Cellulose Degradation by Cellulose-clearing and Non-cellulose-clearing Brown-rot Fungi

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Journal Appl Environ Microbiol

Specialties Environmental Health
Microbiology

Date 1980 Dec 1

PMID 16345675

Citations 2

Authors

T L Highley

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Abstract

Cellulose degradation by four cellulose-clearing brown-rot fungi in the Coniophoraceae-Coniophora prasinoides, C. puteana, Leucogyrophana arizonica, and L. olivascens-is compared with that of a non-cellulose-clearing brown-rot fungus, Poria placenta. The cellulose- and the non-cellulose-clearing brown-rot fungi apparently employ similar mechanisms to depolymerize cellulose; most likely a nonenzymatic mechanism is involved.

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