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Origins and features of pectate lyases and their applications in industry

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Pectate lyase treatment can be an alternative strategy of the chemical processing, which causes severe environmental pollution, and has been broadly studied and applied for diverse industrial applications including textile industry, beverage industry, pulp processing, pectic wastewater pretreatment, and oil extraction. This review gave a brief description of the origins, enzymatic characterizations, structure, and applications of pectate lyases (Pels). Most of the reported pectate lyases are originated from microorganisms with a small number of them from plants and animals. Due to the diverse environments that these microorganisms exist, Pels present diversified features, especially for the range of optimal pH and temperature. The diversified biochemical properties of Pels define their applications in different industries, and the applications of alkaline Pels on cotton bioscouring and ramie degumming in textile industry were focused in this review. This review also discussed the perspectives of the development and applications of Pels.

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• The first review on pectate lyase focusing on biotechnological applications.

• Origins, features, structures, applications of pectate lyases reviewed.

• Applications of alkaline Pels in textile industry demonstrated.

• Perspectives on future development and applications of Pels discussed.

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This work was supported by grants from Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2018CFB319) and Hubei Technological Innovation Special Fund (2017ACA171).

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GZ conceived the frame of the article. PW performed the literature search, data analysis, and drafted the manuscript. ZZ provided the industrial application data. GZ and SY critically revised the manuscript, and all authors contributed to the writing, reading and approval of the final manuscript.

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Correspondence to Guimin Zhang.

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Wu, P., Yang, S., Zhan, Z. et al. Origins and features of pectate lyases and their applications in industry. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 104, 7247–7260 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-020-10769-8

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