Bacterial expansins and related proteins from the world of microbes

Binding characteristics and synergistic effects of bacterial expansins on cellulosic and hemicellulosic substrates

(2015) Benjarat Bunterngsook et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Swollenin from Trichoderma reesei exhibits hydrolytic activity against cellulosic substrates with features of both endoglucanases and cellobiohydrolases

(2015) Martina Andberg et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

A Novel Expansin Protein from the White-Rot Fungus Schizophyllum commune

(2015) Omar Eduardo Tovar-Herrera et al.   PLoS One

Improved production of two expansin-like proteins in Pichia pastoris and investigation of their functional properties

(2014) Wanchao Wang et al.   BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Identification of novel bacterial expansins and their synergistic actions on cellulose degradation

(2014) Benjarat Bunterngsook et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Re-constructing our models of cellulose and primary cell wall assembly

(2014) Daniel J Cosgrove   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of Laccaria bicolor CAZome reveals insights into polysaccharides remodelling during symbiosis establishment

(2014) Claire Veneault-Fourrey et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Sequence diversity and gene expression analyses of expansin-related proteins in the white-rot basidiomycete, Phanerochaete carnosa

(2014) Hitoshi Suzuki et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Phylogeny and molecular dating of the cerato-platanin-encoding genes

(2014) Hanying Yu et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Cellulose Surface Degradation by a Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenase and Its Effect on Cellulase Hydrolytic Efficiency

(2014) Manuel Eibinger et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Heterologous expression and functional characterization of a novel cellulose-disruptive protein LeEXP2 from Lycopersicum esculentum

(2014) Xuewei Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Evolutionary divergence of β-expansin structure and function in grasses parallels emergence of distinctive primary cell wall traits

(2014) Javier Sampedro et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

PcExl1 a Novel Acid Expansin-Like Protein from the Plant Pathogen Pectobacterium carotovorum, Binds Cell Walls Differently to BsEXLX1

(2014) Miguel Olarte-Lozano et al.   PLoS One

Cerato-platanin shows expansin-like activity on cellulosic materials

(2013) Ivan Baccelli et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Swollenin aids in the amorphogenesis step during the enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated biomass

(2013) Keith Gourlay et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Characterization of a novel swollenin from Penicillium oxalicum in facilitating enzymatic saccharification of cellulose

(2013) Kang Kang et al.   BMC BIOTECHNOLOGY

Biochemical analysis of expansin-like proteins from microbes

(2013) Nikolaos Georgelis et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Molecular dynamics simulation study of xyloglucan adsorption on cellulose surfaces: effects of surface hydrophobicity and side-chain variation

(2013) Zhen Zhao et al.   CELLULOSE

Visualization of the nanoscale pattern of recently-deposited cellulose microfibrils and matrix materials in never-dried primary walls of the onion epidermis

(2013) Tian Zhang et al.   CELLULOSE

Recent insights into copper-containing lytic polysaccharide mono-oxygenases

(2013) Glyn R Hemsworth et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Cellulose Microfibril Twist, Mechanics, and Implication for Cellulose Biosynthesis

(2013) Zhen Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Solid-State NMR on Bacterial Cells: Selective Cell Wall Signal Enhancement and Resolution Improvement using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

(2013) Hiroki Takahashi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synergetic effect of yeast cell-surface expression of cellulase and expansin-like protein on direct ethanol production from cellulose

(2013) Yuki Nakatani et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Plant Expansins in Bacteria and Fungi: Evolution by Horizontal Gene Transfer and Independent Domain Fusion

(2013) Nikolas Nikolaidis et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Discovery and characterization of a new family of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases

(2013) Glyn R Hemsworth et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Identification and Characterization of Expansins from Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae)

(2013) Dae-Weon Lee et al.   Plant Pathology Journal

Evaluation of Bacterial Expansin EXLX1 as a Cellulase Synergist for the Saccharification of Lignocellulosic Agro-Industrial Wastes

(2013) Hui Lin et al.   PLoS One

Bacillus subtilis biofilm induction by plant polysaccharides

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

Sensitivity-enhanced solid-state NMR detection of expansin's target in plant cell walls

(2013) T. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Revealing Nature's Cellulase Diversity: The Digestion Mechanism of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii CelA

(2013) R. Brunecky et al.   SCIENCE

Growth Control and Cell Wall Signaling in Plants

(2012) Sebastian Wolf et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Binding characteristics of a bacterial expansin (BsEXLX1) for various types of pretreated lignocellulose

(2012) In Jung Kim et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Optimisation of synergistic biomass-degrading enzyme systems for efficient rice straw hydrolysis using an experimental mixture design

(2012) Surisa Suwannarangsee et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Characteristics of the binding of a bacterial expansin (BsEXLX1) to microcrystalline cellulose

(2012) In Jung Kim et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Self-assembly at Air/Water Interfaces and Carbohydrate Binding Properties of the Small Secreted Protein EPL1 from the fungusTrichoderma atroviride

(2012) Alexa Frischmann et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

1H Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Based on an Endogenous Radical

(2012) Thorsten Maly et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

The carbohydrate-binding module of Fragaria × ananassa expansin 2 (CBM-FaExp2) binds to cell wall polysaccharides and decreases cell wall enzyme activities “in vitro”

(2012) Cristina Nardi et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

A Revised Architecture of Primary Cell Walls Based on Biomechanical Changes Induced by Substrate-Specific Endoglucanases

(2012) Y. B. Park et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Structural basis for entropy-driven cellulose binding by a type-A cellulose-binding module (CBM) and bacterial expansin

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

Blue native-PAGE analysis of Trichoderma harzianum secretome reveals cellulases and hemicellulases working as multienzymatic complexes

(2012) Adelson Joel da Silva et al.   PROTEOMICS

Nanocelluloses: A New Family of Nature-Based Materials

(2011) Dieter Klemm et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Quantitative investigation of non-hydrolytic disruptive activity on crystalline cellulose and application to recombinant swollenin

(2011) Yuguo Wang et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

How recombinant swollenin from Kluyveromyces lactis affects cellulosic substrates and accelerates their hydrolysis

(2011) Gernot Jäger et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Structure-Function Analysis of the Bacterial Expansin EXLX1

(2011) Nikolaos Georgelis et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The Structure of the Elicitor Cerato-platanin (CP), the First Member of the CP Fungal Protein Family, Reveals a Double ψβ-Barrel Fold and Carbohydrate Binding

(2011) Aline L. de Oliveira et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Loosenin, a novel protein with cellulose-disrupting activity from Bjerkandera adusta

(2011) Rosa E Quiroz-Castañeda et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

BcSpl1, a cerato-platanin family protein, contributes to Botrytis cinerea virulence and elicits the hypersensitive response in the host

(2011) Marcos Frías et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Matrix solubilization and cell wall weakening by β-expansin (group-1 allergen) from maize pollen

(2011) Akira Tabuchi et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Structural insights into a unique cellulase fold and mechanism of cellulose hydrolysis

(2011) J. L. A. Bras et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Access to cellulose limits the efficiency of enzymatic hydrolysis: the role of amorphogenesis

(2010) Valdeir Arantes et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Cellulose Nanocrystals: Chemistry, Self-Assembly, and Applications

(2010) Youssef Habibi et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Role of an expansin-like molecule in Dictyostelium morphogenesis and regulation of its gene expression by the signal transducer and activator of transcription protein Dd-STATa

(2010) Shun Ogasawara et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

An expansin-like protein from Hahella chejuensis binds cellulose and enhances cellulase activity

(2010) Hee Jin Lee et al.   MOLECULES AND CELLS

The Biochemistry and Structural Biology of Plant Cell Wall Deconstruction

(2010) H. J. Gilbert   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Carbohydrate-binding modules promote the enzymatic deconstruction of intact plant cell walls by targeting and proximity effects

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

Molecular variability of group 1 and 5 grass pollen allergens between Pooideae species: implications for immunotherapy

(2009) H. Chabre et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY

Identification of putative expansin-like genes from the pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, and evolution of the expansin gene family within the Nematoda

(2009) Taisei Kikuchi et al.   NEMATOLOGY

Gene Cloning and Heterologous Expression of a Novel Endoglucanase, Swollenin, fromTrichoderma pseudokoningiiS38

(2008) Qiang YAO et al.   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Functional characterization of a bacterial expansin fromBacillus subtilisfor enhanced enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose

(2008) Eun Sil Kim et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

EglD, a putative endoglucanase, with an expansin like domain is localized in the conidial cell wall of Aspergillus nidulans

(2008) Demetra Bouzarelou et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Role of Swollenin, an Expansin-Like Protein from Trichoderma, in Plant Root Colonization

(2008) Y. Brotman et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Crystal structure and activity of Bacillus subtilis YoaJ (EXLX1), a bacterial expansin that promotes root colonization

(2008) F. Kerff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lytic transglycosylases: Bacterial space-making autolysins

(2007) Edie Scheurwater et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY