In collaboration with Taiwan’s Academica Sinica and the University of Georgia, the group solved the x-ray structure of XylC, a β-xylosidase from Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum JW/SL-YS485 in the presence of various substrates, leading to a postulated mechanism of action.
Chun-Hsiang Huang et al., Biochemical Journal 448, 2012, doi:10.1042/BJ20121359