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Office Tel.: +46855378347
Mobile: +46736188820
Fax: +46855378468
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Subjects of studies:
The main focus of the Department of Wood Biotechnology is the exploitation
of plant cell walls as models for biomimetic materials. An important
element of our approach is wood fiber modification using both microbial
hydrolytic enzymes as well as enzymes involved in fiber biosynthesis
in poplar. Our strategy is based on integrated use of genomics,
proteomics and protein engineering. Recent high lights of our current
work are the discovery of over 200 genes involved in wood formation
in hybrid aspen, discovery of 18 different genes encoding cellulose
synthases (Ces) in Populus trichocarpa, structural and functional
characterization of xyloglucan endotransglycosylases and enzymatic
characterization of a putative poplar ortholog of the Arabidopsis
endoglucanase, Korrigan. We have also recently developed a new method
for selective surface modification of cellulosic materials by using
chemo-enzymatically modified xyloglucan as the reactive interface.
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