scholarly journals Mycolysis of wood, its products and their use. IV. Component analysis of mycologically destroyed wood

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
G.N. Kononov ◽  
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A.N. Verevkin ◽  
Yu.V. Serdyukova ◽  
V.D. Zaitsev ◽  
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The article is devoted to the study of the component composition of mycologically destroyed wood. As a result of wood mycolysis under the action of wood-destroying fungi enzymes, so-called «rot» is formed with a chemical composition different from healthy wood. It is noted that the «brown rot» of wood is enriched with lignin components of wood and «white rot» with carbohydrate components of wood. The results of analyses of ligno-carbohydrate complexes of spruce wood «brown rot», birch wood «white rot» and a group study of low-molecular compounds isolated by extraction methods with various solvents are presented. It is noted that the content of lignin in the sample of «brown rot» wood is four times higher than in the sample of «white rot». It is shown that birch wood with «white rot» is significantly enriched with cellulose. The chemical nature of some groups of extractive substances has been revealed. In the extracts of mycologically destroyed wood, substances of phenolic, alcoholic and quinone nature were found. The presence of derivatives of aromatic and aliphatic carbonyl and carboxyl compounds is noted. Among the products of mycolysis, carbohydrates, flavanoids and terpenoids have been identified. Based on the analysis, an assumption is made that mycologically destroyed wood contains a wide range of phenolic and carbohydrate compounds contained both in the original wood and in the spores and hyphae of wood-destroying fungi themselves. The idea is substantiated that the study of extractive substances of mycologically destroyed wood makes it possible to predict possible directions of the prospective use of this raw material for obtaining target products. This article is the fourth in the cycle «Wood mycolysis, its products and their use», the previous ones were published in the journal «Forestry Bulletin», 2020, v. 24, no. 2, 6; v. 25, no. 1.

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
pp. 692-703
Author(s):  
Aline HAAS ◽  
Cleiton VAZ ◽  
Aniela Pinto KEMPKA

Peroxidases are enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of various substrates, maintaining their enzymatic activity in wide ranges of pH and temperatures. These enzymes are used in processes for the degradation of dyes and phenolic compounds. Peroxidases are present in the tissues of several plants, and the search for new sources of this enzyme is necessary. This literature review aims to compile information about the extraction and/or purification of peroxidases contained in different plant tissues, presenting extraction methods, purification processes, enzymatic activities and their increments, according to the chemical and physical processes applied. Several plant sources can be raw material to obtain these enzymes, through different forms of extraction, where the processes of comminution predominate in the presence of buffer solution. For partial purification, are used precipitation with solvents (acetone and ethanol) and salts (ammonium sulfate) and centrifugation. For purification, chromatographic processes are used, in which molecular exclusion and affinity chromatography are prominent. It is concluded that there is a wide range of possibilities for obtaining the enzyme peroxidase from plants, with variability in the enzymatic activity when different extraction methods are applied. The purification methods used provide increases in the specific activity of the peroxidases.


Holzforschung ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeshi Nishimura ◽  
Mitsuro Ishihara

Abstract The action of β-glucosidase on the methyl derivatives of p-nitrophenyl β-d-glucopyranoside (pNP-β-Glc), which were regio-specifically substituted at O-2, O-3, O-4, and O-6 positions, was studied. Specifically, several β-glucosidases isolated from brown-rot, white-rot, soft-rot fungi, and almond were investigated. These β-glucosidases did not act on the 2, 3, and 4-O-methyl derivatives, while the 6-O-methyl one was hydrolyzed by all the enzymes to some extent. The results indicate that the methyl group at O-2, O-3, and O-4 of the glucopyranoside strongly inhibits the recognition by the β-glucopyranoside, while the enzymes do not discriminate the structure difference between pNP-β-Glc and its methyl derivative at O-6.


Cellulose ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 6831-6848
Author(s):  
L. A. Soto-Salcido ◽  
I. Anugwom ◽  
L. Ballinas-Casarrubias ◽  
M. Mänttäri ◽  
M. Kallioinen

Abstract Waste biomass (agave bagasse) and native birch wood were used as raw materials for a novel fractionation and derivation process to produce cellulose acetates (CAs). During the first stage of the fractionation process, a significant amount of hemicelluloses and lignin were dissolved from the biomass using a natural deep eutectic solvent (NADES) that consisted of a mixture of choline chloride and lactic acid with the molar ratio of 1:9. Then, the residual solid material was delignified by bleaching it with a mixture of acetic acid and sodium chlorite. The fractionation process generated differently purified pulps (celluloses) which were converted to CAs. The crystallinity index, polymerization degree, chemical composition, and thermal properties of the differently purified pulps and CAs were analyzed to evaluate the efficacy of the acetylation process and to characterize the CAs. The chemical derivation of the differently purified cellulose samples generated CAs with different degrees of substitution (DSs). The more purified the cellulose sample was, the higher its DS was. Moreover, some differences were observed between the acetylation efficiencies of birch and agave bagasse. Typically, cellulose purified from birch by treating it with NADES followed by bleaching was acetylated more completely (DS = 2.94) than that derived from agave bagasse (DS = 2.45). These results revealed that using green solvents, such as NADES, to treat both agave bagasse (waste biomass) and birch wood, allowed pure fractions to be obtained from biomass, and thus, biomass could be valorized into products such as CAs, which present a wide range of applications.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliana Veloz Villavicencio ◽  
Tuulia Mali ◽  
Hans K. Mattila ◽  
Taina Lundell

Four well-studied saprotrophic Basidiomycota Agaricomycetes species with different decay strategies were cultivated on solid lignocellulose substrates to compare their extracellular decomposing carbohydrate-active and lignin-attacking enzyme production profiles. Two Polyporales species, the white rot fungus Phlebia radiata and brown rot fungus Fomitopsis pinicola, as well as one Agaricales species, the intermediate “grey” rot fungus Schizophyllum commune, were cultivated on birch wood pieces for 12 weeks, whereas the second Agaricales species, the litter-decomposing fungus Coprinopsis cinerea was cultivated on barley straw for 6 weeks under laboratory conditions. During 3 months of growth on birch wood, only the white rot fungus P. radiata produced high laccase and MnP activities. The brown rot fungus F. pinicola demonstrated notable production of xylanase activity up to 43 nkat/mL on birch wood, together with moderate β-glucosidase and endoglucanase cellulolytic activities. The intermediate rot fungus S. commune was the strongest producer of β-glucosidase with activities up to 54 nkat/mL, and a notable producer of xylanase activity, even up to 620 nkat/mL, on birch wood. Low lignin-attacking but moderate activities against cellulose and hemicellulose were observed with the litter-decomposer C. cinerea on barley straw. Overall, our results imply that plant cell wall decomposition ability of taxonomically and ecologically divergent fungi is in line with their enzymatic decay strategy, which is fundamental in understanding their physiology and potential for biotechnological applications.


2021 ◽  
pp. 247-255
Author(s):  
Fotima Azamzhonovna Sobirova ◽  
Akmal Khushvaktovich Islamov ◽  
Farrukh Nazimovich Tashpulatov ◽  
Umarzhan Nasrutdinovich Zaynutdinov ◽  
Alimzhan Davlatbaevich Matchanov

Extracts of the plant Lagochilus inebrians Bunge (Lamiaceae) are used as sedatives, antihypertensive and anti-allergic agents, and to stop bleeding. The main active ingredients of this plant are diterpenoids of the 9-13-epoxylabdanes series, as well as some alkalides. Not rational use of stocks of wild Lagohilus has led to the fact that this plant is currently included in the Red Book. Currently, work is underway to introduce this plant species. Therefore, the study of the dynamics of accumulation and localization of 9,13-epoxylabdans in the vegetative organs of introduced and wild plants of the genus Lagochilus (Lamiaceae) is of interest in terms of collecting the plant for use as a medicinal raw material, for the systematics of data on the accumulation of diterpenoids in the vegetative organs of the plant, for their use. in practical terms, the preparation of diterepenoids and their modification is an urgent task. Some systematic chemical studies of plants of the genus Lagochilus (Lamiaceae) were carried out by the school of Academician A.S. Sadykov. As a result of studying 10 plants of the species Lagochilus (Lamiaceae), more than 20 new diterpenoids of the labdan series were isolated. All of them are natural derivatives of the diterpene alcohol lagochilin. Their structure and configuration were established using IR, PMR and mass spectroscopy, as well as by synthesis from lagochilin or transformation into lagochilin. By studying the composition of diterpenoids of an introduced and wild plant of the genus Lagochilus, it was shown that the main diterpenoids of the 9-13-epoxylabdans series, exhibiting the main biological activity: lagochiline and its acetyl derivatives, accumulate mainly in the leaves and calyx of the plant in August, which is also consistent with some literature data. data. For isolation, extraction methods were used with various solvents. The methods of thin layer chromatography and spectroscopic research methods such as IR, PMR and mass spectrometry were used for identification.


2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 627-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Jovic ◽  
Jelena Pejin ◽  
Suncica Kocic-Tanackov ◽  
Ljiljana Mojovic

Pretreatment is a necessary step in the process of conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol; by changing the structure of lignocellulose, enhances enzymatic hydrolysis, but, often, it consumes large amounts of energy and/or needs an application of expensive and toxic chemicals, which makes the process economically and ecologically unfavourable. Application of lignocellulolytic fungi (from the class Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes and Deuteromycetes) is an attractive method for pre-treatment, environmentally friendly and does not require the investment of energy. Fungi produce a wide range of enzymes and chemicals, which, combined in a variety of ways, together successfully degrade lignocellulose, as well as aromatic polymers that share features with lignin. On the basis of material utilization and features of a rotten wood, they are divided in three types of wood-decay fungi: white rot, brown rot and soft rot fungi. White rot fungi are the most efficient lignin degraders in nature and, therefore, have a very important role in carbon recycling from lignified wood. This paper describes fungal mechanisms of lignocellulose degradation. They involve oxidative and hydrolytic mechanisms. Lignin peroxidase, manganese peroxidase, laccase, cellobiose dehydrogenase and enzymes able to catalyze formation of hydroxyl radicals (?OH) such as glyoxal oxidase, pyranose-2-oxidase and aryl-alcohol oxidase are responsible for oxidative processes, while cellulases and hemicellulases are involved in hydrolytic processes. Throughout the production stages, from pre-treatment to fermentation, the possibility of their application in the technology of bioethanol production is presented. Based on previous research, the advantages and disadvantages of biological pre-treatment are pointed out.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Agus Sugiarta ◽  
Houtman P. Siregar ◽  
Dedy Loebis

Automation of process control in chemical plant is an inspiring application field of mechatronicengineering. In order to understand the complexity of the automation and its application requireknowledges of chemical engineering, mechatronic and other numerous interconnected studies.The background of this paper is an inherent problem of overheating due to lack of level controlsystem. The objective of this research is to control the dynamic process of desired level more tightlywhich is able to stabilize raw material supply into the chemical plant system.The chemical plant is operated within a wide range of feed compositions and flow rates whichmake the process control become difficult. This research uses modelling for efficiency reason andanalyzes the model by PID control algorithm along with its simulations by using Matlab.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (14) ◽  
pp. 2475-2484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Congqiang Zhang ◽  
Heng-Phon Too

Lignocellulose is the most abundant renewable natural resource on earth and has been successfully used for the production of biofuels. A significant challenge is to develop cost-effective, environmentally friendly and efficient processes for the conversion of lignocellulose materials into suitable substrates for biotransformation. A number of approaches have been explored to convert lignocellulose into sugars, e.g. combining chemical pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis. In nature, there are organisms that can transform the complex lignocellulose efficiently, such as wood-degrading fungi (brown rot and white rot fungi), bacteria (e.g. Clostridium thermocellum), arthropods (e.g. termite) and certain animals (e.g. ruminant). Here, we highlight recent case studies of the natural degraders and the mechanisms involved, providing new utilities in biotechnology. The sugars produced from such biotransformations can be used in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for the complete biosynthesis of natural medicine. The unique opportunities in using lignocellulose directly to produce natural drug molecules with either using mushroom and/or ‘industrial workhorse’ organisms (Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae) will be discussed.


Author(s):  
Siraj Salman Mohammad ◽  
Renata Oliveira Santos ◽  
Maria Ivone Barbosa ◽  
José Lucena Barbosa Junior

: Anthocyanins are widely spread in different kinds of food, especially fruits and floral tissues, there is an extensive range of anthocyanin compounds reach more than 600 exist in nature. Anthocyanins can be used as antioxidants and raw material for several applications in food and pharmaceutical industry. Consequently, a plenty of studies about anthocyanins sources and extraction methods were reported. Furthermore, many studies about their stability, bioactive and therapeutic properties have been done. According to the body of work, we firstly worked to shed light on anthocyanin properties including chemical, antioxidant and extraction properties. Secondly, we reported the applications and health benefits of anthocyanin including the applications in food processes and anthocyanin characteristics as therapeutic and prophylactic compounds. We reviewed anticancer, anti-diabetic, anti-fatness, oxidative Stress and lipid decreasing and vasoprotective effects of anthocyanins. In conclusion, because the importance of phytochemicals and bioactive compounds the research is still continuing to find new anthocyanins from natural sources and invest them as raw materials in the pharmaceutical and nutrition applications.


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