Review of advances in the development of laccases for the valorization of lignin to enable the production of lignocellulosic biofuels and bioproducts

LMCLK Curran, KL Sale, BA Simmons - Biotechnology advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Development and deployment of commercial biorefineries based on conversion of
lignocellulosic biomass into biofuels and bioproducts faces many challenges that must be …

Lignin biodegradation with laccase-mediator systems

LP Christopher, B Yao, Y Ji - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Lignin has a significant and largely unrealized potential as a source for the sustainable
production of fuels and bulk high-value chemicals. It can replace fossil-based oil as a …

Laccases and their natural mediators: biotechnological tools for sustainable eco-friendly processes

AI Cañas, S Camarero - Biotechnology advances, 2010 - Elsevier
Laccases are oxidoreductases which oxidize a variety of aromatic compounds using oxygen
as the electron acceptor and producing water as by-product. The interest for these old …

Bacterial laccases: promising biological green tools for industrial applications

ZB Guan, Q Luo, HR Wang, Y Chen… - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2018 - Springer
Multicopper oxidases (MCOs) are a pervasive family of enzymes that oxidize a wide range of
phenolic and nonphenolic aromatic substrates, concomitantly with the reduction of dioxygen …

Laccase-mediator systems and their applications: a review

OV Morozova, GP Shumakovich, SV Shleev… - Applied Biochemistry …, 2007 - Springer
The mechanism of operation of laccase-mediator systems (LMSs) in xenobiotic degradation
mediated by “true” redox mediators and laccase enhancing agents is considered. Structural …

Laccase: a green catalyst for the biosynthesis of poly-phenols

J Su, J Fu, Q Wang, C Silva… - Critical Reviews in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Laccases (benzene diol: oxidoreductases, EC 1.10. 3.2) are able to catalyze the oxidation of
various compounds containing phenolic and aniline structures using dissolved oxygen in …

Lignin-derived compounds as efficient laccase mediators for decolorization of different types of recalcitrant dyes

S Camarero, D Ibarra, MJ Martínez… - Applied and …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Ten phenols were selected as natural laccase mediators after screening 44 different
compounds with a recalcitrant dye (Reactive Black 5) as a substrate. Their performances …

Aptitude of oxidative enzymes for treatment of wastewater pollutants: a laccase perspective

JO Unuofin, AI Okoh, UU Nwodo - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Natural water sources are very often contaminated by municipal wastewater discharges
which contain either of xenobiotic pollutants and their sometimes more toxic degradation …

Paper pulp delignification using laccase and natural mediators

S Camarero, D Ibarra, ÁT Martínez, J Romero… - Enzyme and Microbial …, 2007 - Elsevier
Three plant phenols, namely acetosyringone, syringaldehyde and p-coumaric acid, were
selected as laccase redox mediators to investigate the enzymatic delignification of paper …

Continuous adsorption and biotransformation of micropollutants by granular activated carbon-bound laccase in a packed-bed enzyme reactor

LN Nguyen, FI Hai, A Dosseto, C Richardson… - Bioresource …, 2016 - Elsevier
Laccase was immobilized on granular activated carbon (GAC) and the resulting GAC-bound
laccase was used to degrade four micropollutants in a packed-bed column. Compared to the …