Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms232213808
Keywords
alcohol oxidase; white rot; brown rot; fungi; lignin
Funding
- Polish Scientific Project BS/UMCS
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This review discusses the role of yeast alcohol oxidase (AO) and basidiomycetous AO in wood degradation. The physicochemical and kinetic properties of alcohol oxidases from white and brown rot fungi are described, as well as the analysis of AO-encoding gene promoter regions. It is suggested that basidiomycetous AO is important in secondary reactions during lignin decomposition and may serve as a detoxifying enzyme and carbon source for fungal mycelium.
Extensive research efforts have been devoted to describing yeast alcohol oxidase (AO) and its promoter region, which is vastly applied in studies of heterologous gene expression. However, little is known about basidiomycetous AO and its physiological role in wood degradation. This review describes several alcohol oxidases from both white and brown rot fungi, highlighting their physicochemical and kinetic properties. Moreover, the review presents a detailed analysis of available AO-encoding gene promoter regions in basidiomycetous fungi with a discussion of the manipulations of culture conditions in relation to the modification of alcohol oxidase gene expression and changes in enzyme production. The analysis of reactions catalyzed by lignin-modifying enzymes (LME) and certain lignin auxiliary enzymes (LDA) elucidated the possible involvement of alcohol oxidase in the degradation of derivatives of this polymer. Combined data on lignin degradation pathways suggest that basidiomycetous AO is important in secondary reactions during lignin decomposition by wood degrading fungi. With numerous alcoholic substrates, the enzyme is probably engaged in a variety of catalytic reactions leading to the detoxification of compounds produced in lignin degradation processes and their utilization as a carbon source by fungal mycelium.
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