Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 2023
High potential for biomass-degrading CAZymes revealed by pine forest soil metagenomics
Sonam Kumari, Jorge S. Leon Magdaleno, Ravneet Kaur Grewal, Manik Prabhu Narsing Rao, Abdul Rajjak Shaikh, Luigi Cavallo, Mohit Chawla, Manoj Kumar
This study uses metagenomics, sequencing all the DNA in an environmental sample, to mine pine-forest soil in Netarhat, India, for microbes that can break down plant biomass. From the soil’s collective genome it identified thousands of carbohydrate-active enzyme genes, with glycoside hydrolases most abundant, and modelled a representative enzyme that favoured cellulose. Such enzymes could lower the cost of turning biomass into biofuel.
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Sonam Kumari, Jorge S. Leon Magdaleno, Ravneet Kaur Grewal, Manik Prabhu Narsing Rao, Abdul Rajjak Shaikh, Luigi Cavallo, Mohit Chawla, Manoj Kumar (2023) High potential for biomass-degrading CAZymes revealed by pine forest soil metagenomics. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2023.2262600
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