Guidelines to come to minimized tensile strength loss upon cellulase application

Application of cellulase technology in the textile production process often results in a certain loss of tensile strength along with the desired perfo rmance. In this paper guidelines are given how to come to minimization or e ven prevention of tensile strength loss. Part of the considerations is base d on the hypothesis given in the accompanying paper (Lenting and Warmoesker ken, 2001, J. Biotechnol.) concerning the mechanism of interaction between cellulase action and applied shear force. Recommendations given concern the enzyme choice, process parameters and enzyme targeting. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.