Abstract
Lignocellulose is the most abundant biopolymer available on earth as waste biomass. Lignocellulose-degrading enzymes, namely, cellulases, hemicellulases, and ligninases, play a crucial role in converting lignocellulose into sugars and biofuels. Biochemistry and enzyme kinetics of microbial lignocellulose-degrading enzyme information is very important for understanding metabolic regulations that occur under different conditions. Hence, this chapter focuses on the biochemical aspects of the lignocellulose-degrading enzyme systems from microbial sources. As the bacterial degradation of lignocellulose is more restricted and as they are poor producers of ligninases, we focused more on fungi in this chapter.
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