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The genes encoding the enzyme arabinoxylan arabinofuranohydrolase, which releases L-arabinose from arabinoxylan, have been cloned from the closely related fungi Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus tubingensis and were shown to be functional in A. niger. Integration of multiple copies in the genome resulted in over-expression of the enzymes. The arabinofuranohydrolases encoded comprise 332 amino acids and have 94% amino acid identity. Their primary structure is not related to those of other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, except for a low similarity with XYLC, a bacterial α-L-arabinofuranosidase from Pseudomonas fluorescens which acts on oat spelt xylan. The axhA expression pattern in A. niger differed from that of abfB, since it was strongly induced by birchwood xylan and much less by L-arabitol or L-arabinose. Furthermore, Northern analysis revealed that axhA expression was de repressed in creA d mutants and carbon catabolite repressed by D-glucose.
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Received: 9 August / 29 August 1996
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Gielkens, M., Visser, J. & de Graaff, L. Arabinoxylan degradation by fungi: characterization of the arabinoxylan-arabinofuranohydrolase encoding genes from Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus tubingensis. Curr Genet 31, 22–29 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002940050172
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002940050172