Development of enzyme cocktails for complete saccharification of chitin using mono-component enzymes from Serratia marcescens

Abstract One potential strategy for biorefining of chitin-rich biomass entails enzymatic saccharification, which, so far, has been scarcely explored. Here, saccharification of chitin was explored using response surface methodology available in the MODDE ® 10 software, to develop optimal cocktails of five mono-component enzymes from Serratia marcescens , three chitinases, Sm ChiA, Sm ChiB, Sm ChiC, a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase, Sm LPMO10A (or “CBP21”), and a beta- N -acetylhexosaminidase, Sm CHB (“chitobiase”). These five enzymes were recombinantly produced in Escherichia coli . For both shrimp and crab chitins, Sm ChiA was the most abundant (40% and 38%, respectively) in the optimized cocktails, whereas Sm ChiB, Sm ChiC and Sm LPMO10A were present at 30% and 26%, 15% and 23%, and 3% and 2%, respectively. Saccharification yields were 70%–75%, whereas a “minimal” cocktail of Sm ChiA and Sm CHB gave only 40% saccharification. These results show that enzymatic saccharification of chitin requires multiple enzyme activities applied at dosages similar to those used for saccharification of cellulose.

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