A genomic perspective on the potential of termite-associated MP1 as producer of plant biomass-acting enzymes and exopolysaccharides.

Background: Lignocellulose is a renewable and enormous biomass resource, which can be degraded efficiently by a range of cocktails of carbohydrate-active enzymes secreted by termite gut symbiotic bacteria. There is an urgent need to find enzymes with novel characteristics for improving the conversion processes in the production of lignocellulosic-based products. Although various studies dedicated to the genus as gut symbiont genetic potential related to plant biomass-acting enzymes and exopolysaccharides production has been fully untapped to date.