Wood-degrading enzymes

Kim et al. (67) P. placenta Polyclonal antiserum was produced to P. placenta extracellular metabolites red spruce and birch were degraded by P. placenta using the soil-block procedure degraded wood-block samples were prepared for TEM and the immunoelectron localization of wood-degrading enzymes Extracellular membrane structures (matrix) were observed surrounding hyphae, which degraded spruce and birch wood the matrix labeled positively with antisera produced to P. placenta extracellular metabolites... 

Green et al. (69) P. plancenta P. placenta (Fr.) 7. Lars et Lomb Extracellular wood degrading enzymes... 

Westermark, V. and K.-E. Eriksson. 1974. Cellobiose quinone oxidoreductase, a new wood-degrading enzyme from white rot fimgi. Acta Chemica Scandinavica B 28 209-214. 

Recovering Extracellular Degradative Enzymes from Lentinula edodes Cultures Grown on Commercial Wood Medium... 

Wood-degrading fungi produce a family of pyranose oxidases (EC 1.1.3.10), enzymes catalyzing the oxidation at C-2 of several aldoses. A simple and convenient conversion of D-glucose into D-arabino-hexos-2-ulose involves the use of a pyranose-2-oxidase isolated from Polyporus obtusus, which was purified and immobilized on activated CH-Sepharose 4B.446... 

Bermek H, Yazici H, Oztiirk MH et al (2004) Purification and characterization of manganese peroxidase from wood-degrading fungus Trichophyton rubrum LSK-27. Enzyme Microb Technol 35 87-92... 

Wood, T. M. and McCrae, S. I., Arabinoxylan-degrading enzyme system of the fungus Aspergillus awamori purification and properties of an alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 1996,45 (4), 538-45. 

Castanares, A., Hay, A. J., Gordon, A. H., McCrae, S. I., and Wood, T. M., D-xylan-degrading enzyme system from the fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium isolation and partial characterisation of an alpha-(4-0-methyl)-D-glucuronidase. J Biotechnol 1995, 43 (3), 183-94. 

T. M. Wood in Enzyme Systems for Ligno-cellulose Degradation M. P. Coughlan (ed), Elsevier Applied Science, London, England, 1989, pp. 17-35. 

All wood-degrading fungi and bacteria need water for their life processes and as a medium for the distribution of their degrading enzymes. Wood with a moisture content below fiber saturation will not be degraded by microorganisms. Insects that feed on or nest in wood are, however, fully capable of more or less complete destruction of the structure of dry wood. 

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