Carbon Catabolite Repression (CCR) has fascinated scientists and researchers around the
globe for the past few decades. This important mechanism allows preferential utilization of …

Plant biomass degradation by fungi requires a diverse set of secreted enzymes and
significantly contributes to the global carbon cycle. Recent advances in genomic and …

Fungi play a major role in the global carbon cycle because of their ability to utilize plant
biomass (polysaccharides, proteins, and lignin) as carbon source. Due to the complexity and …

Background The soft rot ascomycetal fungus Trichoderma reesei is utilized for industrial
production of secreted enzymes, especially lignocellulose degrading enzymes. T. reesei …

Neurospora crassa colonizes burnt grasslands in the wild and metabolizes both cellulose
and hemicellulose from plant cell walls. When switched from a favored carbon source such …

Feruloyl esterases (FAEs) represent a diverse group of carboxyl esterases that specifically
catalyze the hydrolysis of ester bonds between ferulic (hydroxycinnamic) acid and plant cell …

Filamentous fungus Penicillium oxalicum produces diverse lignocellulolytic enzymes, which
are regulated by the combinations of many transcription factors. Here, a single-gene …

Carbon catabolite repression (CCR) is a process that selects the energetically most
favorable carbon source in an environment. CCR represses the use of less favorable carbon …

Hemicellulose, the second most abundant plant biomass fraction after cellulose, is widely
viewed as a potential substrate for the production of liquid fuels and other value-added …

Abstract β-Xylosidases are hydrolytic enzymes which play an important role in xylan
degradation, hydrolyzing xylobiose and xylooligosaccharides to xylose from the non …