The complex carbohydrates of terrestrial and marine biomass represent a rich nutrient
source for free-living and mutualistic microbes alike. The enzymatic saccharification of these …

Lignocellulosic biomass has enormous potential to contribute to worldwide energy,
chemical, and material demands in a renewable, sustainable manner. In the United States …

Carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes) are made by various organisms for complex
carbohydrate metabolism. Genome mining of CAZymes has become a routine data analysis …

The gut is home to trillions of microorganisms that have fundamental roles in many aspects
of human biology, including immune function and metabolism,. The reduced diversity of the …

Unlike proteins, glycan chains are not directly encoded by DNA, but by the specificity of the
enzymes that assemble them. Theoretical calculations have proposed an astronomical …

Abstract The Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes database (CAZy; http://www. cazy. org) provides
online and continuously updated access to a sequence-based family classification linking …

Background Since its inception, the carbohydrate-active enzymes database (CAZy;
http://www. cazy. org) has described the families of enzymes that cleave or build complex …

The structure of the human gut microbiota is controlled primarily through the degradation of
complex dietary carbohydrates, but the extent to which carbohydrate breakdown products …

The version of this article published in BMC Genomics 2013, 14: 274, contains 9
unpublished genomes (Botryobasidium botryosum, Gymnopus luxurians, Hypholoma …

A well-balanced human diet includes a significant intake of non-starch polysaccharides,
collectively termed 'dietary fibre', from the cell walls of diverse fruits and vegetables. Owing …