Degradation of cellulose by basidiomycetous fungi
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology
Abstract
Cellulose is the main polymeric component of the plant cell wall, the most abundant polysaccharide on Earth, and an important renewable resource. Basidiomycetous fungi belong to its most potent degraders because many species grow on dead wood or litter, in environment rich in cellulose. Fungal cellulolytic systems differ from the complex cellulolytic systems of bacteria. For the degradation of cellulose, basidiomycetes utilize a set of hydrolytic enzymes typically composed of endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase and beta-glucosidase. In some species, the absence of cellobiohydrolase is substituted by the production of processive endoglucanases combining the properties of both of these enzymes. In addition, systems…
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2Topics & keywords
- Cellulose
- Cellulase
- Cellobiose
- Cell wall
- Biology
- Cellobiose dehydrogenase
- Polysaccharide
- Bacteria