木质素酶及其生产菌的筛选育种

木质素酶降解木质纤维素材料中的木质素,使木质素-半纤维素-纤维素结构解体,纤维素得以暴露出来供后续步骤处理.它广泛应用于生物制浆、生物漂白、废水处理等工业过程中.由于近年利用可再生木质纤维素材料用酶法水解生产酒精成了研究热点,因而作为纤维素材料生物转化工艺预处理过程中的关键角色,木质素酶也极大地唤起人们的研究兴趣.本文介绍了木质素与白腐真菌(Phanerochaete chrysosporium)木质素降解酶系的特征以及锰过氧化物酶、木质素过氧化物酶、漆酶等3种木质素酶的催化作用机理,归纳了目前流行的木质素酶产生菌的筛选方法及近年来从自然界筛选木质素酶高产菌的种类,并对产木质素酶野生菌株的诱变育种与基因工程改造的进展进行了阐述.     

木质素生物炼制研究进展

木质素为天然的芳香族聚合物,是自然界第二大丰富的可再生碳源,占木质纤维素干重的15%~30%。因木质素富含芳香族结构,故其具有极高的应用价值。生物法转化利用木质素具有专一性强和环境友好等特点,使得木质素生物炼制成为研究热点。本文根据国内外研究进展,从木质素降解酶的研究现状、芳香族化合物胞内代谢途径及木质素生物基化学品研究进展等几个方面做了综述。     

木质素锌肥在粤北石灰性土壤上的生物有效性研究

木质素锌肥是利用造纸工业副产品木质素为原料合成的一种有机微肥,通过淋溶与盆栽试验研究了木质素锌肥与无机锌肥在粤北两种石灰性土壤上的生物有效性差异．结果表明。木质素螯合锌被土壤固定、吸附量要明显小于无机锌,对于土壤B,当Zn用量为10mg·kg^-1时,木质素锌肥处理锌溶出量比无机锌高65．2％;施用木质素锌肥的处理玉米长势好,不仅生物量高过无机锌肥,而且更有利于玉米对锌的吸收,在土壤A上,当Zn用量为10mg·kg^-1时,木质素锌肥处理的生物量比无机锌增产16．3％。植株锌含量比无机锌肥高81．2％,木质素锌肥的生物有效性优于无机锌肥。     

木质素降解菌Bax的筛选及特性研究

为了高效降解造纸污水中木质素类化合物,采用苯胺兰和鞣酸平板法从腐木分离、筛选得到一株具有高降解木质素活性的丝状真菌,经鉴定为绿色木霉,命名为Bax.最适碳源为葡萄糖和蔗糖,最适氮源为蛋白胨和尿紊,最适酸碱度为pH 5.0,最适温度为30℃.通过对木质素氧化酶系分析,主要起作用的是漆酶和木质素酶,为造纸污水的处理奠定了基础.     

漆酶／介体体系降解黄麻纤维木质素的研究

为了研究漆酶／介体处理过程中,黄麻纤维木质素结构的变化,采用二氧六环水溶液抽提制取了黄麻纤维木质素,再用漆酶／介体对其处理,通过GPC、元素分析、酚羟基含量测定、红外光谱以及核磁共振氢谱分析了漆酶／介体处理后,黄麻纤维木质素结构的变化。结果表明：经漆酶／介体处理后,黄麻纤维木质素重均分子量和数均分子量减小,酚羟基、醇羟基以及甲氧基含量降低,羰基含量增加。     

木质素复合水凝胶性能及应用的研究进展北大核心CSCD

木质素是自然界中储量仅次于纤维素的木质纤维素资源,也是唯一的天然芳香族聚合物,其衍生的高值化产品可以应用于多个领域。木质素的高效高值高质生产是木质纤维素生物炼制的关键所在,但木质素大分子结构复杂多变、反应的活性差、官能团冗杂,制备出性能稳定的高分子材料有一定的难度。随着木质素改性的研究越来越深入,木质素复合水凝胶的应用也受到了极大的关注。本文从木质素的基本结构组成与反应特性出发,简要概括了木质素复合水凝胶的制备方法;具体介绍了木质素复合水凝胶的应用现状,包括生物传感器、控制释放材料、环境响应材料、吸附材料、电极材料以及其他材料的应用;综述了木质素复合水凝胶的最新研究与应用进展,并对木质素制备复合水凝胶的发展前景进行了评述。     

白腐菌木质素降解酶及其在木质素降解过程中的相互作用

木质素是一类不易降解的生物物质,在自然界中,白腐真菌对木质素的降解能力最强.白腐真菌降解木质素主要依靠分泌的三种酶:木质素过氧化物酶(Lip)、锰过氧化物酶(MnP)和漆酶(Lac).对白腐真菌分泌的三种木质素降解酶在性质、分布等方面进行了比较,系境地介绍三种木质素降解酶的催化作用,并阐述其在木质素降解过程中的相互作用.     

真菌降解木质素研究进展及在好氧堆肥中的研究展望

综述了近十年来真菌降解木质素的研究进展,包括木质素的存在与结构,真菌降解木质素生物学、酶系及作用机理、生理学以及在环境工程中应用方面的研究进展,并对好氧堆肥处理城市垃圾中木质素生物降解的研究作了展望 。     

生物炼制过程中木质素高值转化研究进展

木质素高值转化对于提升生物炼制经济性,促进社会经济绿色发展具有重要意义。然而,木质素结构复杂且不均一,其高值化利用仍存在技术壁垒,使得木质素应用尚未形成规模。文中首先综述了当前生物炼制过程中木质素高值转化面临的主要挑战。然后通过比较不同预处理技术对木质素分离、性质及其利用的主要影响,详细阐述了基于生物炼制理念发展的新型组合预处理技术。其次,针对木质素本征结构特性导致其利用效率低等问题,进一步详述了溶剂分级、膜分级、梯度沉淀分级等分级利用策略对克服木质素不均一性,改善其可加工性能的重要影响。再次,针对木质素利用策略,系统比较了木质素热化学转化和生物转化,结合生物质预处理及木质素分级,阐述了以生物炼制理念进行木质素高值转化的新策略。最后,总结了木质素利用过程中存在的挑战性问题,展望了木质素高效分离、分级及转化过程发展的新策略和新趋势。     

木质素能源转化的研究进展

木质素具有较高的碳含量和热值,其最直接的利用方式是转化为各种能源产品,包括燃料和电能。因此,以来源丰富的木质素为原料转化制备生物质能源具有重要的意义。本文概述了近年来木质素转化为生物质能源的研究进展,包括木质素来源及提取、木质素热化学转化为生物燃料以及木质素发电技术,着重介绍了木质素的热解反应、气化反应、液化反应以及催化加氢脱氧反应,并总结了直接木质素燃料电池发电的最新研究成果。最后对木质素能源转化的研究前景进行了展望,提出实现工业化生产需根据目标产物需求开发新型催化剂、优化转化过程、建立低能耗且高效率的产物分离方法并加强木质素产电中电极材料、电池设计等研究,为木质素高值化、资源化和能源化利用提供参考。     

On the role of cell wall lignin in determining the fineness of jute fibre

Though finer quality fibre is of great demand in the industry, a reasonable biological assessment of the factors controlling jute fibre fineness is lacking. Our aim was to relate lignin synthesis and accumulation in the secondary wall of the fibre cells with fibre fineness by anatomical and physiological evidences. Several jute genotypes including a low lignin mutant, dlpf (INGR No. 04107) and its lignin sufficient parent (JRC 212) were grown under different growth conditions. Their cell wall morphology and cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin content of fibre were estimated. The fineness of the extracted fibre was examined gravimetrically as well as by air-flow method on individual plant basis to relate it with their chemical constituents. Effect of incident light and some plant growth regulators on glucan and lignin biosynthetic enzymes as well as fibre fineness was determined. Positive relationship between cell wall thickness and lignin and negative relationship between fibre fineness and lignin of jute fibre were established. Application of the GA biosynthetic inhibitor helped to reduce lignin synthesis and to increase fibre fineness. Genotypes with thinner cell wall and lesser lignin may be utilized in breeding for improving the fibre fineness of jute. Field application of GA biosynthetic inhibitors, like daminozide, is recommended to reduce the cell wall thickness of lignin sufficient high yielding jute varieties.     

木质素的微生物解聚与高值转化

木质纤维素是地球上最丰富的可再生资源。我国每年产生约9亿吨农业秸秆,因得不到有效利用,不仅造成资源浪费,也产生了诸多严峻的环境问题。缺少木质素的高效降解和资源化利用技术是限制木质纤维素产业化的主要瓶颈之一。虽然木质素的降解与转化多年来一直都受到关注,但是由于木质素结构的复杂性及异质性,使其高效利用受限。近年来,微生物具有的“生物漏斗”式转化特性为木质素的高值转化和利用提供了新方向。本文就生物质利用研究以来,微生物在木质素解聚与转化方面的研究历程与最新进展进行了简要的回顾与总结,并初步讨论了目前木质素高值转化面临的机遇与挑战。     

Biotransformation of lignin: Mechanisms,applications and future work

As one of the most abundant polymers in biosphere, lignin has attracted extensive attention as a kind of promising feedstock for biofuel and bio-based products. However, the utilization of lignin presents various challenges in that its complex composition and structure and high resistance to degradation. Lignin conversion through biological platform harnesses the catalytic power of microorganisms to decompose complex lignin molecules and obtain value-added products through biosynthesis. Given the heterogeneity of lignin, various microbial metabolic pathways are involved in lignin bioconversion processes, which has been characterized in extensive research work. With different types of lignin substrates (e.g., model compounds, technical lignin, and lignocellulosic biomass), several bacterial and fungal species have been proved to own lignin-degrading abilities and accumulate microbial products (e.g., lipid and polyhydroxyalkanoates), while the lignin conversion efficiencies are still relatively low. Genetic and metabolic strategies have been developed to enhance lignin biodegradation by reprogramming microbial metabolism, and diverse products, such as vanillin and dicarboxylic acids were also produced from lignin. This article aims at presenting a comprehensive review on lignin bioconversion including lignin degradation mechanisms, metabolic pathways, and applications for the production of value-added bioproducts. Advanced techniques on genetic and metabolic engineering are also covered in the recent development of biological platforms for lignin utilization. To conclude this article, the existing challenges for efficient lignin bioprocessing are analyzed and possible directions for future work are proposed.     

木质素生物合成途径及调控的研究进展

木质素是植物体中仅次于纤维素的一种重要大分子有机物质,具重要生物学功能。木质素填充于纤维素构架中增强植物体的机械强度,利于疏导组织的水分运输和抵抗不良外界环境的侵袭。陆生植物的木质素合成是适应陆地环境的重要进化特征之一。然而,制浆造纸的中心环节是用大量化学品将原料中的木质素与纤维素分离,纤维素用于造纸,分离的木质素等成为造纸工业的主要废弃物,对江河湖海的污染触目惊心。脱木质素的化学品投入及废液的碱回收处理需大量耗能并增加造纸成本。饲草的木质素还影响牲畜的消化与营养吸收,木质素含量的高低是饲草优劣…     

Creative biological lignin conversion routes toward lignin valorization

Lignin, the largest renewable aromatic resource, is a promising alternative feedstock for the sustainable production of various chemicals, fuels, and materials. Despite this potential, lignin is characterized by heterogeneous and macromolecular structures that must be addressed. In this review, we present biological lignin conversion routes (BLCRs) that offer opportunities for overcoming these challenges, making lignin valorization feasible. Funneling heterogeneous aromatics via a ‘biological funnel’ offers a high-specificity bioconversion route for aromatic platform chemicals. The inherent aromaticity of lignin drives atom-economic functionalization routes toward aromatic natural product generation. By harnessing the ligninolytic capacities of specific microbial systems, powerful aromatic ring-opening routes can be developed to generate various value-added products. Thus, BLCRs hold the promise to make lignin valorization feasible and enable a lignocellulose-based bioeconomy.     

Integrative analysis of transgenic alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) suggests new metabolic control mechanisms for monolignol biosynthesis

The entanglement of lignin polymers with cellulose and hemicellulose in plant cell walls is a major biological barrier to the economically viable production of biofuels from woody biomass. Recent efforts of reducing this recalcitrance with transgenic techniques have been showing promise for ameliorating or even obviating the need for costly pretreatments that are otherwise required to remove lignin from cellulose and hemicelluloses. At the same time, genetic manipulations of lignin biosynthetic enzymes have sometimes yielded unforeseen consequences on lignin composition, thus raising the question of whether the current understanding of the pathway is indeed correct. To address this question systemically, we developed and applied a novel modeling approach that, instead of analyzing the pathway within a single target context, permits a comprehensive, simultaneous investigation of different datasets in wild type and transgenic plants. Specifically, the proposed approach combines static flux-based analysis with a Monte Carlo simulation in which very many randomly chosen sets of parameter values are evaluated against kinetic models of lignin biosynthesis in different stem internodes of wild type and lignin-modified alfalfa plants. In addition to four new postulates that address the reversibility of some key reactions, the modeling effort led to two novel postulates regarding the control of the lignin biosynthetic pathway. The first posits functionally independent pathways toward the synthesis of different lignin monomers, while the second postulate proposes a novel feedforward regulatory mechanism. Subsequent laboratory experiments have identified the signaling molecule salicylic acid as a potential mediator of the postulated control mechanism. Overall, the results demonstrate that mathematical modeling can be a valuable complement to conventional transgenic approaches and that it can provide biological insights that are otherwise difficult to obtain.     

生物质生物预处理研究进展与展望

木质纤维素生物质分布广、产量大、可再生,用于制备生物基能源、生物基材料和生物基化学品。木质纤维素生物质组成复杂,包含纤维素、半纤维素和木质素等,木质素与半纤维素通过共价键、氢键交联形成独特的“包裹结构”,纤维素含有复杂的分子内与分子间氢键,上述因素制约着其资源化利用。生物预处理以其独特优越性成为生物质研究的重要方面。系统阐述了生物预处理过程中木质素降解和基团修饰对纤维素酶解的影响,纤维素含量及结晶区变化,半纤维素五碳糖利用,微观物理结构的改变。进一步提出了以生物预处理为核心的组合预处理、基于不同功能的多酶协同催化体系、木质纤维素组分分级利用和新型高效细菌预处理工艺是生物预处理未来发展的重要趋势。     

The effect of biological pretreatment with the selective white-rot fungus Echinodontium taxodii on enzymatic hydrolysis of softwoods and hardwoods

Selective white-rot fungi have shown potential for lignocellulose pretreatment. In the study, a new fungal isolate, Echinodontium taxodii 2538, was used in biological pretreatment to enhance the enzymatic hydrolysis of two native woods: Chinese willow (hardwood) and China-fir (softwood). E. taxodii preferentially degraded the lignin during the pretreatment, and the pretreated woods showed significant increases in enzymatic hydrolysis ratios (4.7-fold for hardwood and 6.3-fold for softwood). To better understand effects of biological pretreatment on enzymatic hydrolysis, enzyme–substrate interactions were investigated. It was observed that E. taxodii enhanced initial adsorption of cellulase but which did not always translate to high initial hydrolysis rate. However, the rate of change in hydrolysis rate declined dramatically with decreasing irreversible adsorption of cellulase. Thus, the enhancement of enzymatic hydrolysis was attributed to the decline of irreversible adsorption which may result from partial lignin degradation and alteration in lignin structure after biological pretreatment.     

木质素生物合成途径及其基因调控的研究进展

木质素是植物体内含量仅次于纤维素的一类高分子有机物质,在植物体的机械支持、水分运输及抵抗外界不良环境的侵袭方面起着重要的作用。然而,它的存在严重影响植物材料在造纸工业、纺织业、畜牧业生产中的应用。木质素代谢过程中存在多基因现象使得木质素的合成途径出现多样性,利用共抑制、反义抑制等转基因技术开发低木质素含量的优良新品种具有重要的意义。