Monolignol ferulate conjugates are naturally incorporated into plant lignins [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 662.8 Other fuels
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2016
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: Article No. e1600393 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 263361
• Chủ đề: 1. 09 biomass fuels; 2. 37 inorganic, organic, physical, and analytical chemistry; 3. 59 basic biological sciences; 4. Grasses; 5. Rice

Tóm tắt

Angiosperms represent most of the terrestrial plants and are the primary research focus for the conversion of biomass to liquid fuels and coproducts. Lignin limits our access to fibers and represents a large fraction of the chemical energy stored in plant cell walls. Recently, the incorporation of monolignol ferulates into lignin polymers was accomplished via the engineering of an exotic transferase into commercially relevant poplar. We report that various angiosperm species might have convergently evolved to natively produce lignins that incorporate monolignol ferulate conjugates. We show that this activity may be accomplished by a BAHD feruloyl?coenzyme A monolignol transferase, OsFMT1 (AT5), in rice and its orthologs in other monocots.