Biotechnology in Pulp and Paper Manufacture

Preface


1 Overview of Biotechnology in Pulp and Paper Manufacture

Part I. Cell Wall Degradation and Biopulping


2 Energy Savings in Biomechanical Pulping


3 Biomechanical Pulping of Aspen Chips: Fungal Growth Pattern and Effects on Cell Wall, Fiber, and Pulp Morphology


4 Biodelignification and Metabolites Production in Different Solid-State Fermentation Conditions


5 Biological Degradation and Delignification of Rice Straw


6 Enzyme Immunocytochemistry and Ultrastructural Localization of Cell Wall Components by Enzyme-Gold Complexes


7 Immunocytochemical Observations of Fungal Enzymes During Degradation of Wood


8 Spatial Distribution of Lignin- and Manganese II Peroxidase(s) During Degradation of Wood and Wood Fragments by Phanerochaete chrysosporium as Revealed by T.E.M. Immunogold Labelling


9 Enzymatic Attack of Wood is Limited by the Inaccessibility of the Substrate

Part II: Enzymatic and Fungal Treatment of Pulps


10 Optimization of Kraft Pulp Bleaching by Coriolus versicolor


11 Physiology of Hardwood Kraft Pulp Bleaching by Coriolus versicolor, and Use of Foam Immobilization for the Production of Mycelium-Free Bleached Pulps


12 Effect of Increased Oxygen Availability on the Biological Bleaching of Hardwood Kraft Pulp by Coriolus versicolor


13 Characterization of Pulps Treated with Hemicellulolytic Enzymes Prior to Bleaching


14 Mannanase and Xylanase Treatment of Softwood Chemical Pulps: Effects on Pulp Properties and Bleachability


15 The Interaction of Xylanase with Pulps: Non-Selective Adsorption and Inactivation of Xylanase


16 Accessibility of Hemicellulose in Hardwood Pulps to Enzymes


17 Effects of Aureobasidium pullulans Xylanase on Properties of Aspen Thermochemical and Kraft Pulps


18 Biomimetic Bleaching of Kraft Pulps


19 The Application of Fungal Enzymes in Flax Retting and the Properties of an Extracellular Polygalacturonase from Penicellium capsulatum

Part III: Waste Treatment


20 Degradation of Chlorinated Phenols and Guaiacols by the White-Rot Fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium


21 Dechlorination of Conventional Softwood Bleaching Effluent by Sequential Biological Treatment


22 Treatment of Bleach Plant Effluents by the Mycopor System


23 Decolorization of Kraft Bleached Effluent


24 Polymerization and Depolymerization of Waste Water Lignins by White-Rot Fungi


25 Reduction of AOX in Bleach Plant Effluents by a Combination of Ultrafiltration and Biological Methods


26 Decreasing Chlorinated Organics in Bleaching Effluents in an Anaerobic Fixed Bed Reactor

Part IV: Byproduct Bioconversion


27 Fodder and Yeast Production at a Czechoslovakian Pulp Mill


28 Fermentation of Hemicellulose Sugars from Spent Sulfite Liquor into Fungal Biomass with Various Fungi and Characterization of Lignin Isolated from Fermentation Broth


29 Production of Ethanol from Xylose by Candida shehatae Grown Under Continuous or Fed-Batch Conditions


30 Fermentation of Xylose in Sulfite Spent Liquor


31 Changes in the Rate of Enzymatic Hydrolysis and Surface Area Available to Cellulase with Pretreatment Methods


32 SO2 Steam Explosion of Pine Sawdust: Maximization of Saccharification Yields after Enzymatic Detoxification of Washing Liquors

Part V: Fundamental Studies of Lignin Biodegradation


33 Degradation of Synthetic Lignin (DHP) by the Lignin Peroxidases of Phanerochaete chrysosporium


34 Degradation Mechanisms of Phenolic β-O-4 Lignin Substructure Model Compounds by Laccase of Coriolus versicolor


35 NMR Studies of Lignin Degradation


36 Enzymatic Modification of Lignin in Organic Solvents


37 On the Metabolism of 3,4-Dimethoxybenzyl Alcohol and its Methyl Ether by Phanerochaete Chrysosporium


38 metabolism of Veratric Acid by Lignin-Degrading White-Rot Fungi

Part VI: Fundamental Studies in Cellulose and Hemicellulose Biodegradation


39 Catalytic Activities of Lignin-Degrading Enzymes from the White-Rot Fungus Phlebia radiata: Lignin Model Compound Studies


40 Purification and Characterization of a Manganese-Dependent Peroxidase from Lentinula edodes


41 Isozymes of the Manganese(II)-Dependent Peroxidase in the White-Rot Basidiomycete Trametes versicolor


42 Lignin-Modifying Enzymes from the White-Rot Fungus Phlebia radiata


43 Manganese Peroxidase from Phanerochaete chrysosporium: Biochemical and Genetic Characterization


44 Glyoxal Oxidase and the Extracellular Peroxidases of Phanerochaete chrysosporium


45 The Regulation of Lignin Peroxidase as well as Nitrogen Metabolism in Mutants of Phanerochaete chrysosporium


46 Lignin Peroxidase Production by Phanerochaete chrysosporium Immobilized on Sintered Glass


47 Biomimetic Studies of Lignin Degradation and Bleaching


48 Progress on the Crystal Structure Elucidation of Lignin Peroxidase from the White-Rot Fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium


49 Metabolism of Lignin-Related Dimeric Structures by Pseudomonas fluorescens Biovar I


50 Pathway for Cα — Cß Cleavage of Diaryl Propane Lignin Model Compounds by Pseudomonas sp.


51 Protoplast Formation and Regeneration of Dilignol-Degrading Strains of Alkalophilic Corynebacterium

Part VII: Molecular Genetics Research on Lignocellulose-Degrading Microorganisms


52 Molecular Cloning of the Genes Specifying the Enzymes Involved in the Lignin Model Compound Degradation by the Soil Bacterium Pseudomonas paucimobilis SYK-6


53 The Cellulase of the Rumen Anaerobic Fungus Neocallimastix frontalis


54 A Common Structural and Functional Design for Fungal Cellulose Degradation


55 Binding Domains of Cellulomonas fimi Cellulases


56 Cloning of the Cellulase Gene from Clostridium josui and its Expression in Escherichia coli


57 Nucleotide Sequence of the Cellulase Gene from Ruminococcus albus and Properties of Its Translation Product


58 Enzymatic Solubilization of Xylans


59 Cloning, Sequence Analysis and Expression of Xylan-Degrading Enzymes from the Thermophile Caldocellum saccharolyticum


60 Trichoderma reesei as a Production Organism for Enzymes for the Pulp and Paper Industry


61 Extracellular Peroxidases of Phanerochaete chrysosporium: cDNA Cloning Expression


62 Cloning and Sequencing of Ligninase Genes of Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Screening of Lignin Degrading Fungi Using DNA Probes


63 Multiple Lignin Peroxidase Gene-Related Sequences in White-Rot Fungi


64 Characterization of Genes Coding for Ligninolytic Enzymes of the White-Rot Fungus Phlebia radiata


65 Cloning of a cDNA for the Ligninolytic Laccase and Analysis of Laccase Isozymes from Coriolus versicolor


66 Inheritance of Cellulose- and Lignin-Degrading Ability and Endoglucanase Isozyme Patterns in Dichomitus squalens


67 Mutagenesis of the Lignin Peroxidase Genes of Phanerochaete chrysosporium


68 Molecular Analysis of Lignocellulolytic Enzymes of the Edible Mushroom Agaricus bisporus