Effect of wood polymers degradation during heat treatment on extracellular enzymatic activities involved in beech degradation by Trametes versicolor

IRG/WP 08-40392

S Lekounougou, G Nguila Inari, M Pétrissans, S Dumarçay, J P Jacquot, E Gelhaye, P Gérardin

Effect of heat treatment on extracellular enzymes involved in wood degradation by Trametes versicolor was investigated. Heat-treated and untreated beech blocks were exposed to T. versicolor on malt agar medium and extracellular enzymatic activities investigated. A strong ABTS oxidizing activity has been detected during the first stage of colonization in both cases, while cellulase activities are mainly detected in the case of untreated beech wood. Further investigations carried out on holocellulose, isolated using sodium chlorite delignification procedure, either on untreated beech wood or heat treated one, indicate that commercially available cellulases are able to hydrolyse totally holocellulose from untreated sawdust, while hollocellulose from heat treated one was only partially hydrolysed. CP/MAS 13C NMR analysis of heat treated beech wood but also its lignin and holocellulose fractions obtained after acidic hydrolysis of polysaccharides or delignification with sodium chlorite indicates an important modification of hollocellulose showing degradation of hemicelluloses as generally described in the literature, but also formation of carbonaceous materials within the wood structure. All these data suggest that chemical modifications of wood components during heat treatment disturb enzymatic system involved in wood degradation.


Keywords: beech, cellulase, CP/MAS 13C NMR, enzymatic activity, heat treatment, laccase, oxidase, Trametes versicolor, wood

Conference: 08-05-25/29, Istanbul, Turkey


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