Hemocyanin facilitates lignocellulose digestion by wood-boring marine crustaceans

Hemocyanin facilitates lignocellulose digestion by wood-boring marine crustaceans

Marine woodborers can digest woody biomass without the help of gut microbiota but the mechanism has remained unclear. Here, the authors provide evidence that the woodborer’s respiratory protein hemocyanin plays a central role in wood digestion and may offer a route toward biorefining of woody plant...

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Main Authors: Katrin Besser, Graham P. Malyon, William S. Eborall, Giovanni Paro da Cunha, Jefferson G. Filgueiras, Adam Dowle, Lourdes Cruz Garcia, Samuel J. Page, Ray Dupree, Marcelo Kern, Leonardo D. Gomez, Yi Li, Luisa Elias, Federico Sabbadin, Shaza E. Mohamad, Giovanna Pesante, Clare Steele-King, Eduardo Ribeiro de Azevedo, Igor Polikarpov, Paul Dupree, Simon M. Cragg, Neil C. Bruce, Simon J. McQueen-Mason
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/76b9cdff7f0742b2900c1a0a150bdd57
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Summary:Marine woodborers can digest woody biomass without the help of gut microbiota but the mechanism has remained unclear. Here, the authors provide evidence that the woodborer’s respiratory protein hemocyanin plays a central role in wood digestion and may offer a route toward biorefining of woody plant biomass.

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