In collaboration with our experimental partners Prof. Truong Nam Hai (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi) and Prof. Wolfgang Streit (University of Hamburg), we develop an innovative technology platform for identification of novel and useful enzymes from metagenomic samples. The platform will integrate next-generation sequencing of metagenomic samples, data mining by a metagenomics pipeline, high-throughput expression of candidate genes by cell-free protein synthesis, the recombinant production of promising enzymes, and their application. This platform will be applied to identify novel proteins for lignocellulose degradation and modification of cellulose. The proposed German-Vietnamese project is embedded into an international metagenomics network with collaborators from Italy, South Africa, and the United States.
This research project is funded by BMBF
Publications
- Bauer, T., Buchholz, P., & Pleiss, J. (2020). The modular structure of α/β-hydrolases. FEBS J, 287, 1035–1053. https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/febs.15071
- Lohoff, C., Buchholz, P., Le, R.-H. M., & Pleiss, J. (2020). The Expansin Engineering Database: a navigation and classification tool for expansins and homologues. Proteins, 89, 149–162.
Project Members
Patrick Buchholz
Bioinformatics