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Occurrence of lignin degradation genotypes and phenotypes among prokaryotes

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A number of prokaryotes actively contribute to lignin degradation in nature and their activity could be of interest for many applications including the production of biogas/biofuel from lignocellulosic biomass and biopulping. This review compares the reliability and efficiency of the culture-dependent screening methods currently used for the isolation of ligninolytic prokaryotes. Isolated prokaryotes exhibiting lignin-degrading potential are presented according to their phylogenetic groups. With the development of bioinformatics, culture-independent techniques are emerging that allow larger-scale data mining for ligninolytic prokaryotic functions but today, these techniques still have some limits. In this work, two phylogenetic affiliations of isolated prokaryotes exhibiting ligninolytic potential and laccase-encoding prokaryotes were determined on the basis of 16S rDNA sequences, providing a comparative view of results obtained by the two types of screening techniques. The combination of laboratory culture and bioinformatics approaches is a promising way to explore lignin-degrading prokaryotes.

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    Jiang-Hao Tian, Anne-Marie Pourcher & Pascal Peu

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    Jiang-Hao Tian, Anne-Marie Pourcher & Pascal Peu

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    Eric Gelhaye

  5. Université de Lorraine, Interactions Arbres—Microorganismes, UMR1136, 54500, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

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Tian, JH., Pourcher, AM., Bouchez, T. et al. Occurrence of lignin degradation genotypes and phenotypes among prokaryotes. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 98, 9527–9544 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-014-6142-4

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