The effect of soluble phenolic compounds from hydrothermally pretreated wheat straw on Trichoderma reesei cellulases and commercial enzyme cocktails

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2024-01

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14

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Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, Volume 14, issue 1, pp. 971-984

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Hydrothermal methods are commonly applied in pretreatment of lignocellulose for conversion to biofuels and chemicals. This pretreatment partially disassembles and solubilizes hemicelluloses and lignin, releasing sugars and phenolic compounds, which are potential inhibitors for the subsequent enzymatic saccharification step. In this work, the inhibitory effect of soluble phenolics in hydrothermal pretreatment liquor on canonical Trichoderma reesei enzymes was investigated, using purified cellobiohydrolases, endoglucanases, a xylanase, and a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase, as well as commercial enzyme cocktails Cellic Ctec2 and Celluclast. The pretreatment liquor was fractionated to enrich the phenolics, and thoroughly analyzed. The most sensitive to phenolics inhibition were cellobiohydrolases, the major enzymes in crystalline cellulose degradation and the primary component in cellulolytic mixtures. These were inhibited by the oligophenolics and phenol-carbohydrate complexes (lignin-carbohydrate complex type of compounds), the latter of which could be mitigated by other enzymes, i.e., xylanases and endoglucanases. Addition of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase to the hydrolysis reactions was found to relieve the negative effect of phenolics. Similarly, hydrolytic activity of a commercial enzyme cocktail Cellic Ctec2 was enhanced in the presence of low concentrations of phenolics.

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Funding Information: Open Access funding provided by Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT). This work was funded by the INNO INDIGO Partnership Programme Biobased Energy (grant # 311971) and by the Estonian Research Council (grant, PRG1236). We are also grateful for the support by the FinnCERES Bioeconomy Ecosystem (Academy of Finland). Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).

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Cellobiohydrolases, Cellulases, Hydrothermal pretreatment, Inhibition, Lignin-carbohydrate complexes, Phenolic compounds, Wheat straw, XAD-7 resin

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Borisova, A S, Pihlajaniemi, V, Kont, R, Niemelä, K, Koitto, T, Mikkelson, A, Väljamäe, P, Kruus, K & Marjamaa, K 2024, ' The effect of soluble phenolic compounds from hydrothermally pretreated wheat straw on Trichoderma reesei cellulases and commercial enzyme cocktails ', Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 971-984 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-02674-z