ORIGINAL RESEARCH
New Discovery of a Promising Cellulose-Degrading Bacterium and Its Degradation Mechanism
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College of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, No.600 Changjiang Road, Xiangfang District, Harbin 150030, China
 
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College of New Energy and Environment, Jilin University, No.2699 Qianjin Street, Chaoyang District, Changchun 130021, PR China
 
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School of Chemical Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University, No.169 Changchun Road, Chuanying District, Jilin 132012, China
 
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Key Laboratory of Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.72 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110016, China
 
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College of Life Science and Technology, Mudanjiang Normal University, No.191, Wenhua Street, Aimin District, Mudanjiang, 157011, China
 
 
Submission date: 2025-03-11
 
 
Final revision date: 2025-05-03
 
 
Acceptance date: 2025-05-17
 
 
Online publication date: 2025-07-12
 
 
Corresponding author
Zhihua Liu   

College of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, No.600 Changjiang Road, Xiangfang District, Harbin 150030, China
 
 
Yingjie Dai   

College of Resources and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, No.600 Changjiang Road, Xiangfang District, Harbin 150030, China
 
 
 
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To mitigate the challenges associated with straw returning to the field, this study utilized straw returning soil as the bacterial source and identified four cellulose-degrading strains through enrichment culture and Congo red staining. They were identified by molecular biology as Penicillium vinaceum, Hypocrea sp., Phanerochaetc chrysosporium, and Alternaria. By assessing the activities of filter paper enzyme, carboxymethyl cellulase, and microcrystalline cellulase, the results showed that Penicillium vinaceum exhibited the most effective straw degradation, with enzyme activities of filter paper enzyme, carboxymethyl cellulase, and microcrystalline cellulase enzyme activities were 102.13 IU/mg, 153.45 IU/mg, and 144.22 IU/mg, respectively, significantly surpassing the other three strains. The optimal growth conditions for this strain were 25℃, pH 3.0, and a substrate concentration of 3 g/L. Mechanistic analysis revealed that the high efficiency of Penicillium vinaceum in cellulose degradation was attributed to an enzyme synergy system: the bacterial strain synergistically completes the decomposition of straw through the dissolution of cellobiohydrolase I and Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases, as well as the separation of cellobiohydrolase II and endoglucanase. This study provides a superior candidate strain for the development of degradation agents to address the obstacles of straw returning to the field.
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