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Energy fuel consumption has been raised considerably in past decades and encouraged researchers to seek new and sustainable source for produce fuel. Cellulosic material are the most abundant natural resource in the earth and can be used for biofuel production to be specific bio ethanol. Ethanol production processes consist of four general steps including cellulose hydrolysis, fermentation, separation of biomass impurities, and purification of ethanol. Cellulose hyrolysis by enzymatic approach cause considerable attention to cellulase as the only enzyme in this process to be engineered. In fact this procedure employs three main group of cellulase including: endoglucanases, exoglucanases and β-glucosidases. In addition these enzyme can be obtained from fungi and bacteria. As rate of chemical reaction increases by rising the temperature, producing stable enzyme in higher temperature (thermostable enzyme) can increase the efficiency of the conversion.
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Barati, B., Sadegh Amiri, I. (2015). Introduction of Cellulase and Its Application. In: In Silico Engineering of Disulphide Bonds to Produce Stable Cellulase. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-432-0_1
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