems biotechnology , fermentation , and the laboratory of microbial metabolic engineering of TIB .

Prof. Jurgen Rohr from University of Kentucky visited TIB

Prof . Jurgen Rohr from University of Kentucky visited TIB at the invitation of Prof . Tao Liu on Octorber 17 .Prof . Jibin Sun , the Deputy Director-General of TIB , on behalf of CAS , issued the certificate of CAS Visiting Professorship to Prof . Jurgen Rohr . Thereafter .Introduction to Prof . Jurgen Rohr : Prof . Jurgen Rohr now is the full Professor at the College of Pharmacy of the University of Kentucky in 2002 , and is the Director of the Division of Drug Discovery since.

Scientists developed a bioinformatics tool for accurate prediction of protein crystallization propensity

Structure biology always faces the multi-step failures in the experimental process of three-dimensional structure determination by X-ray crystallography , including sequence cloning , protein material production , purification .Melbourne Australia . They have recently developed a powerful bioinformatics tool termed as PredPPCrys ( See the accompanying Figure for a schematic illustration of the PredPPCrys approach ) for propensity analysis of the five major experimental steps involved in successful protein crystallization .

Biosynthesis of Rare Sugars Through Constructing a Recombination Pathway in an Engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum

Rare sugars have various biological functions and have been used as food additives , cancer cell suppressors and building blocks for anticancer and antiviral drugs .Because of rare existence of rare sugars in nature , microbial and enzymatic transformations have been developed for synthesis of rare sugars .After additional optimization of expression level of genes in the pathway and of the fermentation conditions , the engineered strain exhibited high efficiency for rare ketoses production .

First Sino–Canada Workshop on Biomass Transformation and Commercial Opportunities was successfully held at TIB, CAS

First Sino – Canada Workshop on Biomass Transformation and Commercial Opportunities was successfully held at Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology ( TIB ) , CAS from June 2 to June.Organized by China National Center for Biotechnology Development ( CNCBD-MOST ) and TIB , CAS . Prof . Shulin Chen from TIB and Dr . Aleks Patrzykat from NRC were appointed as the chairmen of the workshop .The success of this workshop not only laid a good foundation for the second workshop , but also for the substantial cooperation in the field of biomass between the two countries .

Prof. SUN Yuanxia gave a plenary lecture on “Rare Sugar Symposium 2014 in Kagawa”

Prof . SUN Yuanxia was invited to participate in the “ Rare Sugar Symposium 2014 in Kagawa ” organized by the International Society of Rare Sugar ( ISRS ) in Takamatsu , Japan , on March 29 .Named “ Biosynthesis of rare sugars using multi-enzyme coupling reaction in genetic engineering bacteria ” . The presentation showed the process and method for screening and constructing of engineering bacteria to produce rare sugars ( such as psicose .

Researchers found a novel L-arabinose isomerase from a food-grade microorganism

Professor Richard Clague Gardner visited TIB

Professor Ole Hindsgaul from Danish Carlseberg Laboratory Visited TIB