Enzymatic modification of cotton fibre polysaccharides as an enabler of sustainable laundry detergents.

ABSTRACT: Cotton is the most common natural fibre used in textile manufacture, used alone or with other fibres to create a wide range of fashion clothing and household textiles. Most of these textiles are cleaned using detergents and domestic or commercial washing machines using processes that require many chemicals and large quantities of water and energy. Enzymes can reduce this environmental footprint by enabling effective detergency at reduced temperatures, mostly by directly attacking substrates present in the soils. In the present study, we report the contribution of a cleaning cellulase enzyme based on the family 44 glycoside hydrolase (GH) endo-beta-1,4-glucanase from Paenibacillus polymyxa. The action of this enzyme on textile fibres improves laundry detergent performance in several vectors

SUBMITTER: Yau HCL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11436786 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature