Polysaccharides are carbohydrate polymers in which monosaccharide ((CH2O)n) units are covalently joined by an O-glycosidic bond in either a branched or linear configuration. Polysaccharides serve ...

now show that bacteria present in the gut of Japanese individuals have acquired a carbohydrate-degrading enzyme from marine bacteria that allows them to degrade a polysaccharide found only in seaweed.

Vice Mayor Liang Yibo attended the groundbreaking ceremony. Changzhou Qianhong Bio-pharma, a leading biochemical maker of polysaccharides and enzymes drugs, has won numerous awards for its high ...

They realised that polysaccharide-degrading enzymes could serve the purpose and that a cow's gut was the ideal place to look for them. The bovine gut harbours microbial enzymes that digest ...

Based on this foundation, the researchers elucidated the critical role of the polysaccharide-active enzyme gene library, ...

Bio-based plastics include two types of plastics. The first is biomass plastics which are made from natural resources such as plants and the second is biodegradable plastics which are decomposed by ...