著者
Sosyu Tsutsui Tomohiro Hatano Ryo Funada Satoshi Kaneko
出版者
The Japanese Society of Applied Glycoscience
雑誌
Journal of Applied Glycoscience (ISSN:13447882)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.jag.JAG-2022_0008, (Released:2022-10-08)

In recent years, the importance of biomass utilization has increased, but it has not been effectively exploited. In particular, it is difficult to use hemicellulose, the second most abundant biopolymer of biomass. Therefore, in order to promote the utilization of hemicellulose, we screened for microorganisms capable of producing polysaccharides from xylose. The following four strains were selected from samples collected from various regions of Okinawa Prefecture: Kosakonia sp. (SO_001), Papiliotrema terrestris (SO_005), Pseudoarthrobacter sp. (SO_006), and Williamsia sp. (SO_009). Observation with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) confirmed that each bacterium produced polysaccharides with different shapes. In addition, the molecular weight and sugar composition of the polysaccharides produced by each bacterium were distinct. The selected microorganisms include closely related species known to promote plant growth and known to suppress postharvest pathogens. Since these microorganisms may be used not only in known fields but also in new fields, the results of this research are expected to greatly expand the uses of hemicellulose.
著者
Sosyu Tsutsui Kiyoshi Sakuragi Kiyohiko Igarashi Masahiro Samejima Satoshi Kaneko
出版者
The Japanese Society of Applied Glycoscience
雑誌
Journal of Applied Glycoscience (ISSN:13447882)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.67, no.1, pp.17-22, 2020-02-20 (Released:2020-02-20)
参考文献数
29
被引用文献数
4

Sugarcane bagasse is a useful biomass resource. In the present study, we examined the efficacy of ammonia pretreatment for selective release of hemicellulose from bagasse. Pretreatment of bagasse with aqueous ammonia resulted in significant loss of xylan. In contrast, pretreatment of bagasse with anhydrous ammonia resulted in almost no xylan loss. Aqueous ammonia or anhydrous ammonia-pretreated bagasse was then subjected to enzymatic digestion with a xylanase from the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 10 or a xylanase from the GH family 11. The hydrolysis rate of xylan in bagasse pretreated with aqueous ammonia was approximately 50 %. In contrast, in the anhydrous ammonia-treated bagasse, xylan hydrolysis was > 80 %. These results suggested that anhydrous ammonia pretreatment would be an effective method for preparation of sugarcane bagasse for enzymatic hydrolysis to recover xylooligosaccharides.
著者
Haruka Yagi Ryo Takehara Aika Tamaki Koji Teramoto Sosyu Tsutsui Satoshi Kaneko
出版者
The Japanese Society of Applied Glycoscience
雑誌
Journal of Applied Glycoscience (ISSN:13447882)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.jag.JAG-2018_0008, (Released:2018-11-05)
被引用文献数
14

We functionally characterized the GH10 xylanase (SoXyn10A) and the GH11 xylanase (SoXyn11B) derived from the actinomycete Streptomyces olivaceoviridis E-86. Each enzyme exhibited differences in the produced reducing power upon degradation of xylan substrates. SoXyn10A produced higher reducing power than SoXyn11B. Gel filtration of the hydrolysates generated by both enzymes revealed that the original substrate was completely decomposed. Enzyme mixtures of SoXyn10A and SoXyn11B produced the same level of reducing power as SoXyn10A alone. These observations were in good agreement with the composition of the hydrolysis products. The hydrolysis products derived from the incubation of soluble birchwood xylan with a mixture of SoXyn10A and SoXyn11B produced the same products as SoXyn10A alone with similar compositions. Furthermore, the addition of SoXyn10A following SoXyn11B-mediated digestion of xylan produced the same products as SoXyn10A alone with similar compositions. Thus, it was hypothesized that SoXyn10A could degrade xylans to a smaller size than SoXyn11B. In contrast to the soluble xylans as the substrate, the produced reducing power generated by both enzymes was not significantly different when pretreated milled bagasses were used as substrates. Quantification of the pentose content in the milled bagasse residues after the enzyme digestions revealed that SoXyn11B hydrolyzed xylans in pretreated milled bagasses much more efficiently than SoXyn10A. These data suggested that the GH10 xylanases can degrade soluble xylans smaller than the GH11 xylanases. However, the GH11 xylanases may be more efficient at catalyzing xylan degradation in natural environments (e.g. biomass) where xylans interact with celluloses and lignins.