Lignocellulosic biomass: Biosynthesis, degradation, and industrial utilization

Laccase engineering by rational and evolutionary design

(2015) Isabel Pardo et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Analysis of Cell Wall-Related Genes in Organs of Medicago sativa L. under Different Abiotic Stresses

(2015) Marc Behr et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Destructuring plant biomass: Focus on fungal and extremophilic cell wall hydrolases

(2015) Gea Guerriero et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Engineering the ligninolytic enzyme consortium

(2015) Miguel Alcalde   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The trafficking of the cellulose synthase complex in higher plants

(2014) Logan Bashline et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Engineered thermostable fungal cellulases exhibit efficient synergistic cellulose hydrolysis at elevated temperatures

(2014) Devin L. Trudeau et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Directed evolution of an exoglucanase facilitated by a co-expressed β-glucosidase and construction of a whole engineered cellulase system in Escherichia coli

(2014) Min Liu et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

The dirigent multigene family in Isatis indigotica: gene discovery and differential transcript abundance

(2014) Qing Li et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A review of xylan and lignin biosynthesis: Foundation for studying Arabidopsisirregular xylemmutants with pleiotropic phenotypes

(2014) Zhangying Hao et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A review of biological delignification and detoxification methods for lignocellulosic bioethanol production

(2014) Antonio D. Moreno et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Lignin bioengineering

(2014) Aymerick Eudes et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The CCoAOMT1 gene from jute (Corchorus capsularis L.) is involved in lignin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2014) Gaoyang Zhang et al.   GENE

Trimeric Structure of (+)-Pinoresinol-forming Dirigent Protein at 1.95 Å Resolution with Three Isolated Active Sites

(2014) Kye-Won Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Versatile peroxidase degradation of humic substances: Use of isothermal titration calorimetry to assess kinetics, and applications to industrial wastes

(2014) Khawar Sohail Siddiqui et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Structural perspectives of an engineered β-1,4-xylanase with enhanced thermostability

(2014) Chun-Chi Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Cloning and in silico analysis of a cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase gene in Pennisetum purpureum

(2014) RAN TANG et al.   JOURNAL OF GENETICS

Enhancing the activity of Bacillus circulans xylanase by modulating the flexibility of the hinge region

(2014) Fukura Kazuyo et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Disruption of Mediator rescues the stunted growth of a lignin-deficient Arabidopsis mutant

(2014) Nicholas D. Bonawitz et al.   NATURE

An Arabidopsis gene regulatory network for secondary cell wall synthesis

(2014) M. Taylor-Teeples et al.   NATURE

Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts

(2014) Andreas Brune   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Tailoring lignin biosynthesis for efficient and sustainable biofuel production

(2014) Chang-Jun Liu et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

MiR397b regulates both lignin content and seed number in Arabidopsis via modulating a laccase involved in lignin biosynthesis

(2014) Cong-Ying Wang et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

The Structure of the Catalytic Domain of a Plant Cellulose Synthase and Its Assembly into Dimers

(2014) Anna T. Olek et al.   PLANT CELL

The pattern of xylan acetylation suggests xylan may interact with cellulose microfibrils as a twofold helical screw in the secondary plant cell wall ofArabidopsis thaliana

(2014) Marta Busse-Wicher et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Identification of direct targets of transcription factor MYB46 provides insights into the transcriptional regulation of secondary wall biosynthesis

(2014) Won-Chan Kim et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Chemically Induced Conditional Rescue of the Reduced Epidermal Fluorescence8 Mutant of Arabidopsis Reveals Rapid Restoration of Growth and Selective Turnover of Secondary Metabolite Pools

(2014) J. I. Kim et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Laccases Direct Lignification in the Discrete Secondary Cell Wall Domains of Protoxylem

(2014) M. Schuetz et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Complexity of the transcriptional network controlling secondary wall biosynthesis

(2014) Ruiqin Zhong et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Lignin valorization through integrated biological funneling and chemical catalysis

(2014) J. G. Linger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Discovery of LPMO activity on hemicelluloses shows the importance of oxidative processes in plant cell wall degradation

(2014) J. W. Agger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gill bacteria enable a novel digestive strategy in a wood-feeding mollusk

(2014) Roberta M. O’Connor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lignin Valorization: Improving Lignin Processing in the Biorefinery

(2014) A. J. Ragauskas et al.   SCIENCE

Monolignol Ferulate Transferase Introduces Chemically Labile Linkages into the Lignin Backbone

(2014) C. G. Wilkerson et al.   SCIENCE

Wood biosynthesis and typologies: a molecular rhapsody

(2014) G. Guerriero et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Dirigent proteins: molecular characteristics and potential biotechnological applications

(2013) Benjamin Pickel et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Expansion of the enzymatic repertoire of the CAZy database to integrate auxiliary redox enzymes

(2013) Anthony Levasseur et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Lignin plays a negative role in the biochemical process for producing lignocellulosic biofuels

(2013) Yining Zeng et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Xylan biosynthesis

(2013) Emilie A Rennie et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Fusion of cellulose binding domain from Trichoderma reesei CBHI to Cryptococcus sp. S-2 cellulase enhances its binding affinity and its cellulolytic activity to insoluble cellulosic substrates

(2013) Jantaporn Thongekkaew et al.   ENZYME AND MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY

Improvement of hydrogen peroxide stability of Pleurotus eryngii versatile ligninolytic peroxidase by rational protein engineering

(2013) Xue Bao et al.   ENZYME AND MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY

Integrated -Omics: A Powerful Approach to Understanding the Heterogeneous Lignification of Fibre Crops

(2013) Gea Guerriero et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

A C4-oxidizing Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenase Cleaving Both Cellulose and Cello-oligosaccharides

(2013) Trine Isaksen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Biochemistry and physiological roles of enzymes that ‘cut and paste’ plant cell-wall polysaccharides

(2013) Lenka Franková et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

DyP-type peroxidases: a promising and versatile class of enzymes

(2013) Dana I. Colpa et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Xylan O-Acetylation Impacts Xylem Development and Enzymatic Recalcitrance as Indicated by the Arabidopsis Mutant tbl29

(2013) Guangyan Xiong et al.   Molecular Plant

Neighboring Parenchyma Cells Contribute to Arabidopsis Xylem Lignification, while Lignification of Interfascicular Fibers Is Cell Autonomous

(2013) R. A. Smith et al.   PLANT CELL

GUX1 and GUX2 glucuronyltransferases decorate distinct domains of glucuronoxylan with different substitution patterns

(2013) Jennifer R. Bromley et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Reduced Wall Acetylation Proteins Play Vital and Distinct Roles in Cell Wall O-Acetylation in Arabidopsis

(2013) Y. Manabe et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Hemicellulose biosynthesis

(2013) Markus Pauly et al.   PLANTA

Engineering of Family-5 Glycoside Hydrolase (Cel5A) from an Uncultured Bacterium for Efficient Hydrolysis of Cellulosic Substrates

(2013) Amar A. Telke et al.   PLoS One

Glycosylated linkers in multimodular lignocellulose-degrading enzymes dynamically bind to cellulose

(2013) Christina M. Payne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dirigent domain-containing protein is part of the machinery required for formation of the lignin-based Casparian strip in the root

(2013) P. S. Hosmani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Improved saccharification and ethanol yield from field-grown transgenic poplar deficient in cinnamoyl-CoA reductase

(2013) R. Van Acker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tertiary model of a plant cellulose synthase

(2013) L. Sethaphong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cellulose synthases: new insights from crystallography and modeling

(2013) Erin Slabaugh et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Plant cell wall lignification and monolignol metabolism

(2013) Yin Wang et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Co-production of a whole cellulase system in Escherichia coli

(2012) Min Liu et al.   BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Kinetic and thermodynamic characterization of the functional properties of a hybrid versatile peroxidase using isothermal titration calorimetry: Insight into manganese peroxidase activation and lignin peroxidase inhibition

(2012) Haluk Ertan et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Engineering of plants with improved properties as biofuels feedstocks by vessel-specific complementation of xylan biosynthesis mutants

(2012) Pia Damm Petersen et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Novel enzymes for the degradation of cellulose

(2012) Svein Horn et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Can genetic engineering of lignin deposition be accomplished without an unacceptable yield penalty?

(2012) Nicholas D Bonawitz et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Two Oxidation Sites for Low Redox Potential Substrates

(2012) María Morales et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Improvement of Cellulase Activity Using Error-Prone Rolling Circle Amplification and Site-Directed Mutagenesis

(2012) Van Hanh Vu   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Superparamagnetic nanoparticles as versatile carriers and supporting materials for enzymes

(2012) Caterina G.C.M. Netto et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS B-ENZYMATIC

Metabolic engineering of novel lignin in biomass crops

(2012) Ruben Vanholme et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Engineering secondary cell wall deposition in plants

(2012) Fan Yang et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

An Engineered Monolignol 4-O-Methyltransferase Depresses Lignin Biosynthesis and Confers Novel Metabolic Capability in Arabidopsis

(2012) K. Zhang et al.   PLANT CELL

A Systems Biology View of Responses to Lignin Biosynthesis Perturbations in Arabidopsis

(2012) R. Vanholme et al.   PLANT CELL

Complexes with Mixed Primary and Secondary Cellulose Synthases Are Functional in Arabidopsis Plants

(2012) A. Carroll et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

4-O-methylation of glucuronic acid in Arabidopsis glucuronoxylan is catalyzed by a domain of unknown function family 579 protein

(2012) B. R. Urbanowicz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Glycosyl transferases in family 61 mediate arabinofuranosyl transfer onto xylan in grasses

(2012) N. Anders et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cellobiose Dehydrogenase and a Copper-Dependent Polysaccharide Monooxygenase Potentiate Cellulose Degradation byNeurospora crassa

(2011) Christopher M. Phillips et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Enhancement of a bacterial laccase thermostability through directed mutagenesis of a surface loop

(2011) Nasrin Mollania et al.   ENZYME AND MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY

Tensional stress generation in gelatinous fibres: a review and possible mechanism based on cell-wall structure and composition

(2011) E. J. Mellerowicz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Insights into Hydrogen Bonding and Stacking Interactions in Cellulose

(2011) R. Parthasarathi et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Oxidative Cleavage of Cellulose by Fungal Copper-Dependent Polysaccharide Monooxygenases

(2011) William T. Beeson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

On the Origin and Evolution of Thermophily: Reconstruction of Functional Precambrian Enzymes from Ancestors of Bacillus

(2011) J. K. Hobbs et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Loss-of-Function Mutation of REDUCED WALL ACETYLATION2 in Arabidopsis Leads to Reduced Cell Wall Acetylation and Increased Resistance to Botrytis cinerea

(2011) Y. Manabe et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Putative Endoglucanase PcGH61D from Phanerochaete chrysosporium Is a Metal-Dependent Oxidative Enzyme that Cleaves Cellulose

(2011) Bjørge Westereng et al.   PLoS One

Insights into the oxidative degradation of cellulose by a copper metalloenzyme that exploits biomass components

(2011) R. J. Quinlan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic manipulation of lignin reduces recalcitrance and improves ethanol production from switchgrass

(2011) Chunxiang Fu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Salicylic acid mediates the reduced growth of lignin down-regulated plants

(2011) L. Gallego-Giraldo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cleavage of cellulose by a CBM33 protein

(2011) Zarah Forsberg et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Large-Scale Co-Expression Approach to Dissect Secondary Cell Wall Formation Across Plant Species

(2011) Colin Ruprecht et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Trafficking of the cellulose synthase complex in developing xylem vessels

(2010) Raymond Wightman et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Three amino acid changes contribute markedly to the thermostability of β-glucosidase BglC from Thermobifida fusca

(2010) Xiao-Qiong Pei et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Construction and characterization of different fusion proteins between cellulases and β-glucosidase to improve glucose production and thermostability

(2010) Hsiao-Lin Lee et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Introduction of glycine and proline residues onto protein surface increases the thermostability of endoglucanase CelA from Clostridium thermocellum

(2010) Zhuo-Lin Yi et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

IRX14 and IRX14-LIKE, Two Glycosyl Transferases Involved in Glucuronoxylan Biosynthesis and Drought Tolerance in Arabidopsis

(2010) Brian D. Keppler et al.   Molecular Plant

Macromolecular replication during lignin biosynthesis

(2010) Yi-ru Chen et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Analysis of the Arabidopsis IRX9/IRX9-L and IRX14/IRX14-L Pairs of Glycosyltransferase Genes Reveals Critical Contributions to Biosynthesis of the Hemicellulose Glucuronoxylan

(2010) A.-M. Wu et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Identification of a cellulose synthase-associated protein required for cellulose biosynthesis

(2010) Y. Gu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ATP-binding cassette-like transporters are involved in the transport of lignin precursors across plasma and vacuolar membranes

(2010) Y.-C. Miao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An Oxidative Enzyme Boosting the Enzymatic Conversion of Recalcitrant Polysaccharides

(2010) Gustav Vaaje-Kolstad et al.   SCIENCE

Probing the role of N-linked glycans in the stability and activity of fungal cellobiohydrolases by mutational analysis

(2009) William S. Adney et al.   CELLULOSE

Pausing of Golgi Bodies on Microtubules Regulates Secretion of Cellulose Synthase Complexes in Arabidopsis

(2009) E. F. Crowell et al.   PLANT CELL

Structure and Action Mechanism of Ligninolytic Enzymes

(2008) Dominic W. S. Wong   APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Laying down the bricks: logistic aspects of cell wall biosynthesis

(2008) Daniela A Geisler et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Characterization of IRX10 and IRX10-like reveals an essential role in glucuronoxylan biosynthesis in Arabidopsis

(2008) David M. Brown et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

The cytoplasmic domain of the cellulose-synthesizing complex in vascular plants

(2008) A. J. Bowling et al.   PROTOPLASMA