Hemocyanin facilitates lignocellulose digestion by wood-boring marine crustaceans

• Main Authors: Besser, Katrin, Malyon, Graham P., Eborall, William S., Paro da Cunha, Giovanni, Filgueiras, Jefferson G., Dowle, Adam, Garcia, Lourdes Cruz, Page, Samuel J., Dupree, Ray, Kern, Marcelo, Gomez, Leonardo D., Li, Yi, Elias, Luisa, Sabbadin, Federico, Mohamad, Shaza E., Pesante, Giovanna, Steele-King, Clare, Ribeiro de Azevedo, Eduardo, Polikarpov, Igor, Dupree, Paul, Cragg, Simon M., Bruce, Neil C., McQueen-Mason, Simon J.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/85958/1/ShazaEMohamad2018_HemocyaninFacilitatesLignocelluloseDigestionByWood.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/85958/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07575-2

Woody (lignocellulosic) plant biomass is an abundant renewable feedstock, rich in polysaccharides that are bound into an insoluble fiber composite with lignin. Marine crustacean woodborers of the genus Limnoria are among the few animals that can survive on a diet of this recalcitrant material withou...