Biotransformation of lignocellulosic biomass into industrially relevant products with the aid of fungi-derived lignocellulolytic enzymes

S Saldarriaga-Hernández, C Velasco-Ayala… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic material has drawn significant attention among the scientific community due
to its year-round availability as a renewable resource for industrial consumption. Being an …

Addressing challenges in production of cellulases for biomass hydrolysis: Targeted interventions into the genetics of cellulase producing fungi

RK Sukumaran, M Christopher, P Kooloth-Valappil… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic materials are the favoured feedstock for biorefineries due to their abundant
availability and non-completion with food. Biobased technologies for refining these materials …

Insights into the H2O2‐driven catalytic mechanism of fungal lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases

TM Hedison, E Breslmayr, M Shanmugam… - The FEBS …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fungal lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) depolymerise crystalline cellulose
and hemicellulose, supporting the utilisation of lignocellulosic biomass as a feedstock for …

Industrial use of cell wall degrading enzymes: the fine line between production strategy and economic feasibility

M Giovannoni, G Gramegna, M Benedetti… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes (CWDEs) are a heterogeneous group of enzymes including
glycosyl-hydrolases, oxidoreductases, lyases, and esterases. Microbes with degrading …

Revisiting the role of electron donors in lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase biochemistry

GR Hemsworth - Essays in biochemistry, 2023 - portlandpress.com
The plant cell wall is rich in carbohydrates and many fungi and bacteria have evolved to take
advantage of this carbon source. These carbohydrates are largely locked away in …

Recent theoretical insights into the oxidative degradation of biopolymers and plastics by metalloenzymes

A Rovaletti, L De Gioia, P Fantucci, C Greco… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Molecular modeling techniques have become indispensable in many fields of molecular
sciences in which the details related to mechanisms and reactivity need to be studied at an …

Advances in lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases with the cellulose-degrading auxiliary activity family 9 to facilitate cellulose degradation for biorefinery

L Long, Y Hu, F Sun, W Gao, Z Hao, H Yin - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
One crucial step in processing the recalcitrant lignocellulosic biomass is the fast hydrolysis
of natural cellulose to fermentable sugars that can be subsequently converted to biofuels …

A multi-omics approach to lignocellulolytic enzyme discovery reveals a new ligninase activity from Parascedosporium putredinis NO1

NC Oates, A Abood, AM Schirmacher… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Lignocellulose, the structural component of plant cells, is a major agricultural byproduct and
the most abundant terrestrial source of biopolymers on Earth. The complex and insoluble …

Chimeric cellobiose dehydrogenases reveal the function of cytochrome domain mobility for the electron transfer to lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase

AKG Felice, C Schuster, A Kadek, F Filandr… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The natural function of cellobiose dehydrogenase (CDH) to donate electrons from its
catalytic flavodehydrogenase (DH) domain via its cytochrome (CYT) domain to lytic …

Kinetic characterization of a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase reveals a unique specificity for depolymerization at β-O-4 of lignin compounds

S Bhatia, A Purohit, SK Yadav - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The intrinsic role of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) for oxidative cleavage of
a wide range of polysaccharides like cellulose, starch, chitin, and xyloglucan has been …