User:Margrethe Gaardlos

Margrethe Gaardløs obtained her M.Sc. in Biotechnology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 2015, working on biochemical characterization of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, supervised by Professor Finn Aachmann and co-supervised by Anne Tondervik. She studies the alginate epimerases produced by Azotobacter vinelandii. The work is focused on understanding the enzyme-substrate interactions, mechanism and mode of action of these enzymes through mutational studies and biochemical and biophysical analysis [1].

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1. Stanisci A, Tøndervik A, Gaardløs M, Lervik A, Skjåk-Bræk G, Sletta H, and Aachmann FL. (2020). Identification of a Pivotal Residue for Determining the Block Structure-Forming Properties of Alginate C-5 Epimerases. ACS Omega. 2020;5(8):4352-4361. DOI:10.1021/acsomega.9b04490 |