Significant progress over the past few years has been achieved in the enzymology of
microbial degradation and saccharification of plant xylan, after cellulose being the most …

Enzymatic degradation of plant polysaccharides has many industrial applications, such as
within the paper, food, and feed industry and for sustainable production of fuels and …

The major role of antioxidant compounds in preserving food shelf life, as well as providing
health promoting benefits, combined with the increasing concern towards synthetic …

As important polysaccharide degraders in nature, fungi can diversify their extensive set of
carbohydrate-active enzymes to survive in ecological habitats of various composition …

Ferulic acid and its hydroxycinnamate derivatives represent one of the most abundant forms
of low molecular weight phenolic compounds in plant biomass. Feruloyl esterases are part …

The economic utilization of abundant lignocellulosic biomass as a feedstock for the
production of fuel and chemicals would represent a profound shift in industrial carbon …

Feruloyl esterases (FAEs) represent a diverse group of carboxyl esterases that specifically
catalyze the hydrolysis of ester bonds between ferulic (hydroxycinnamic) acid and plant cell …

Background The discovery and development of novel plant cell wall degrading enzymes is a
key step towards more efficient depolymerization of polysaccharides to fermentable sugars …

Background Termite lignocellulose digestion is achieved through a collaboration of host
plus prokaryotic and eukaryotic symbionts. In the present work, we took a combined host …

Ferulic acid (FA) is one of the most abundant hydroxycinnamic acids in the plant world,
especially in the cell wall of grain bran, in comparison with forage and crop residues …