title: The prospects of cellulase-producing bacteria for the bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass.
abstract: Lignocellulosic biomass is a renewable and abundant resource with great potential for bioconversion to value-added bioproducts. However, the biorefining process remains economically unfeasible due to a lack of biocatalysts that can overcome costly hurdles such as cooling from high temperature, pumping of oxygen/stirring, and, neutralization from acidic or basic pH. The extreme environmental resistance of bacteria permits screening and isolation of novel cellulases to help overcome these challenges. Rapid, efficient cellulase screening techniques, using cellulase assays and metagenomic libraries, are a must. Rare cellulases with activities on soluble and crystalline cellulose have been isolated from strains of Paenibacillus and Bacillus and shown to have high thermostability and/or activity over a wide pH spectrum. While novel cellulases from strains like Cellulomonas flavigena and Terendinibacter turnerae, produce multifunctional cellulases with broader substrate utilization. These enzymes offer a framework for enhancement of cellulases including: specific activity, thermalstability, or end-product inhibition. In addition, anaerobic bacteria like the clostridia offer potential due to species capable of producing compound multienzyme complexes called cellulosomes. Cellulosomes provide synergy and close proximity of enzymes to substrate, increasing activity towards crystalline cellulose. This has lead to the construction of designer cellulosomes enhanced for specific substrate activity. Furthermore, cellulosome-producing Clostridium thermocellum and its ability to ferment sugars to ethanol; its amenability to co-culture and, recent advances in genetic engineering, offer a promising future in biofuels. The exploitation of bacteria in the search for improved enzymes or strategies provides a means to upgrade feasibility for lignocellulosic biomass conversion, ultimately providing means to a 'greener' technology.
authors.affiliation: Biorefining Research Initiative, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Miranda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maki
authors.forename: Kam Tin
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: Wensheng
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Qin
mesh_terms: D001407:Bacillus / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism; D001419:Bacteria / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000378:metabolism; D002480:Cellulase / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000378:metabolism*; D044603:Cellulosomes / Q000378:metabolism; D048013:Acetivibrio thermocellus / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002480:Cellulase
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