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ABEnzymes (Germany) — Germany

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

10h-index307citations15works11.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization(7), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution(4), Enzyme Production and Characterization(3), Biofuel production and bioconversion(2), biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties(2)

Publications15 total

Corrigendum to “Two-step biocatalytic conversion of post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate into value-added products facilitated by genetic and bioprocess engineering” [Bioresour. Technol. 417 (2025) 131837]
Bioresource Technology·2025Open Access
Exploring biotechnology for plastic recycling, degradation and upcycling for a sustainable future
Biotechnology Advances·2025· 21 cited
One‐Pot Depolymerization of Mixed Plastics Using a Dual Enzyme System
ChemSusChem·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Two-step biocatalytic conversion of post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate into value-added products facilitated by genetic and bioprocess engineering
Bioresource Technology·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
An integrated platform for automatic design and screening of virtual mutants based on 3D-QSAR analysis
Journal of Molecular Catalysis B Enzymatic·2013· 9 cited
<i>In silico</i> screening of 393 mutants facilitates enzyme engineering of amidase activity in CalB
PeerJ·2013· 12 citedOpen Access
Peer Review #1 of "In silico screening of 393 mutants facilitates enzyme engineering of amidase activity in CalB (v0.1)"
2013Open Access
A Computational Methodology to Screen Activities of Enzyme Variants
PLoS ONE·2012· 23 citedOpen Access
Bioinformatic analysis of alpha/beta-hydrolase fold enzymes reveals subfamily-specific positions responsible for discrimination of amidase and lipase activities
Protein Engineering Design and Selection·2012· 59 citedOpen Access
Esterases with an Introduced Amidase‐Like Hydrogen Bond in the Transition State Have Increased Amidase Specificity
ChemBioChem·2012· 32 cited
Structure and Activity of Paenibacillus polymyxa Xyloglucanase from Glycoside Hydrolase Family 44
Journal of Biological Chemistry·2011· 45 citedOpen Access
Structure of a Paenibacillus polymyxa Xyloglucanase from GH family 44 with Xyloglucan
2011· 1 cited
Protein engineering with genetic selection: tolerance of enzyme activity to sequence change
Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)·2007Open Access
Relative tolerance of mesostable and thermostable protein homologs to extensive mutation
Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics·2006· 72 cited
New Enzymes from Combinatorial Library Modules
Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology·2004· 10 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Allan Svendsen(6), Uwe T. Bornscheuer(4), Weiliang Dong(4), Ren Wei(4), Luca De Vico(3), Jan H. Jensen(3), Till Tiso(3), Gina Welsing(3), Birger Wolter(3), Lars M. Blank(3), Min Jiang(3), Peter Kast(2), Donald Hilvert(2), A. Ariza(2), Jens Eklöf(2), Oliver Spadiut(2), Wendy A. Offen(2), S.M. Roberts(2), Esben P. Friis(2), Michael Skjøt(2)