Arabinogalactan proteins: focus on carbohydrate active enzymes [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014 Arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) are a highly diverse class of cell surface proteoglycans that are commonly found in most plant species. AGPs play important roles in many cellular processes during plant development, such as reproduction, cell ...
Eva eKnoch +3 more
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CAZac: an activity descriptor for carbohydrate-active enzymes. [PDF]
Nucleic Acids ResAbstract The Carbohydrate-Active enZYme database (CAZy; www.cazy.org) has been providing the reference classification of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) for >30 years. Based on literature survey, the sequence-based families of CAZymes are enriched with functional data by using the International Union of Biochemistry and ...
Lombard V, Henrissat B, Garron ML.
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CANDy: Automated analysis of domain architectures in carbohydrate-active enzymes. [PDF]
PLoS ONECarbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) can be found in all domains of life and play a crucial role in metabolic and physiological processes. CAZymes often possess a modular structure, comprising not only catalytic domains but also associated domains such ...
Alex Windels +3 more
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Homology to peptide pattern for annotation of carbohydrate-active enzymes and prediction of function [PDF]
BMC Bioinformatics, 2017 Background Carbohydrate-active enzymes are found in all organisms and participate in key biological processes. These enzymes are classified in 274 families in the CAZy database but the sequence diversity within each family makes it a major task to ...
P. K. Busk +4 more
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Mapping the polysaccharide degradation potential of
BMC Genomics, 2012 Background The degradation of plant materials by enzymes is an industry of increasing importance. For sustainable production of second generation biofuels and other products of industrial biotechnology, efficient degradation of non-edible plant ...
Andersen Mikael R +3 more
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PlantCAZyme: a database for plant carbohydrate-active enzymes [PDF]
Database, 2014 PlantCAZyme is a database built upon dbCAN (database for automated carbohydrate active enzyme annotation), aiming to provide pre-computed sequence and annotation data of carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes) to plant carbohydrate and bioenergy research ...
Ekstrom, Alexander +3 more
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Carbohydrate‐active enzymes exemplify entropic principles in metabolism
Molecular Systems Biology, 2011 Glycans comprise ubiquitous and essential biopolymers, which usually occur as highly diverse mixtures. The myriad different structures are generated by a limited number of carbohydrate‐active enzymes (CAZymes), which are unusual in that they catalyze ...
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Identifying carbohydrate-active enzymes of Cutaneotrichosporon oleaginosus using systems biology [PDF]
Microbial Cell Factories, 2021 Background The oleaginous yeast Cutaneotrichosporon oleaginosus represents one of the most promising microbial platforms for resource-efficient and scalable lipid production, with the capacity to accept a wide range of carbohydrates encapsulated in ...
Tobias Fuchs +10 more
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Role of carbohydrate-active enzymes in brown planthopper virulence and adaptability [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionHerbivorous insects, including the brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens, are among the most damaging pests to agricultural crops worldwide, particularly rice.
Fang Liu +9 more
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Oral and Gut Microbial Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes Landscape in Health and Disease [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Inter-individual variability in the microbial gene complement encoding for carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) can profoundly regulate how the host interacts with diverse carbohydrate sources thereby influencing host health. CAZy-typing, characterizing
Stanley O. Onyango +3 more
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