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The cellulase system of Neocallimastix frontalis was separated by differential affinity on cellulose into an adsorbed fraction that could solubilize crystalline cellulose (crystalline-cellulose-solubilizing fraction, CCSF), and a non-adsorbed fraction that contained endoglucanase and β-glucosidase activities (non-adsorbed endoglucanase/ β-glucosidas, NAE/β-G) but which showed no activity to crystalline cellulose. Both fractions were tested for their capacity to act synergistically with the cellobiohydrolase (CBH) components of aerobic fungi in degrading crystalline cellulose. The CCSF acted synergistically with CBH I components of both Penicillium pinophilum and Trichoderma koningii but not with CBH II. The NAE/β-G fraction also acted synergistically with the CBH components of P. pinophilum but, remarkably, only when both CBH I and CBH II were present in the reaction mixture. By comparison with previously published studies on the mechanism of action of P. pinophilum cellulase it is speculated that the CCSF of N. frontalis may contain CBH I- and CBH II-type enzymes.
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Wood, T.M., Wilson, C.A. & McCrae, S.I. Synergism between components of the cellulase system of the anaerobic rumen fungus Neocallimastix frontalis and those of the aerobic fungi Penicillium pinophilum and Trichoderma koningii in degrading crystalline cellulose. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 41, 257–261 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00186969
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00186969