Adding a cationic polyacrylamide (c-PAM) to either the amylase mediated hydrolysis of corn starch or the hydrolysis of wood fiber by cellulase can enhance the initial hydrolysis rates, although a rate decrease can occur under some conditions. Several c-PAMs can serve as catalysts and the same c-PAM can improve the efficiency of both amylase and cellulase. The initial amylase rate approximately doubles; the analogous cellulase hydrolysis rate increases by about 40%. c-PAMs increase the binding of enzyme to substrate. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
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Reye, J. T., Maxwell, K., Rao, S., Lu, J., & Banerjee, S. (2009). Cationic polyacrylamides enhance rates of starch and cellulose saccharification. Biotechnology Letters, 31(10), 1613–1616. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-009-0053-y
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