TY - JOUR
T1 - Lignocellulose degradation
T2 - An overview of fungi and fungal enzymes involved in lignocellulose degradation
AU - Andlar, Martina
AU - Rezić, Tonči
AU - Marđetko, Nenad
AU - Kracher, Daniel
AU - Ludwig, Roland
AU - Šantek, Božidar
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project No. 9158 “Sustainable production of bioethanol and biochemicals from agricultural waste lignocellulosic raw materials.”
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
PY - 2018/11
Y1 - 2018/11
N2 - This review aims to present current knowledge of the fungi involved in lignocellulose degradation with an overview of the various classes of lignocellulose-acting enzymes engaged in the pretreatment and saccharification step. Fungi have numerous applications and biotechnological potential for various industries including chemicals, fuel, pulp, and paper. The capability of fungi to degrade lignocellulose containing raw materials is due to their highly effective enzymatic system. Along with the hydrolytic enzymes consisting of cellulases and hemicellulases, responsible for polysaccharide degradation, they have a unique nonenzymatic oxidative system which together with ligninolytic enzymes is responsible for lignin modification and degradation. An overview of the enzymes classification is given by the Carbohydrate-Active enZymes (CAZy) database as the major database for the identification of the lignocellulolytic enzymes by their amino acid sequence similarity. Finally, the recently discovered novel class of recalcitrant polysaccharide degraders-lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are presented, because of these enzymes importance in the cellulose degradation process.
AB - This review aims to present current knowledge of the fungi involved in lignocellulose degradation with an overview of the various classes of lignocellulose-acting enzymes engaged in the pretreatment and saccharification step. Fungi have numerous applications and biotechnological potential for various industries including chemicals, fuel, pulp, and paper. The capability of fungi to degrade lignocellulose containing raw materials is due to their highly effective enzymatic system. Along with the hydrolytic enzymes consisting of cellulases and hemicellulases, responsible for polysaccharide degradation, they have a unique nonenzymatic oxidative system which together with ligninolytic enzymes is responsible for lignin modification and degradation. An overview of the enzymes classification is given by the Carbohydrate-Active enZymes (CAZy) database as the major database for the identification of the lignocellulolytic enzymes by their amino acid sequence similarity. Finally, the recently discovered novel class of recalcitrant polysaccharide degraders-lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are presented, because of these enzymes importance in the cellulose degradation process.
KW - Biological pretreatment
KW - Carbohydrate active enzymes
KW - Fungi and fungal enzymes
KW - Lignocellulose degradation
KW - Plant cell wall
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U2 - 10.1002/elsc.201800039
DO - 10.1002/elsc.201800039
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85056334659
SN - 1618-0240
VL - 18
SP - 768
EP - 778
JO - Engineering in Life Sciences
JF - Engineering in Life Sciences
IS - 11
ER -