Creative biological lignin conversion routes toward lignin valorization

ZH Liu, BZ Li, JS Yuan, YJ Yuan - Trends in Biotechnology, 2022 - cell.com
Lignin, the largest renewable aromatic resource, is a promising alternative feedstock for the
sustainable production of various chemicals, fuels, and materials. Despite this potential …

Critical enzyme reactions in aromatic catabolism for microbial lignin conversion

E Erickson, A Bleem, E Kuatsjah, AZ Werner… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The application of microbes to valorize aromatic compounds derived from the abundant
plant biopolymer lignin is a rapidly developing area of research that may ultimately enable …

Intracellular pathways for lignin catabolism in white-rot fungi

C Del Cerro, E Erickson, T Dong… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Lignin is a biopolymer found in plant cell walls that accounts for 30% of the organic carbon
in the biosphere. White-rot fungi (WRF) are considered the most efficient organisms at …

[HTML][HTML] A field of dreams: Lignin valorization into chemicals, materials, fuels, and health-care products

J Becker, C Wittmann - Biotechnology Advances, 2019 - Elsevier
Lignin is one of the most abundant renewable resources on earth and is readily produced as
a sidestream during biomass fractioning. So far, these large quantities of lignin have been …

Transforming biorefinery designs with 'Plug-In Processes of Lignin'to enable economic waste valorization

ZH Liu, N Hao, YY Wang, C Dou, F Lin, R Shen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Biological lignin valorization has emerged as a major solution for sustainable and cost-
effective biorefineries. However, current biorefineries yield lignin with inadequate …

Environmental sustainability: challenges and viable solutions

NK Arora, T Fatima, I Mishra, M Verma, J Mishra… - Environmental …, 2018 - Springer
Since last century or so anthropogenic activities have intensely metamorphosed the earth's
ecosystem and resulted into major environmental changes. Widespread interference of …

Recent advances in lignin valorization with bacterial cultures: microorganisms, metabolic pathways, and bio-products

Z Xu, P Lei, R Zhai, Z Wen, M Jin - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2019 - Springer
Lignin is the most abundant aromatic substrate on Earth and its valorization technologies
are still under developed. Depolymerization and fragmentation are the predominant …

Microbial lignin valorization through depolymerization to aromatics conversion

F Li, Y Zhao, L Xue, F Ma, SY Dai, S Xie - Trends in biotechnology, 2022 - cell.com
Lignin is the most abundant source of renewable aromatic biopolymers and its valorization
presents significant value for biorefinery sustainability, which promotes the utilization of …

Biological degradation of lignin: A critical review on progress and perspectives

L Zhao, J Zhang, D Zhao, L Jia, B Qin, X Cao… - Industrial Crops and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As the second most abundant biopolymer on earth after cellulose, lignin is considered to be
an alternative source of various polymers and biomaterials since it can be cleaved into a …

Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases in biotechnology and synthetic biology

VB Urlacher, M Girhard - Trends in biotechnology, 2019 - cell.com
Cytochromes P450 (P450 or CYP) are heme-containing enzymes that catalyze the
introduction of one atom of molecular oxygen into nonactivated C–H bonds, often in a regio …