Lignin-Degrading Enzyme from the Hymenomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium Burds
Abstract
The extracellular fluid of ligninolytic cultures of the wood-decomposing basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium Burds. contains an enzyme that degrades lignin substructure model compounds as well as spruce and birch lignins. It has a molecular size of 42,000 daltons and requires hydrogen peroxide for activity.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- August 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.221.4611.661
- Bibcode:
- 1983Sci...221..661T