Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Discovery of fungal oligosaccharide-oxidising flavo-enzymes with previously unknown substrates, redox-activity profiles and interplay with LPMOs

  • Majid Haddad Momeni,
  • Folmer Fredslund,
  • Bastien Bissaro,
  • Olanrewaju Raji,
  • Thu V. Vuong,
  • Sebastian Meier,
  • Tine Sofie Nielsen,
  • Vincent Lombard,
  • Bruno Guigliarelli,
  • Frédéric Biaso,
  • Mireille Haon,
  • Sacha Grisel,
  • Bernard Henrissat,
  • Ditte Hededam Welner,
  • Emma R. Master,
  • Jean-Guy Berrin,
  • Maher Abou Hachem

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22372-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Microbial oxidoreductases are key in biomass breakdown. Here, the authors expand the specificity and redox scope within fungal auxiliary activity 7 family (AA7) enzymes and show that AA7 oligosaccharide dehydrogenases can directly fuel cellulose degradation by lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases.