Article
Induction of lignocellulose-degrading enzymes in Neurospora crassa by cellodextrins.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Apr 2012
Znameroski Elizabeth A, Coradetti Samuel T, Roche Christine M, Tsai Jordan C, Iavarone Anthony T, Cate Jamie H D, Glass N Louise
Abstract excerpt
Neurospora crassa colonizes burnt grasslands in the wild and metabolizes both cellulose and hemicellulose from plant cell walls. When switched from a favored carbon source such as sucrose to cellulose, N. crassa dramatically upregulates expression and secretion of a wide variety of genes encoding lignocellulolytic enzymes. However, the means by which N. crassa and other filamentous fungi sense the presence of...
Topics
- Cellobiose
- Cellulase
- Cellulases
- Cellulose
- Cluster Analysis
- Dextrins
- Fungal Proteins
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic