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SUBMITTER: Murashima K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC148067 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Murashima Koichiro K Kosugi Akihiko A Doi Roy H RH
Journal of bacteriology 20030301 5
Plant cell walls are comprised of cellulose and hemicellulose and other polymers that are intertwined, and this complex structure presents a barrier to degradation by pure cellulases or hemicellulases. In this study, we determined the synergistic effects on corn cell wall degradation by the action of cellulosomal xylanase XynA and cellulosomal cellulases from Clostridium cellulovorans. XynA minicellulosomes and cellulase minicellulosomes were found to degrade corn cell walls synergistically but ...[more]