Expansion of the enzymatic repertoire of the CAZy database to integrate auxiliary redox enzymes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since its inception, the carbohydrate-active enzymes database (CAZy; http://www.cazy.org) has described the families of enzymes that cleave or build complex carbohydrates, namely the glycoside hydrolases (GH), the polysaccharide lyases (PL), the carbohydrate esterases (CE), the glycosyltransferases (GT) and their appended non-catalytic carbohydrate-binding modules (CBM). The recent discovery that members of families CBM33 and family GH61 are in fact lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMO), demands a reclassification of these families into a suitable category.

Results

Because lignin is invariably found together with polysaccharides in the plant cell wall and because lignin fragments are likely to act in concert with (LPMO), we have decided to join the families o

SUBMITTER: Levasseur A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3620520 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature