Stochastic model of lignocellulosic material saccharification
Fig 7
(a) Simulated saccharification time courses for increasing lignin percentage up to a time tend = 40 (arbitrary units). Each curve represents an average over 100 simulation runs. (b) Simulated glucan to glucose conversion at time tend versus lignin content for five different values of the overall enzyme concentration [E]. The gray lines trace the inverse logistic behavior, while the black lines indicate the approximately linear intermediate regimes. Each point represents an average over 100 simulation runs. (c) Simulated glucan to glucose conversion at time tend versus lignin content and number of monolignols involved in the binding of a single enzyme (Nlignols,bound). Enzyme concentration is: [E] = 5 μM. (d) Simulated glucan to glucose conversion at time tend versus mean polymer covering fraction and its standard deviation (see also section 2.3). The lignin content is 50%, and the enzyme concentration is [E] = 5 μM. In (c) and (d) each pixel represents an average over 10 simulation runs.