Exemplar Abstract for Thermobifida fusca (McCarthy and Cross 1984) Zhang et al. 1998 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018 and Thermomonospora fusca (ex Henssen 1957) McCarthy and Cross 1984.

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Thomas Parker ◽  
Kara Mannor ◽  
George M Garrity
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Thomas Parker ◽  
Nicole Danielle Osier ◽  
George M Garrity ◽  
Dorothea Taylor

Proceedings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Sachiko Nakamura ◽  
Norio Kurosawa

Lignocellulosic biomass comprises cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin and is a potential source of fuels and chemicals. Although this complex biomass is persistent, it can be cooperatively decomposed by a microbial consortium in nature. In this study, a coculture of the moderately thermophilic bacteria Thermobifida fusca and Ureibacillus thermosphaericus was used for biodegradation of rice chaff. The bacterial strains were incubated in modified Brock’s basal salt medium (pH 8.0) supplemented with yeast extract and rice chaff at 50 °C for 7 days. The concentration of reducing sugars and the enzymatic activities of laccase, lignin peroxidase, cellulase, and xylanase in the supernatant of the culture medium were measured every day. The concentrations of reducing sugars in solo cultures of T. fusca and U. thermosphaericus and a mixed culture of the two strains after 7 days of incubation were 0.047, 0.040, and 0.195 mg/mL, respectively, indicating that the decomposition of rice chaff was enhanced in the coculture. Based on the results, it is thought that the lignin surrounding the cellulose was decomposed by laccase and lignin peroxidase secreted from U. thermosphaericus, resulting in cellulose and hemicellulose in the rice chaff being easily decomposed by enzymes from T. fusca.


Viruses ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1042
Author(s):  
Cheepudom ◽  
Lin ◽  
Lee ◽  
Meng

Thermobifida fusca is of biotechnological interest due to its ability to produce an array of plant cell wall hydrolytic enzymes. Nonetheless, only one T. fusca bacteriophage with genome information has been reported to date. This study was aimed at discovering more relevant bacteriophages to expand the existing knowledge of phage diversity for this host species. With this end in view, a thermostable T. fusca bacteriophage P318, which belongs to the Siphoviridae family, was isolated and characterized. P318 has a double-stranded DNA genome of 48,045 base pairs with 3′-extended COS ends, on which 52 putative ORFs are organized into clusters responsible for the order of genome replication, virion morphogenesis, and the regulation of the lytic/lysogenic cycle. In comparison with T. fusca and the previously discovered bacteriophage P1312, P318 has a much lower G+C content in its genome except at the region encompassing ORF42, which produced a protein with unknown function. P1312 and P318 share very few similarities in their genomes except for the regions encompassing ORF42 of P318 and ORF51 of P1312 that are homologous. Thus, acquisition of ORF42 by lateral gene transfer might be an important step in the evolution of P318.


2010 ◽  
Vol 82 (9) ◽  
pp. 1487-1487
Author(s):  
R. Wei ◽  
T. Oeser ◽  
W. Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  

2011 ◽  
Vol 77 (17) ◽  
pp. 6274-6276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxim Kostylev ◽  
David B. Wilson

ABSTRACTThe catalytic base in family 48 glycosyl hydrolases has not been previously established experimentally. Based on structural and modeling data published to date, we used site-directed mutagenesis and azide rescue activity assays to show definitively that the catalytic base inThermobifida fuscaCel48A is aspartic acid 225. Of the tested mutants, only Cel48A with the D225E mutation retained partial activity on soluble and insoluble substrates. In azide rescue experiments, only the D225G mutation, in the smallest residue tested, showed an increase in activity with added azide.


2010 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 1475-1485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anett Schallmey ◽  
Gijs den Besten ◽  
Ite G. P. Teune ◽  
Roga F. Kembaren ◽  
Dick B. Janssen

Metabolites ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niti Vanee ◽  
J. Brooks ◽  
Stephen Fong

BioResources ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 942-953
Author(s):  
Wan-Yu Liao ◽  
Yu-Chun Huang ◽  
Wei-Lin Chen ◽  
Cheng-Yu Chen ◽  
Chao-Hsun Yang

Lignocelluloses are comprised of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignins, which constitute plant biomass. Since peroxidases can degrade lignins, the authors examined peroxidase Tfu-1649, which is secreted from the thermophilic actinomycetes, Thermobifida fusca BCRC 19214. After cultivating for 48 h, the culture broth accumulated 43.66 U/mL of peroxidase activity. The treatment of four types of lignocellulolytic byproducts, i.e., bagasse, corncob, pin sawdust, and Zizania latifolia Turcz husk, with Tfu-1649 alone increased the total phenolic compounds, with limited reducing sugars, but treatment with xylanase, Tfu-11, and peroxidase Tfu-1649 showed synergistic effects. Hence, the co-operative degradation of lignocelluloses by both peroxidase and xylanase could contribute to biomass decomposition and further applications in the agricultural and environmental industries.


1994 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 763-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Irwin ◽  
E D Jung ◽  
D B Wilson

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