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Diversity of glycosyl hydrolases from cellulose-depleting communities enriched from casts of two earthworm species.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Sept 2010
Beloqui Ana, Nechitaylo Taras Y, López-Cortés Nieves, Ghazi Azam, Guazzaroni María-Eugenia, Polaina Julio, Strittmatter Axel W, Reva Oleg, Waliczek Agnes, Yakimov Michail M, Golyshina Olga V, Ferrer Manuel, Golyshin Peter N
Abstract excerpt
The guts and casts of earthworms contain microbial assemblages that process large amounts of organic polymeric substrates from plant litter and soil; however, the enzymatic potential of these microbial communities remains largely unexplored. In the present work, we retrieved carbohydrate-modifying enzymes through the activity screening of metagenomic fosmid libraries from cellulose-depleting microbial communities...
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