An overview of mannan structure and mannan-degrading enzyme systems

LRS Moreira, EXF Filho - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2008 - Springer
Hemicellulose is a complex group of heterogeneous polymers and represents one of the
major sources of renewable organic matter. Mannan is one of the major constituent groups …

Microbial mannanases: an overview of production and applications

S Dhawan, J Kaur - Critical reviews in biotechnology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Microbial mannanases have become biotechnologically important since they target the
hydrolysis of complex polysaccharides of plant tissues into simple molecules like manno …

Microbial hydrolysis of polysaccharides

RAJ Warren - Annual review of microbiology, 1996 - annualreviews.org
Microorganisms are efficient degraders of starch, chitin, and the polysaccharides in plant cell
walls. Attempts to purify hydrolases led to the realization that a microorganism may produce …

Mannan biotechnology: from biofuels to health

M Yamabhai, S Sak-Ubol, W Srila… - Critical reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Mannans of different structure and composition are renewable bioresources that can be
widely found as components of lignocellulosic biomass in softwood and agricultural wastes …

Insights into Plant Cell Wall Degradation from the Genome Sequence of the Soil Bacterium Cellvibrio japonicus

RT DeBoy, EF Mongodin, DE Fouts… - Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
The plant cell wall, which consists of a highly complex array of interconnecting
polysaccharides, is the most abundant source of organic carbon in the biosphere …

A comparison of enzyme-aided bleaching of softwood paper pulp using combinations of xylanase, mannanase and α-galactosidase

JH Clarke, K Davidson, JE Rixon, JR Halstead… - Applied microbiology …, 2000 - Springer
Enzymatic pretreatment of softwood kraft pulp was investigated using xylanase A (XylA) from
Neocallimastix patriciarum in combination with mannanase and α-galactosidase …

Hydrolysis of biomass mediated by cellulases for the production of sugars

RE Quiroz-Castañeda… - … of lignocellulosic biomass …, 2013 - books.google.com
Cellulose, the most abundant organic molecule on Earth is found mainly as a structural
component of plant and algal cell walls, is also produced by some animals, such as tuni …

Localisation and characterisation of cell wall mannan polysaccharides in Arabidopsis thaliana

MG Handford, TC Baldwin, F Goubet, TA Prime, J Miles… - Planta, 2003 - Springer
Abstract Polysaccharides containing β-1, 4-mannosyl residues (mannans) are abundant in
the lignified secondary cell walls of gymnosperms, and are also found as major seed …

The conserved noncatalytic 40-residue sequence in cellulases and hemicellulases from anaerobic fungi functions as a protein docking domain

C Fanutti, T Ponyi, GW Black, GP Hazlewood… - Journal of Biological …, 1995 - ASBMB
Two cDNAs, designated xynA and manA, encoding xylanase A (XYLA) and mannanase A
(MANA), respectively, were isolated from a cDNA library derived from mRNA extracted from …

Xylanase and Mannanase enzymes from Streptomyces galbus NR and their use in biobleaching of softwood kraft pulp

AL Kansoh, ZA Nagieb - Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 2004 - Springer
Enzymatic pretreatment of softwood kraft pulp was investigated using xylanase and
mannanase, singly or in combination, either sequentially or simultaneously. Enzymes were …