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Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) are among the most promising prebiotics in the market. Produced from sucrose using fructosyltransferase enzymes, the process exhibits low purity and conversion yields due to large amounts of glucose released during FOS production. This leads to the presence of non-prebiotic sugars in the final product. FoSynBio presents a faster and sustainable bioprocess by using the whole cells of a FOS producer, which also remove other sugars, resulting in high fermentation yields and purer FOS.
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POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029549
Composting units which handle lignocellulosic residues are suitable sources of novel and promising lignocellulose-degrading enzymes such as cellulases, xylanases and laccases. These enzymes have practical application in biorefineries where lignocellulose is converted into several added-value bioproducts. However, the effective conversion of lignocellulose by a sustainable process is currently incomplete and there is a need to find novel and robust catalysts to overcome this fact. Lignozymes presents a function-based metagenomic approach to identify novel lignocellulose-degrading enzymes.
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POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029773
