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Fusarium polycaprolactone depolymerase is cutinase.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 1996
Murphy C A, Cameron J A, Huang S J, Vinopal R T
Abstract excerpt
Polycaprolactone (PCL), a synthetic polyester, is degraded by a variety of microorganisms, including some phytopathogens. Many phytopathogens secrete cutinase, a serine hydrolase that degrades cutin, the structural polymer of the plant cuticle. We compared wild-type strains and a cutinase-negative gene replacement mutant strain of Fusarium solani f. sp. pisi (D. J. Stahl and W. Schäfer, Plant Cell 4:621-629,...
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