Ligninolytic enzymes and its mechanisms for degradation of lignocellulosic waste in environment

A Kumar, R Chandra - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Ligninolytic enzymes play a key role in degradation and detoxification of lignocellulosic
waste in environment. The major ligninolytic enzymes are laccase, lignin peroxidase …

[HTML][HTML] Review on the current status of polymer degradation: a microbial approach

VM Pathak - Bioresources and Bioprocessing, 2017 - Springer
Inertness and the indiscriminate use of synthetic polymers leading to increased land and
water pollution are of great concern. Plastic is the most useful synthetic polymer, employed …

Lignocellulose degradation: An overview of fungi and fungal enzymes involved in lignocellulose degradation

M Andlar, T Rezić, N Marđetko… - Engineering in life …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Genomes and secretomes of Ascomycota fungi reveal diverse functions in plant biomass decomposition and pathogenesis

JF Challacombe, CN Hesse, LM Bramer, LA McCue… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background The dominant fungi in arid grasslands and shrublands are members of the
Ascomycota phylum. Ascomycota fungi are important drivers in carbon and nitrogen cycling …

Expanding the catalytic landscape of metalloenzymes with lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases

A Munzone, VGH Eijsink, JG Berrin… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) have an essential role in global carbon
cycle, industrial biomass processing and microbial pathogenicity by catalysing the oxidative …

Enzymatic treatment processes for the production of cellulose nanomaterials: A review

X Tong, Z He, L Zheng, H Pande, Y Ni - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellulose nanomaterials have attracted much attention in recent years because of their
unique properties. Commercial or semi-commercial production of nanocellulose has been …

Cooperation in microbial communities and their biotechnological applications

M Cavaliere, S Feng, OS Soyer… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial communities are increasingly utilized in biotechnology. Efficiency and productivity
in many of these applications depends on the presence of cooperative interactions between …

Cellulases: from lignocellulosic biomass to improved production

N Ilić, M Milić, S Beluhan, S Dimitrijević-Branković - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cellulases are enzymes that are attracting worldwide attention because of their ability to
degrade cellulose in the lignocellulosic biomass and transform it into highly demanded …

Enzymatic engineering of nanometric cellulose for sustainable polypropylene nanocomposites

D Zielińska, T Rydzkowski, VK Thakur… - Industrial Crops and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, the influence of enzymatic modification on the properties of nanocellulose
reinforced polypropylene nanocomposites was investigated in detail. Methods such as high …

Cellulase and oxidative enzymes: new approaches, challenges and perspectives on cellulose degradation for bioethanol production

FC Barbosa, MA Silvello, R Goldbeck - Biotechnology letters, 2020 - Springer
Second-generation bioethanol is a sustainable energy source that can be produced from
different renewable materials. However, there is a challenge we must overcome to …