Engineering the cell wall by reducing de-methyl-esterified homogalacturonan improves saccharification of plant tissues for bioconversion

摘要

Plant cell walls represent an abundant, renewable source of biofuels and other useful products. The major bottleneck for the industrial scale-up of their conversion to simple sugars (saccharification) is their recalcitrance to enzymatic hydrolysis. We demonstrated that the structure of pectin affects the exposure of cellulose to enzymes and consequently the process of saccharification.