Role and significance of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) in lignocellulose deconstruction

RR Singhania, P Dixit, AK Patel, BS Giri, CH Kuo… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) emerged a decade ago and have been
described as biomass deconstruction boosters as they play an extremely important role in …

Thermostable cellulose saccharifying microbial enzymes: Characteristics, recent advances and biotechnological applications

A Dadwal, S Sharma, T Satyanarayana - International Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cellulases play a promising role in the bioconversion of renewable lignocellulosic biomass
into fermentable sugars which are subsequently fermented to biofuels and other value …

Substrate-Dependent Cellulose Saccharification Efficiency and LPMO Activity of Cellic CTec2 and a Cellulolytic Secretome from Thermoascus aurantiacus and the Impact of H2 …

H Østby, A Várnai, R Gabriel, P Chylenski… - ACS Sustainable …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Understanding and improving the efficiency of enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic
biomass will promote the use of this renewable material. Here, we have studied several …

Dynamics of microbial community structure and enzyme activities during the solid-state fermentation of Forgood Daqu: a starter of Chinese strong flavour Baijiu

Y Zeng, Y Wang, Q Chen, X Xia, Q Liu, X Chen… - Archives of …, 2022 - Springer
Daqu is the traditional fermentation starter for Chinese Baijiu, a traditional Chinese distilled
liquor. Although the microbes in Daqu blocks play important roles in the solid-state …

Polysaccharides from Porphyra haitanensis: A Review of Their Extraction, Modification, Structures, and Bioactivities

M Sun, Y Zhang, W Gao, Y He, Y Wang, Y Sun… - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Porphyra haitanensis (P. haitanensis), an important food source for coastal residents in
China, has a long history of medicinal and edible value. P. haitanensis polysaccharides are …

Oxidative power: tools for assessing LPMO activity on cellulose

F Calderaro, LE Bevers, MA van den Berg - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) have sparked a lot of research regarding
their fascinating mode-of-action. Particularly, their boosting effect on top of the well-known …

CAZymes from the thermophilic fungus Thermoascus aurantiacus are induced by C5 and C6 sugars

R Gabriel, R Mueller, L Floerl, C Hopson, S Harth… - Biotechnology for …, 2021 - Springer
Background Filamentous fungi are excellent lignocellulose degraders, which they achieve
through producing carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes). CAZyme production is highly …

CRISPR/Cas9: A cutting-edge tool for cellulase enhancement in fungi

V Pal, D Sharma, P Vishwakarma, D Samanta… - Fungal Biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
CRISPR/Cas9 system is a cutting-edge gene-editing tool that has recently been introduced
for the strain improvement of fungi to enhance their cellulolytic activity. Cellulase is an …

Development of genetic tools for the thermophilic filamentous fungus Thermoascus aurantiacus

R Gabriel, J Prinz, M Jecmenica… - Biotechnology for …, 2020 - Springer
Background Fungal enzymes are vital for industrial biotechnology, including the conversion
of plant biomass to biofuels and bio-based chemicals. In recent years, there is increasing …

Efficient biomass saccharification using a novel cellobiohydrolase from Clostridium clariflavum for utilization in biofuel industry

A Zafar, MN Aftab, A Asif, A Karadag, L Peng… - RSC …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The present study describes the cloning of the cellobiohydrolase gene from a thermophilic
bacterium Clostridium clariflavum and its expression in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) utilizing …