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Draft Genome Sequence of the Lignocellulose-Degrading Ascomycete Coniochaeta p ulveracea CAB 683.

ABSTRACT: Coniochaeta pulveracea is a soft-rot-causing ascomycete able to degrade lignocellulosic biomass. The first draft genome sequence of strain CAB 683 reported here has an estimated size of 30?Mb assembled into 852 scaffolds and 10,035 predicted protein-coding genes.

SUBMITTER: Borstlap CJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6318365 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Draft Genome Sequence of the Lignocellulose-Degrading Ascomycete Coniochaeta p ulveracea CAB 683.

Borstlap Cornelius Johannes CJ de Witt Riaan Neethling RN Botha Alfred A Volschenk Heinrich H

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Coniochaeta pulveracea is a soft-rot-causing ascomycete able to degrade lignocellulosic biomass. The first draft genome sequence of strain CAB 683 reported here has an estimated size of 30 Mb assembled into 852 scaffolds and 10,035 predicted protein-coding genes. ...[more]

PMID: 30637394

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Project description:Economic valorization of lignocellulose is paramount to realizing a true circular bioeconomy; however, this requires the development of systems and processes to expand the repertoire of bioproducts beyond current renewable fuels, chemicals, and sustainable materials. Parascedosporium putredinis NO1 is an ascomycete that thrived at the later stages of a wheat-straw composting community culture, indicating a propensity to degrade recalcitrant lignin-enriched biomass, but exists within an underrepresented and underexplored fungal lineage. This strain has been proven to be an exciting candidate for the identification of new enzymes targeting recalcitrant components of lignocellulose following the recent discovery of a new lignin β-ether linkage cleaving enzyme. The first genome for the genus Parascedosporium for P. putredinis NO1 genome was sequenced, assembled, and annotated. The genome is 39 Mb in size, consisting of 21 contigs annotated to contain 9.998 protein-coding sequences. The carbohydrate-active enzyme (CAZyme) repertoire was compared to 2570 ascomycete genomes and in detail with Trichoderma reesei, Fusarium oxysporum, and sister taxa Scedosporium boydii. Significant expansion in the oxidative auxiliary activity class of CAZymes was observed in the P. putredinis NO1 genome, resulting from increased sequences encoding putative lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs), oxidative enzymes acting within LPMO redox systems, and lignin-degrading laccases. P. putredinis NO1 scored above the 95th percentile for AA gene density across the ascomycete phylum, suggesting a primarily oxidative strategy for lignocellulose breakdown. Novel structure-based searching approaches were employed, revealing 17 new sequences with structural similarity to LPMO, laccase, and peroxidase sequences and which are potentially new lignocellulose-degrading enzymes.IMPORTANCEAn annotated reference genome has revealed P. putredinis NO1 as a useful resource for the identification of new lignocellulose-degrading enzymes for biorefining of woody plant biomass. Utilizing a "structure-omics"-based searching strategy, we identified new potentially lignocellulose-active sequences that would have been missed by traditional sequence searching methods. These new identifications, alongside the discovery of novel enzymatic functions from this underexplored lineage with the recent discovery of a new phenol oxidase that cleaves the main structural β-O-4 linkage in lignin from P. putredinis NO1, highlight the underexplored and poorly represented family Microascaceae as a particularly interesting candidate worthy of further exploration toward the valorization of high value biorenewable products.

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Draft Genome Sequence of the Lignocellulose-Degrading Ascomycete Coniochaeta p ulveracea CAB 683.

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Draft Genome Sequence of the Lignocellulose-Degrading Ascomycete <i>Coniochaeta p</i> <i>ulveracea</i> CAB 683.

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