US20160097068A1 - Enhancing Enzymatic Hydrolysis by Enzymatic Preconditioning - Google Patents

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US20160097068A1
US20160097068A1 US14/891,170 US201414891170A US2016097068A1 US 20160097068 A1 US20160097068 A1 US 20160097068A1 US 201414891170 A US201414891170 A US 201414891170A US 2016097068 A1 US2016097068 A1 US 2016097068A1
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  • the present invention relates generally to processes for preconditioning pretreated lignocellulose-containing material with a combination of laccase and beta-glucosidase and to processes of enhancing enzymatic hydrolysis using such preconditioned material.
  • the invention also relates to processes for obtaining hydrolysis products and fermentation products, as well as to an enzyme preconditioning composition.
  • Renewable energy sources provide an alternative to current fossil fuel dependence.
  • Production of ethanol as an energy source includes the basic steps of hydrolysis and fermentation. These steps are integrated within larger processes to obtain ethanol from various source materials. Processes have been developed using sources including starch-based feedstocks, sugars and biomass, including cellulosic feedstocks.
  • the biomass is generally pretreated to reduce resistance to hydrolysis and fermentation processes.
  • the pretreatment may be performed prior to or subsequent with the hydrolysis and/or fermentation steps, in order to increase the availability of the cellulosic material for those steps. Without this pretreatment, the structural complexity of the biomass will hinder conversion of the cellulosic material to ethanol.
  • Pretreatment of biomass can also result in release of byproducts that are undesirable to the process as a whole.
  • Different types of biomass will contain varying amounts of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and other components.
  • Pretreatment of the biomass which is necessary to access the sugars from the cellulose and hemicellulose may also result in production of byproducts that may interfere in the hydrolysis and fermentation steps, resulting in reduced overall process efficiency and ethanol production.
  • Such byproducts may include sugar based oligomers and lignin based inhibitors.
  • Described herein are processes for preconditioning pretreated lignocellulosic material to improve availability for enzymatic hydrolysis (saccharification). Also described are processes for producing a hydrolysis product and/or a fermentation product from such preconditioned lignocellulosic material. Compositions suitable for use in methods and/or processes of the invention are also described.
  • the present invention is based on the surprising discovery that preconditioning of pretreated biomass with a combination of laccase and beta-glucosidase prior to hydrolysis reduces DP2 concentration and lignin-based inhibitors, thereby improving enzyme hydrolysis and increasing glucose yield.
  • the invention relates to processes for preconditioning pretreated lignocellulose-containing material, the process comprising incubating the pretreated lignocellulose-containing material with laccase and beta-glucosidase prior to hydrolysis.
  • the invention in another aspect, relates to processes for producing a hydrolysis product from lignocellulose-containing material, the processes comprising the steps of preconditioning the lignocellulose-containing material by incubation with laccase and beta-glucosidase, followed by hydrolysis.
  • the invention relates to processes for producing a fermentation product from lignocellulose-containing material, the processes comprising the steps of preconditioning the lignocellulose-containing material by incubation with laccase and beta-glucosidase, followed by hydrolysis to obtain a hydrolysis product and fermentation of the hydrolysis product to obtain a fermentation product.
  • the invention relates to an enzyme preconditioning composition for the preconditioning of unwashed pretreated fractionated corn fiber, the composition comprising laccase and beta-glucosidase.
  • Beta-Glucosidase
  • beta-glucosidase means a beta-D-glucoside glucohydrolase (E.C. 3.2.1.21) that catalyzes the hydrolysis of terminal non-reducing beta-D-glucosyl residues with the release of beta-D-glucose.
  • Beta-glucosidase activity may be determined using p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside as substrate according to the procedure of Venturi et al., 2002, Extracellular beta-D-glucosidase from Chaetomium thermophilum var. coprophilum : production, purification and some biochemical properties, J. Basic Microbiol. 42: 55-66.
  • beta-glucosidase is defined as 1.0 ⁇ mole of p-nitrophenolate anion produced per minute at 25° C., pH 4.8 from 1 mM p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside as substrate in 50 mM sodium citrate containing 0.01% TWEEN® 20 (polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate).
  • CBH cellobiohydrolase
  • E.C. 3.2.1.91 1,4-beta-D-glucan cellobiohydrolase (E.C. 3.2.1.91) that catalyzes the hydrolysis of 1,4-beta-D-glucosidic linkages in cellulose, cellooligosaccharides, or any beta-1,4-linked glucose containing polymer, releasing cellobiose from the reducing or non-reducing ends of the chain
  • Teeri 1997, Crystalline cellulose degradation: New insight into the function of cellobiohydrolases, Trends in Biotechnology 15: 160-167; Teeri et al., 1998, Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolases: why so efficient on crystalline cellulose?, Biochem. Soc. Trans. 26: 173-178).
  • Cellobiohydrolase activity is determined according to the procedures described by Lever et al., 1972 , Anal. Biochem. 47: 273-279; van Tilbeurgh et al., 1982 , FEBS Letters, 149: 152-156; van Tilbeurgh and Claeyssens, 1985 , FEBS Letters, 187: 283-288; and Tomme et al., 1988 , Eur. J. Biochem. 170: 575-581.
  • the Tomme et al. method can be used to determine cellobiohydrolase activity.
  • cellulolytic enzyme preparation means one or more (e.g., several) enzymes that hydrolyze a cellulosic material. Such enzymes include endoglucanase(s), cellobiohydrolase(s), beta-glucosidase(s), or combinations thereof.
  • the two basic approaches for measuring cellulolytic activity include: (1) measuring the total cellulolytic activity, and (2) measuring the individual cellulolytic activities (endoglucanases, cellobiohydrolases, and beta-glucosidases) as reviewed in Zhang et al., Outlook for cellulase improvement: Screening and selection strategies, 2006 , Biotechnology Advances 24: 452-481.
  • Total cellulolytic activity is usually measured using insoluble substrates, including Whatman No 1 filter paper, microcrystalline cellulose, bacterial cellulose, algal cellulose, cotton, pretreated lignocellulose, etc.
  • the most common total cellulolytic activity assay is the filter paper assay using Whatman No 1 filter paper as the substrate.
  • the assay was established by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (Ghose, 1987, Measurement of cellulase activities, Pure Appl. Chem. 59: 257-68).
  • Cellulolytic enzyme activity is determined by measuring the increase in hydrolysis of a cellulosic material by cellulolytic enzyme(s) under the following conditions: 1-50 mg of cellulolytic enzyme protein/g of cellulose in Pretreated Corn Stover (“PCS”) (or other pretreated cellulosic material) for 3-7 days at a suitable temperature, e.g., 50° C., 55° C., or 60° C., compared to a control hydrolysis without addition of cellulolytic enzyme protein.
  • PCS Pretreated Corn Stover
  • Typical conditions are 1 ml reactions, washed or unwashed PCS, 5% insoluble solids, 50 mM sodium acetate pH 5, 1 mM MnSO 4 , 50° C., 55° C., or 60° C., 72 hours, sugar analysis by AMINEX® HPX-87H column (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, Calif., USA).
  • hemicellulolytic enzyme means one or more (e.g., several) enzymes that hydrolyze a hemicellulosic material. See, for example, Shallom and Shoham, 2003 , Current Opinion In Microbiology 6(3): 219-228). Hemicellulases are key components in the degradation of plant biomass.
  • hemicellulases include, but are not limited to, an acetylmannan esterase, an acetylxylan esterase, an arabinanase, an arabinofuranosidase, a coumaric acid esterase, a feruloyl esterase, a galactosidase, a glucuronidase, a glucuronoyl esterase, a mannanase, a mannosidase, a xylanase, and a xylosidase.
  • hemicelluloses are a heterogeneous group of branched and linear polysaccharides that are bound via hydrogen bonds to the cellulose microfibrils in the plant cell wall, crosslinking them into a robust network. Hemicelluloses are also covalently attached to lignin, forming together with cellulose a highly complex structure. The variable structure and organization of hemicelluloses require the concerted action of many enzymes for its complete degradation.
  • the catalytic modules of hemicellulases are either glycoside hydrolases (GHs) that hydrolyze glycosidic bonds, or carbohydrate esterases (CEs), which hydrolyze ester linkages of acetate or ferulic acid side groups.
  • GHs glycoside hydrolases
  • CEs carbohydrate esterases
  • catalytic modules based on homology of their primary sequence, can be assigned into GH and CE families. Some families, with an overall similar fold, can be further grouped into clans, marked alphabetically (e.g., GH-A). A most informative and updated classification of these and other carbohydrate active enzymes is available in the Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZy) database. Hemicellulolytic enzyme activities can be measured according to Ghose and Bisaria, 1987 , Pure & Appl. Chem.
  • a suitable temperature such as 40° C.-80° C., e.g., 50° C., 55° C., 60° C., 65° C., or 70° C.
  • a suitable pH such as 4-9, e.g., 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, or 7.0.
  • laccase means an oxidase family enzyme (E.C. 3.2.1.21) that oxidizes phenols and similar molecules.
  • mature polypeptide means a polypeptide in its final form following translation and any post-translational modifications, such as N-terminal processing, C-terminal truncation, glycosylation, phosphorylation, etc.
  • the mature polypeptide may be identified, using, e.g., the SignalP program (Nielsen et al., 1997 , Protein Engineering 10: 1-6) that predicts a portion of the amino acid sequence as a signal peptide. As such, the mature polypeptide would be identified as the sequence lacking such redicted signal portion.
  • a host cell may produce a mixture of two of more different mature polypeptides (i.e., with a different C-terminal and/or N-terminal amino acid) expressed by the same polynucleotide.
  • mature polypeptide coding sequence means a polynucleotide that encodes a mature polypeptide having enzyme activity.
  • parent means an enzyme to which an alteration is made to produce a variant.
  • the parent may be a naturally occurring (wild-type) polypeptide or a variant thereof.
  • polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity means a polypeptide that catalyzes the enhancement of the hydrolysis of a cellulosic material by enzyme having cellulolytic activity.
  • AA9 auxiliary Activity 9 or “AA9” means a polypeptide classified as a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase (Quinlan et al., 2011 , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 208: 15079-15084; Phillips et al., 2011 , ACS Chem. Biol. 6: 1399-1406; Lin et al., 2012 , Structure 20: 1051-1061). AA9 polypeptides were formerly classified into the glycoside hydrolase Family 61 (GH61) according to Henrissat, 1991 , Biochem. J. 280: 309-316, and Henrissat and Bairoch, 1996 , Biochem. J.
  • AA9 polypeptides enhance the hydrolysis of a cellulosic material by an enzyme having cellulolytic activity.
  • Cellulolytic enhancing activity may be determined by measuring the increase in reducing sugars or the increase of the total of cellobiose and glucose from the hydrolysis of a cellulosic material by cellulolytic enzyme under the following conditions: 1-50 mg of total protein/g of cellulose in pretreated corn stover (PCS), wherein total protein is comprised of 50-99.5% w/w cellulolytic enzyme protein and 0.5-50% w/w protein of an AA9 polypeptide for 1-7 days at a suitable temperature, such as 40° C.-80° C., e.g., 50° C., 55° C., 60° C., 65° C., or 70° C., and a suitable pH, such as 4-9, e.g., 4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5, 8.0, or 8.5, compared to
  • AA9 polypeptide enhancing activity can be determined using a mixture of CELLUCLAST® 1.5L (Novozymes A/S, Bags ⁇ rd, Denmark) in the presence of 2-3% of total protein weight Aspergillus oryzae beta-glucosidase (recombinantly produced in Aspergillus oryzae according to WO 02/095014) or 2-3% of total protein weight Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (recombinantly produced in Aspergillus oryzae as described in WO 02/095014) of cellulase protein loading is used as the source of the cellulolytic activity.
  • AA9 polypeptide enhancing activity can also be determined by incubating an AA9 polypeptide with 0.5% phosphoric acid swollen cellulose (PASC), 100 mM sodium acetate pH 5, 1 mM MnSO 4 , 0.1% gallic acid, 0.025 mg/ml of Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase, and 0.01% TRITON® X-100 (4-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)phenyl-polyethylene glycol) for 24-96 hours at 40° C. followed by determination of the glucose released from the PASC
  • PASC phosphoric acid swollen cellulose
  • AA9 polypeptide enhancing activity can also be determined according to WO 2013/028928 for high temperature compositions.
  • AA9 polypeptides enhance the hydrolysis of a cellulosic material catalyzed by enzyme having cellulolytic activity by reducing the amount of cellulolytic enzyme required to reach the same degree of hydrolysis preferably at least 1.01-fold, e.g., at least 1.05-fold, at least 1.10-fold, at least 1.25-fold, at least 1.5-fold, at least 2-fold, at least 3-fold, at least 4-fold, at least 5-fold, at least 10-fold, or at least 20-fold.
  • variant means a polypeptide having enzyme or enzyme enhancing activity comprising an alteration, i.e., a substitution, insertion, and/or deletion, at one or more (e.g., several) positions.
  • a substitution means replacement of the amino acid occupying a position with a different amino acid;
  • a deletion means removal of the amino acid occupying a position; and
  • an insertion means adding an amino acid adjacent to and immediately following the amino acid occupying a position.
  • wild-type enzyme means an enzyme expressed by a naturally occurring microorganism, such as a bacterium, yeast, or filamentous fungus found in nature.
  • allelic variant means any of two or more (e.g., several) alternative forms of a gene occupying the same chromosomal locus. Allelic variation arises naturally through mutation, and may result in polymorphism within populations. Gene mutations can be silent (no change in the encoded polypeptide) or may encode polypeptides having altered amino acid sequences.
  • An allelic variant of a polypeptide is a polypeptide encoded by an allelic variant of a gene.
  • coding sequence means a polynucleotide, which directly specifies the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide.
  • the boundaries of the coding sequence are generally determined by an open reading frame, which begins with a start codon such as ATG, GTG, or TTG and ends with a stop codon such as TAA, TAG, or TGA.
  • the coding sequence may be a genomic DNA, cDNA, synthetic DNA, or a combination thereof.
  • fragment means a polypeptide having one or more (e.g., several) amino acids absent from the amino and/or carboxyl terminus of a mature polypeptide main; wherein the fragment has enzyme activity.
  • a fragment contains at least 85%, e.g., at least 90% or at least 95% of the amino acid residues of the mature polypeptide of an enzyme.
  • mature polypeptide means a polypeptide in its final form following translation and any post-translational modifications, such as N-terminal processing, C-terminal truncation, glycosylation, phosphorylation, etc.
  • mature polypeptide of an A. fumigatus cellobiohydrolase I is amino acids 27 to 532 of SEQ ID NO: 10 herein based on the SignalP program (Nielsen et al., 1997 , Protein Engineering 10: 1-6) that predicts amino acids 1 to 26 of SEQ ID NO: 10 herein are a signal peptide.
  • the mature polypeptide of an A is amino acids 27 to 532 of SEQ ID NO: 10 herein based on the SignalP program (Nielsen et al., 1997 , Protein Engineering 10: 1-6) that predicts amino acids 1 to 26 of SEQ ID NO: 10 herein are a signal peptide.
  • the mature polypeptide of an A is a signal peptide.
  • fumigates cellobiohydrolase II is amino acids 20 to 454 of SEQ ID NO: 11 herein based on the SignalP program that predicts amino acids 1 to 19 of SEQ ID NO: 11 herein are a signal peptide.
  • the mature polypeptide of an A. fumigatus beta-glucosidase is amino acids 20 to 863 of SEQ ID NO: 5 herein based on the SignalP program that predicts amino acids 1 to 19 of SEQ ID NO: 5 herein are a signal peptide.
  • the mature polypeptide of a Penicillium sp. GH61 polypeptide is amino acids 26 to 253 of SEQ ID NO: 7 herein based on the SignalP program that predicts amino acids 1 to 25 of SEQ ID NO: 7 herein are a signal peptide.
  • a host cell may produce a mixture of two of more different mature polypeptides (i.e., with a different C-terminal and/or N-terminal amino acid) expressed by the same polynucleotide.
  • mature polypeptide coding sequence means a polynucleotide that encodes a mature polypeptide having enzyme activity.
  • parent means an enzyme to which an alteration is made to produce a variant.
  • the parent may be a naturally occurring (wild-type) polypeptide or a variant thereof.
  • PCS or “Pretreated Corn Stover” means a cellulosic material derived from corn stover by treatment with heat and dilute sulfuric acid, alkaline pretreatment, or neutral pretreatment.
  • sequence identity The relatedness between two amino acid sequences or between two nucleotide sequences is described by the parameter “sequence identity”.
  • the sequence identity between two amino acid sequences is determined using the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm (Needleman and Wunsch, 1970 , J. Mol. Biol. 48: 443-453) as implemented in the Needle program of the EMBOSS package (EMBOSS: The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite, Rice et al., 2000 , Trends Genet. 16: 276-277), preferably version 5.0.0 or later.
  • the parameters used are gap open penalty of 10, gap extension penalty of 0.5, and the EBLOSUM62 (EMBOSS version of BLOSUM62) substitution matrix.
  • the output of Needle labeled “longest identity” (obtained using the ⁇ nobrief option) is used as the percent identity and is calculated as follows:
  • sequence identity between two deoxyribonucleotide sequences is determined using the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm (Needleman and Wunsch, 1970, supra) as implemented in the Needle program of the EMBOSS package (EMBOSS: The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite, Rice et al., 2000, supra), preferably version 5.0.0 or later.
  • the parameters used are gap open penalty of 10, gap extension penalty of 0.5, and the EDNAFULL (EMBOSS version of NCBI NUC4.4) substitution matrix.
  • the output of Needle labeled “longest identity” is used as the percent identity and is calculated as follows:
  • subsequence means a polynucleotide having one or more (e.g., several) nucleotides absent from the 5′ and/or 3′ end of a mature polypeptide coding sequence; wherein the subsequence encodes a fragment having enzyme activity.
  • a subsequence contains at least 85%, e.g., at least 90% or at least 95% of the nucleotides of the mature polypeptide coding sequence of an enzyme.
  • references to “about” a value or parameter herein includes aspects that are directed to that value or parameter per se. For example, description referring to “about X” includes the aspect “X”.
  • FIG. 1 is a graph of glucose concentration after hydrolysis of preconditioned uwPCF under the conditions described in Example 1.
  • FIG. 2 is a graph of glucose concentration in response to varied laccase doses on low solids uwPCF under the conditions described in Example 5.
  • Described herein are processes for preconditioning biomass to increase production of fermentable sugars and to decrease production of interfering byproducts, such as oligomers (e.g., DP2) and lignin-based inhibitors. Also described are preconditioning compositions suitable for use in the processes and/or methods described herein. Further described are processes of producing hydrolysis products using such preconditioned biomass and to processes of producing fermentation products using such preconditioned biomass.
  • interfering byproducts such as oligomers (e.g., DP2) and lignin-based inhibitors.
  • the present inventors have surprisingly found that enzymatic preconditioning of lignocellulose-containing material with a combination of laccase and beta-glucosidase before saccharifying (i.e., hydrolyzing) with a cellulolytic enzyme preparation results in decreased inhibitors of saccharification and lignin based inhibitors.
  • the preconditioning therefore results in improved saccharification, e.g. improved sugar concentrations, as compared to when no preconditioning is done.
  • the preconditioning is carried out before saccharification (i.e., hydrolysis), in which sugars are produced.
  • Methods of the invention result in increased yield of fermentable sugars and, ultimately, fermentation products, as compared to preconditioning with laccase without beta-glucosidase.
  • the laccase mode of action is known to be through the creation of semi-stable free radicals. While not wishing to be bound by any particular theory, it is believed that a combination of laccase and beta-glucosidase work synergistically to create more accessible cellulose for subsequent hydrolysis. Because the free radicals can degrade proteins/enzymes, in a particular embodiment the methods described herein are provided as a preconditioning step, prior to hydrolysis.
  • the sugars may be converted into a number of products including fermentation products (e.g., ethanol or butanol) or into syrups (e.g., High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) and lignocellulose-derived plastics including polyethylene, polystyrene, polypropylene).
  • fermentation products e.g., ethanol or butanol
  • syrups e.g., High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) and lignocellulose-derived plastics including polyethylene, polystyrene, polypropylene.
  • Other end products include lactic acid which can serve as a feedstock for production of polylactic acid (PLA) to replace petrochemical packaging materials such as PET.
  • PLA polylactic acid
  • cellulosic material means any material containing cellulose.
  • the predominant polysaccharide in the primary cell wall of biomass is cellulose, the second most abundant is hemicellulose, and the third is pectin.
  • the secondary cell wall, produced after the cell has stopped growing, also contains polysaccharides and is strengthened by polymeric lignin covalently cross-linked to hemicellulose.
  • Cellulose is a homopolymer of anhydrocellobiose and thus a linear beta-(1-4)-D-glucan, while hemicelluloses include a variety of compounds, such as xylans, xyloglucans, arabinoxylans, and mannans in complex branched structures with a spectrum of substituents. Although generally polymorphous, cellulose is found in plant tissue primarily as an insoluble crystalline matrix of parallel glucan chains. Hemicelluloses usually hydrogen bond to cellulose, as well as to other hemicelluloses, which help stabilize the cell wall matrix.
  • Cellulose is generally found, for example, in the stems, leaves, hulls, husks, and cobs of plants or leaves, branches, and wood of trees.
  • the cellulosic material may be, but is not limited to, agricultural residue, herbaceous material (including energy crops), municipal solid waste, pulp and paper mill residue, waste paper, and wood (including forestry residue) (see, for example, Wiselogel et al., 1995, in Handbook on Bioethanol (Charles E. Wyman, editor), pp.
  • the cellulose may be in the form of lignocellulose, a plant cell wall material containing lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose in a mixed matrix.
  • the cellulosic material is any biomass material.
  • the cellulosic material is lignocellulose, which comprises cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin.
  • the cellulosic material is agricultural residue, herbaceous material (including energy crops), municipal solid waste, pulp and paper mill residue, waste paper, or wood (including forestry residue).
  • the cellulosic material is arundo, bagasse, bamboo, corn cob, corn fiber, corn stover, miscanthus, rice straw, switchgrass, or wheat straw.
  • Corn kernels are comprised of three main components: bran, endosperm, and germ.
  • Corn bran holds the fiber, the hard outer layer of the kernel.
  • the endosperm contains the majority of the starch, found on the interior of the kernel.
  • the germ is at the center of the kernel by the bottom tip cap, containing an abundance of proteins and oils.
  • the cellulosic material is fiber, such as corn fiber or wheat fiber. Fiber, such as corn or wheat fiber, may be obtained by fractionation. Fractionation technologies are well-known in the art. In one embodiment the cellulosic material is fiber obtained from dry fractionation processes. In one embodiment the cellulosic material is fiber obtained from wet fractionation processes.
  • the cellulosic material is aspen, eucalyptus, fir, pine, poplar, spruce, or willow.
  • the cellulosic material is algal cellulose, bacterial cellulose, cotton linter, filter paper, microcrystalline cellulose (e.g., AVICEL®), or phosphoric-acid treated cellulose.
  • the cellulosic material is an aquatic biomass.
  • aquatic biomass means biomass produced in an aquatic environment by a photosynthesis process.
  • the aquatic biomass may be algae, emergent plants, floating-leaf plants, or submerged plants.
  • the cellulosic material may be used as is or may be subjected to pretreatment, using conventional methods known in the art, as described more fully herein. In a preferred embodiment, the cellulosic material is pretreated.
  • any pretreatment process known in the art may be used to disrupt plant cell wall components of the cellulosic material (Chandra et al., 2007 , Adv. Biochem. Engin./Biotechnol. 108: 67-93; Galbe and Zacchi, 2007 , Adv. Biochem. Engin./Biotechnol. 108: 41-65; Hendriks and Zeeman, 2009 , Bioresource Technology 100: 10-18; Mosier et al., 2005 , Bioresource Technology 96: 673-686; Taherzadeh and Karimi, 2008 , Int. J. Mol. Sci. 9: 1621-1651; Yang and Wyman, 2008 , Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining - Biofpr. 2: 26-40).
  • the cellulosic material may also be subjected to particle size reduction, sieving, pre-soaking, wetting, washing, and/or conditioning prior to or with additional pretreatment methods, using methods known in the art or as otherwise described herein.
  • Conventional pretreatments include, but are not limited to, steam pretreatment (with or without explosion), dilute acid pretreatment, hot water pretreatment, alkaline pretreatment, lime pretreatment, wet oxidation, wet explosion, ammonia fiber explosion, organosolv pretreatment, and biological pretreatment.
  • Additional pretreatments include ammonia percolation, ultrasound, electroporation, microwave, supercritical CO 2 , supercritical H 2 O, ozone, ionic liquid, and gamma irradiation pretreatments.
  • the cellulosic material is pretreated before hydrolysis and/or fermentation. Pretreatment is preferably performed prior to the hydrolysis. In a further embodiment preconditioning is performed after pretreatment and before hydrolysis and fermentation.
  • pretreatment may be carried out simultaneously with enzyme hydrolysis to release fermentable sugars, such as glucose, xylose, and/or cellobiose.
  • fermentable sugars such as glucose, xylose, and/or cellobiose.
  • the pretreatment step itself results in some conversion of biomass to fermentable sugars (even in absence of enzymes).
  • the cellulosic material is heated to disrupt the plant cell wall components, including lignin, hemicellulose, and cellulose to make the cellulose and other fractions, e.g., hemicellulose, accessible to enzymes.
  • the cellulosic material is passed to or through a reaction vessel where steam is injected to increase the temperature to the required temperature and pressure and is retained therein for the desired reaction time.
  • Steam pretreatment is preferably performed at 140-250° C., e.g., 160-200° C. or 170-190° C., where the optimal temperature range depends on optional addition of a chemical catalyst.
  • Residence time for the steam pretreatment is preferably 1-60 minutes, e.g., 1-30 minutes, 1-20 minutes, 3-12 minutes, or 4-10 minutes, where the optimal residence time depends on the temperature and optional addition of a chemical catalyst.
  • Steam pretreatment allows for relatively high solids loadings, so that the cellulosic material is generally only moist during the pretreatment.
  • the steam pretreatment is often combined with an explosive discharge of the material after the pretreatment, which is known as steam explosion, that is, rapid flashing to atmospheric pressure and turbulent flow of the material to increase the accessible surface area by fragmentation (Duff and Murray, 1996 , Bioresource Technology 855: 1-33; Galbe and Zacchi, 2002 , Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 59: 618-628; U.S.
  • Patent Application No. 2002/0164730 During steam pretreatment, hemicellulose acetyl groups are cleaved and the resulting acid autocatalyzes partial hydrolysis of the hemicellulose to monosaccharides and oligosaccharides. Lignin is removed to only a limited extent.
  • Chemical Pretreatment refers to any chemical pretreatment that promotes the separation and/or release of cellulose, hemicellulose, and/or lignin. Such a pretreatment may convert crystalline cellulose to amorphous cellulose.
  • suitable chemical pretreatment processes include, for example, dilute acid pretreatment, lime pretreatment, wet oxidation, ammonia fiber/freeze expansion (AFEX), ammonia percolation (APR), ionic liquid, and organosolv pretreatments.
  • a chemical catalyst such as H 2 SO 4 or SO 2 (typically 0.3 to 5% w/w) is sometimes added prior to steam pretreatment, which decreases the time and temperature, increases the recovery, and improves enzymatic hydrolysis (Ballesteros et al., 2006 , Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 129-132: 496-508; Varga et al., 2004 , Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 113-116: 509-523; Sassner et al., 2006 , Enzyme Microb. Technol. 39: 756-762).
  • H 2 SO 4 or SO 2 typically 0.3 to 5% w/w
  • the cellulosic material is mixed with dilute acid, typically H 2 SO 4 , and water to form a slurry, heated by steam to the desired temperature, and after a residence time flashed to atmospheric pressure.
  • dilute acid pretreatment may be performed with a number of reactor designs, e.g., plug-flow reactors, counter-current reactors, or continuous counter-current shrinking bed reactors (Duff and Murray, 1996, supra; Schell et al., 2004 , Bioresource Technology 91: 179-188; Lee et al., 1999 , Adv. Biochem. Eng. Biotechnol. 65: 93-115).
  • alkaline pretreatments include, but are not limited to, sodium hydroxide, lime, wet oxidation, ammonia percolation (APR), and ammonia fiber/freeze expansion (AFEX) pretreatment.
  • Lime pretreatment is performed with calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide at temperatures of 85-150° C. and residence times from 1 hour to several days (Wyman et al., 2005 , Bioresource Technology 96: 1959-1966; Mosier et al., 2005, supra).
  • WO 2006/110891, WO 2006/110899, WO 2006/110900, and WO 2006/110901 disclose pretreatment methods using ammonia.
  • Wet oxidation is a thermal pretreatment performed typically at 180-200° C. for 5-15 minutes with addition of an oxidative agent such as hydrogen peroxide or over-pressure of oxygen (Schmidt and Thomsen, 1998 , Bioresource Technology 64: 139-151; Palonen et al., 2004 , Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 117: 1-17; Varga et al., 2004 , Biotechnol. Bioeng. 88: 567-574; Martin et al., 2006 , J. Chem. Technol. Biotechnol. 81: 1669-1677).
  • the pretreatment is performed preferably at 1-40% dry matter, e.g., 2-30% dry matter or 5-20% dry matter, and often the initial pH is increased by the addition of alkali such as sodium carbonate.
  • a modification of the wet oxidation pretreatment method known as wet explosion (combination of wet oxidation and steam explosion) can handle dry matter up to 30%.
  • wet explosion combination of wet oxidation and steam explosion
  • the oxidizing agent is introduced during pretreatment after a certain residence time.
  • the pretreatment is then ended by flashing to atmospheric pressure (WO 2006/032282).
  • Ammonia fiber expansion involves treating the cellulosic material with liquid or gaseous ammonia at moderate temperatures such as 90-150° C. and high pressure such as 17-20 bar for 5-10 minutes, where the dry matter content can be as high as 60% (Gollapalli et al., 2002 , Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 98: 23-35; Chundawat et al., 2007 , Biotechnol. Bioeng. 96: 219-231; Alizadeh et al., 2005 , Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 121: 1133-1141; Teymouri et al., 2005 , Bioresource Technology 96: 2014-2018).
  • cellulose and hemicelluloses remain relatively intact. Lignin-carbohydrate complexes are cleaved.
  • Organosolv pretreatment delignifies the cellulosic material by extraction using aqueous ethanol (40-60% ethanol) at 160-200° C. for 30-60 minutes (Pan et al., 2005 , Biotechnol. Bioeng. 90: 473-481; Pan et al., 2006 , Biotechnol. Bioeng. 94: 851-861; Kurabi et al., 2005 , Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 121: 219-230). Sulphuric acid is usually added as a catalyst. In organosolv pretreatment, the majority of hemicellulose and lignin is removed.
  • the chemical pretreatment is preferably carried out as a dilute acid treatment, and more preferably as a continuous dilute acid treatment.
  • the acid is typically sulfuric acid, but other acids may also be used, such as acetic acid, citric acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid, tartaric acid, succinic acid, hydrogen chloride, or mixtures thereof.
  • Mild acid treatment is conducted in the pH range of preferably 1-5, e.g., 1-4 or 1-2.5.
  • the acid concentration is in the range from preferably 0.01 to 10 wt. % acid, e.g., 0.05 to 5 wt. % acid or 0.1 to 2 wt. % acid.
  • the acid is contacted with the cellulosic material and held at a temperature in the range of preferably 140-200° C., e.g., 165-190° C., for periods ranging from 1 to 60 minutes.
  • pretreatment takes place in an aqueous slurry.
  • the cellulosic material is present during pretreatment in amounts preferably between 10-80 wt. %, e.g., 20-70 wt. % or 30-60 wt. %, such as around 40 wt. %.
  • the pretreated cellulosic material may be unwashed or washed using any method known in the art, e.g., washed with water.
  • mechanical pretreatment or Physical pretreatment refers to any pretreatment that promotes size reduction of particles.
  • pretreatment may involve various types of grinding or milling (e.g., dry milling, wet milling, or vibratory ball milling).
  • the cellulosic material may be pretreated both physically (mechanically) and chemically. Mechanical or physical pretreatment may be coupled with steaming/steam explosion, hydrothermolysis, dilute or mild acid treatment, high temperature, high pressure treatment, irradiation (e.g., microwave irradiation), or combinations thereof.
  • high pressure means pressure in the range of preferably about 100 to about 400 psi, e.g., about 150 to about 250 psi.
  • high temperature means temperature in the range of about 100 to about 300° C., e.g., about 140 to about 200° C.
  • mechanical or physical pretreatment is performed in a batch-process using a steam gun hydrolyzer system that uses high pressure and high temperature as defined above, e.g., a Sunds Hydrolyzer available from Sunds Defibrator AB, Sweden.
  • the physical and chemical pretreatments may be carried out sequentially or simultaneously, as desired.
  • the cellulosic material is subjected to physical (mechanical) or chemical pretreatment, or any combination thereof, to promote the separation and/or release of cellulose, hemicellulose, and/or lignin.
  • Biological pretreatment refers to any biological pretreatment that promotes the separation and/or release of cellulose, hemicellulose, and/or lignin from the cellulosic material.
  • Biological pretreatment techniques may involve applying lignin-solubilizing microorganisms and/or enzymes (see, for example, Hsu, T.-A., 1996, Pretreatment of biomass, in Handbook on Bioethanol: Production and Utilization , Wyman, C. E., ed., Taylor & Francis, Washington, D.C., 179-212; Ghosh and Singh, 1993 , Adv. Appl. Microbiol. 39: 295-333; McMillan, J.
  • preconditioning pretreated lignocellulose-containing material with a combination of a phenol oxidizing enzyme and a glycosidase is effective to reduce degradation products from pretreatment of lignocellulose-containing material.
  • the combination of phenol oxidizing enzyme and glycosidase comprises laccase and beta-glucosidase.
  • preconditioning refers to conditioning of a cellulosic material. In a particular embodiment the preconditioning is performed after cellulosic material has been pretreated. In another embodiment the preconditioning is performed before the cellulosic material has been hydrolyzed (saccharified). “Preconditioning” may also be referred to as detoxification of pretreated cellulosic material or to a stage of pretreatment within a multi-stage pretreatment process, after a step of pretreatment to disrupt plant cell wall components of the cellulosic material has occurred.
  • degradation products include lignin degradation products, cellulose degradation products and hemicellulose degradation products.
  • the pretreated lignin degradation products may be phenolics in nature.
  • the pretreated cellulose degradation products may comprise cellodextrins, e.g., cellobiose, cellotriose, etc.
  • Hemicellulose degradation products include furans from sugars (such as hexoses and/or pentoses), including xylose, mannose, galactose, rhamanose, and arabinose.
  • examples of hemicelluloses include xylan, galactoglucomannan, arabinogalactan, arabinoglucuronoxylan, glucuronoxylan, and derivatives and combinations thereof.
  • inhibitory compounds i.e., pretreated lignocellulose degradation products
  • examples of inhibitory compounds include 4-OH benzyl alcohol, 4-OH benzaldehyde, 4-OH benzoic acid, trimethyl benzaldehyde, 2-furoic acid, coumaric acid, ferulic acid, phenol, guaiacol, veratrole, pyrogallollol, pyrogallol mono methyl ether, vanillyl alcohol, vanillin, isovanillin, vanillic acid, isovanillic acid, homovanillic acid, veratryl alcohol, veratraldehyde, veratric acid, 2-O-methyl gallic acid, syringyl alcohol, syringaldehyde, syringic acid, trimethyl gallic acid, homocatechol, ethyl vanillin, creosol, p-methyl anisol, anisaldehyde, anisic acid, furfural, hydroxymethylfurfural,
  • Preconditioning processes described herein are preferably carried out at a pH that is suitable for the phenol oxidizing enzyme and glycosidase.
  • the pH is between 2 and 7, preferably between about 3 and about 6, especially between about 4 and about 5.5, more particularly about 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 or 5.3.
  • the temperature during preconditioning is a temperature suitable for the phenol oxidizing enzyme and a glycosidase.
  • the temperature during preconditioning is between 20° C. and 70° C., preferably between about 40° C. and about 60° C., more preferably about 50° C.
  • preconditioning incubating occurs for at least 30 minutes, e.g., at least about 1 hour, at least about 2 hours, at least about 3 hours, at least about 4 hours, at least about 5 hours, at least about 8 hours, at least about 12 hours, or at least about 24 hours, such as from about 30 minutes to about 24 hours.
  • Suitable pHs, temperatures and other process conditions can easily be determined by one skilled in the art.
  • hydrolysis can be significantly improved at low hydrolysis enzyme loading, such that a similar sugar concentration can be obtained from less hydrolysis enzymes than would be used in hydrolysis of non-preconditioned material.
  • use of the same enzyme loading as would be used in hydrolysis of non-preconditioned material in hydrolysis of preconditioned material would increase production of hydrolysis products.
  • preconditioning processes described herein fermentation time may be reduced, such that the total time from material to fermentation product is reduced. Additionally, preconditioning processes described herein may reduce the need for a washing step after pretreatment of the lignocellulose-containing material.
  • the invention relates to processes for preconditioning pretreated lignocellulose-containing material, the processes comprising incubating pretreated lignocellulose-containing material with a combination of a phenol oxidizing enzyme and a glycosidase.
  • the invention relates to processes for preconditioning pretreated lignocellulose-containing material, the processes comprising incubating pretreated lignocellulose-containing material with laccase and beta-glucosidase.
  • the preconditioning enzymes may be added in preconditioning processes simultaneously or separately.
  • the laccase and the beta-glucosidase are added at or about the same time.
  • the laccase is added prior to addition of the beta-glucosidase.
  • the beta-glucosidase is added prior to addition of the laccase.
  • the processes of preconditioning are preferably conducted prior to saccharification of the cellulosic material.
  • the invention relates to processes for preconditioning pretreated lignocellulose-containing material, the processes comprising incubating pretreated lignocellulose-containing material with laccase and beta-glucosidase, prior to saccharification of the pretreated lignocellulose-containing material.
  • enzymatic preconditioning of dilute acid pretreated fractionated unwashed corn fiber with a combination of laccase and beta-glucosidase before saccharifying (i.e., hydrolyzing) with a cellulolytic enzyme preparation resulted in increased glucose concentrations (See Example 1, Kettles R4 and R5), as compared to no preconditioning being done (See Example 1, Kettle R1), preconditioning with laccase alone (See Example 1, Kettle R2, R6), and preconditioning with laccase and a small amount of a cellulolytic enzyme preparation or hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation (See Example 1, Kettles R3, R7 and R8).
  • Example 5 demonstrates that in an enzymatic preconditioning screening trial, dose responses of laccase (liquid and granular) were evaluated on low solids unwashed pretreated corn stover. Because of the high starch content of dry fractionated corn fiber, a low dose of cellulolytic enzyme preparation may be realized. Additionally evaluated was a blend of glucoamylase to show the benefit of addition of a cellulolytic enzyme preparation.
  • the invention relates to processes for preconditioning pretreated lignocellulose-containing material, the processes comprising incubating pretreated lignocellulose-containing material with laccase and beta-glucosidase or a beta-glucosidase containing enzyme preparation for a period of time sufficient to precondition the pretreated lignocellulose-containing material such that the hydrolysis of the preconditioned pretreated lignocellulose-containing material results in an increased yield compared to a pretreated lignocellulose-containing material that is not so preconditioned.
  • the lignocellulose-containing material used in processes of the invention may be pretreated.
  • the pretreated lignocellulose-containing material may be pretreated using any suitable method. Suitable pretreatment methods are known in the art, such as those listed in the “Pretreatment”-section herein.
  • the pretreated lignocellulose-containing material has been dilute acid pretreated or auto-hydrolyzed before preconditioning.
  • the lignocellulose-containing material may be pretreated corn fiber, pretreated corn stover (PCS), pretreated corn cob, pretreated wheat straw, pretreated rice straw or pretreated switch grass.
  • the lignocellulose-containing material is dilute acid pretreated corn fiber.
  • PCS pretreated corn stover
  • Other examples of contemplated material are described in the “Cellulosic Materials”-section herein.
  • the pretreated lignocellulose-containing material is unwashed. In an embodiment the pretreated lignocellulose-containing material is un-detoxified. In an embodiment the lignocellulose-containing material is washed, undetoxified or unwashed pretreated corn fiber, corn stover (PCS), corn cob, wheat straw, rice straw and/or switch grass. In an embodiment the lignocellulose-containing material is fractionated. In an embodiment the lignocellulose-containing material may be pretreated dry fractionated corn fiber. In another embodiment the lignocellulose-containing material may be pretreated dry fractionated unwashed corn fiber. In an embodiment the lignocellulose-containing material may be pretreated wet fractionated corn fiber. In an embodiment preconditioning occurs at about 5-50% TS (Total Solids), such as about 10-40% TS, such as about 15-35% TS.
  • Total Solids Total Solids
  • the preconditioning enzymes may be of any origin, including of mammalian, plant and microbial origin, such as bacterial and fungal origin.
  • Phenol oxidizing enzymes may in preferred embodiments belong to any of the following EC classes including: Catechol oxidase (EC 1.10.3.1), Laccase (EC 1.10.3.2), o-Aminophenol oxidase (1.10.3.4); and Monophenol monooxygenase (1.14.18.1).
  • processes of the invention comprise addition of laccase as a preconditioning enzyme.
  • the laccase may belong to the following EC class: Laccase (EC 1.10.3.2).
  • the laccase is a laccase such as one from Myceliophthora thermophila (MtL), such as the laccase set forth as SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 95/33836 (SEQ ID NO: 1 herein).
  • MtL Myceliophthora thermophila
  • the laccase has at least 60%, at least 70% at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99% sequence identity to the Myceliophthora thermophila laccase disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 95/33836 (SEQ ID NO: 1 herein).
  • laccase loading is between 1-500 ⁇ g, such as 5-100 ⁇ g EP/g cellulose. In an embodiment the laccase loading is between 0.005 and 20 mg Enzyme Protein (EP)/g cellulose, such as 0.1-1 mg EP/g cellulose. In various embodiments the laccase is in liquid form, granular form or powdered form.
  • the glycosidase may in preferred embodiments belong to any of the following EC classes including: glucosidases (E.C. 3.2.1), beta-glucosidase (E.C.3.2.1.21), glucoamylase (E.C. 3.2.1.3) and alpha-glucosidase (E.C. 3.2.1.20).
  • glucosidases E.C. 3.2.1
  • beta-glucosidase E.C.3.2.1.21
  • glucoamylase E.C. 3.2.1.3
  • alpha-glucosidase E.C. 3.2.1.20
  • processes of the invention comprise addition of beta-glucosidase as a preconditioning enzyme.
  • the beta-glucosidase may be derived from a strain of Aspergillus , such as Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus fumigatus , or Aspergillus oryzae .
  • the beta-glucosidase loading is between 0.01 and 20 mg EP/g cellulose, such as 0.1-1 mg EP/g cellulose.
  • the beta-glucosidase is comprised in a beta-glucosidase containing enzyme preparation.
  • Other suitable beta-glucosidases and beta-glucosidase containing enzyme preparations are mentioned in the “beta-glucosidase”-section below.
  • additional enzymes may be present or included during preconditioning processes, including, but not limited to, cellulases and hemicellulases.
  • preconditioning enzymes may be added separately or simultaneously.
  • the invention provides preconditioning compositions comprising one or more preconditioning enzymes as described herein.
  • the invention provides enzyme preconditioning compositions comprising laccase and/or beta-glucosidase.
  • the invention relates to processes for producing a hydrolysis product from pretreated lignocellulose-containing material, comprising:
  • the preconditioning comprises incubating the pretreated lignocellulose-containing material with a combination of a phenol oxidizing enzyme and a glycosidase.
  • a phenol oxidizing enzyme is a laccase, such as one from Myceliophthora thermophila (MtL) (WO 95/33836 (SEQ ID NO: 1 herein)) and the glycosidase is a beta-glucosidase or a beta-glucosidase containing enzyme preparation.
  • preconditioning step (i) is carried out in accordance with preconditioning processes described herein.
  • preconditioning step (i) and hydrolyzing step (ii) are carried out simultaneously or sequentially.
  • the enzymes of each step are added at the same time, or are added in a stepwise fashion, such that the preconditioning step (i) is still occurring, at least in part, at the time of addition of the cellulolytic enzyme composition in hydrolyzing step (ii).
  • the preconditioning step (i) is still occurring, at least in part, at the time of addition of the cellulolytic enzyme composition in hydrolyzing step (ii).
  • at least a portion of each of the preconditioning and hydrolyzing are performed at the same time.
  • a time-course evaluation of the conversion of the starting substrate to fermentable sugars is made and timing of the addition of the one or more preconditioning enzymes and the cellulolytic enzyme composition is determined in order to maximize conversion of the substrate to fermentable sugars and maximize the yield of such fermentable sugars.
  • the preconditioning step (i) is completed prior to the initiation of the hydrolyzing step (ii).
  • Completion of the preconditioning step may be determined by depletion of the preconditioning enzyme, use of a predetermined amount of preconditioning enzyme, preconditioning of all substrate, and/or preconditioning of a predetermined amount of substrate.
  • the preconditioning step (i) of sequential processes contains enzymes with activity in the conversion of cellulosic material to fermentable sugars, e.g., cellulases and hemicellulases, such enzymes are present such that only a small portion of the material is converted and that all, or essentially all of the material remains unconverted until the hydrolysis step (ii) is performed.
  • the preconditioning step (i) of sequential processes contains enzymes with activity in the conversion of cellulosic material to fermentable sugars, e.g., cellulases and hemicellulases, such enzymes are present in an amount sufficient to provide a synergistic effect with regard to generation of free radicals from lignin derivatives and to create more accessible cellulose as compared to a preconditioning step without addition of such enzymes.
  • the pretreated preconditioned lignocellulose-containing material is hydrolyzed to break down cellulose and/or hemicellulose to fermentable sugars, such as glucose, cellobiose, xylose, xylulose, arabinose, mannose, galactose, and/or soluble oligosaccharides.
  • fermentable sugars such as glucose, cellobiose, xylose, xylulose, arabinose, mannose, galactose, and/or soluble oligosaccharides.
  • the saccharification is performed enzymatically using a cellulolytic enzyme preparation.
  • Enzymatic hydrolysis may be carried out in a suitable aqueous environment under conditions that may be readily determined by one skilled in the art.
  • hydrolysis is performed under conditions suitable for the activity of the cellulolytic enzyme preparation, preferably optimal for the cellulolytic enzyme preparation.
  • the hydrolysis may be carried out as a fed batch or continuous process where the preconditioned unwashed pretreated lignocellulose-containing material (substrate) is fed gradually to, for example, an enzyme containing hydrolysis solution.
  • the hydrolysis is generally performed in stirred-tank reactors or fermentors under controlled pH, temperature, and mixing conditions. Suitable process time, temperature and pH conditions may readily be determined by one skilled in the art.
  • the hydrolysis may last up to 200 hours, but is typically performed for preferably about 12 to about 120 hours, e.g., about 16 to about 72 hours or about 24 to about 48 hours.
  • the temperature is in the range of preferably about 25° C. to about 70° C., e.g., about 30° C. to about 65° C., about 40° C. to about 60° C., or about 50° C. to about 55° C.
  • the pH is in the range of preferably about 3 to about 8, e.g., about 3.5 to about 7, about 4 to about 6, or about 4.5 to about 5.5.
  • the dry solids content is in the range of preferably about 5 to about 50 wt. %, e.g., about 10 to about 40 wt. % or about 20 to about 30 wt. %.
  • the enzymes used in hydrolysis may comprise any protein useful in degrading the cellulosic material.
  • sugars obtained from hydrolysis step (ii), i.e., a “hydrolysis product,” may be fermented.
  • hydrolysis is carried out in the presence of one or more (e.g., several) proteins selected from the group consisting of a cellulase, an AA9 polypeptide, a hemicellulase, an esterase, an expansin, laccase, a ligninolytic enzyme, an oxidoreductase, a pectinase, a protease, and a swollenin.
  • the cellulase is preferably one or more (e.g., several) enzymes selected from the group consisting of an endoglucanase, a cellobiohydrolase, and a beta-glucosidase.
  • the hemicellulase is preferably one or more (e.g., several) enzymes selected from the group consisting of an acetylmannan esterase, an acetylxylan esterase, an arabinanase, an arabinofuranosidase, a coumaric acid esterase, a feruloyl esterase, a galactosidase, a glucuronidase, a glucuronoyl esterase, a mannanase, a mannosidase, a xylanase, and a xylosidase.
  • the oxidoreductase is preferably one or more (e.g., several) enzymes selected from the group consisting of a catalase, a laccase, and a peroxidase.
  • the compositions may also comprise one or more (e.g., several) enzymes selected from the group consisting of a hydrolase, an isomerase, a ligase, a lyase, an oxidoreductase, or a transferase, e.g., an alpha-galactosidase, alpha-glucosidase, aminopeptidase, amylase, beta-galactosidase, beta-glucosidase, beta-xylosidase, carbohydrase, carboxypeptidase, catalase, cellobiohydrolase, cellulase, chitinase, cutinase, cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase, deoxy
  • the hydrolysis is performed in the presence of a glucoamylase.
  • the glucoamylase may be derived from Talaromyces (e.g., Talaromyces emersonii ), Trametes (e.g., Trametes cingulate ) or Rhizopus (e.g., Rhizopus oryzae ).
  • the cellulolytic enzyme composition used in hydrolysis may be of fungal origin.
  • the cellulolytic enzyme composition is derived from Trichoderma (e.g., Trichoderma reesei ).
  • hydrolysis sacharification
  • a cellulolytic enzyme preparation including enzyme activities selected from the group of cellulase, endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, and beta-glucosidase (e.g., Aspergillus fumigatus or Aspergillus oryzae beta-glucosidase).
  • hydrolysis is carried out using a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity (e.g., a Thermoascus aurantiacus or Penicillium emersonii cellulolytic enhancing polypeptide).
  • a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity e.g., a Thermoascus aurantiacus or Penicillium emersonii cellulolytic enhancing polypeptide.
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation used for hydrolysis is of fungal origin, such as derived from Trichoderma (e.g., Trichoderma reesei ).
  • a hemicellulase may also be present or added during hydrolysis.
  • hydrolysis is carried out in the presence of a cellulolytic enzyme preparation including enzyme activities selected from the group of endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, and beta-glucosidase (e.g., Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase, such as the one shown in WO 2005/047499 or WO 2012/044915 (SEQ ID NO: 2 herein), or Aspergillus oryzae beta-glucosidase).
  • enzyme activities selected from the group of endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, and beta-glucosidase (e.g., Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase, such as the one shown in WO 2005/0474
  • hydrolysis is carried out in the presence of a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, such as GH61 polypeptide, e.g., a Thermoascus aurantiacus GH61 polypeptide, such as the one shown in WO 2005/074656 or Penicillium emersonii GH61 polypeptide, such as the one shown in WO 2011/041397 (SEQ ID NO: 3 herein).
  • GH61 polypeptide e.g., a Thermoascus aurantiacus GH61 polypeptide, such as the one shown in WO 2005/074656 or Penicillium emersonii GH61 polypeptide, such as the one shown in WO 2011/041397 (SEQ ID NO: 3 herein).
  • the hemicellulase may be a xylanase (e.g., an Aspergillus aculeatus , such as the one shown in WO 94/021785 or Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase, such as the one shown in WO 2006/078256 (SEQ ID NO: 6 herein)), or a xylosidase (e.g., Aspergillus fumigatus beta-xylosidase, such as the one shown in WO 2011/057140 (SEQ ID NO: 7 herein)).
  • a xylanase e.g., an Aspergillus aculeatus , such as the one shown in WO 94/021785 or Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase, such as the one shown in WO 2006/078256 (SEQ ID NO: 6 herein
  • a xylosidase e.g., Asper
  • a hemicellulase such as a hemicelluloytic enzyme preparation
  • the hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a cellulolytic enzyme preparation from Trichoderma reesei , further comprising Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase (WO 2006/078256, SEQ ID NO: 6 herein) and Aspergillus fumigatus beta-xylosidase (WO 2011/057140, SEQ ID NO: 7 herein).
  • hydrolysis is carried out in the presence of a cellulolytic enzyme preparation derived from Trichoderma (e.g., Trichoderma reesei ) including endoglucanase (EG) and cellobiohydrolase (CBH) further comprises a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity (e.g., a Thermoascus aurantiacus or Penicillium emersonii cellulolytic enhancing polypeptide) and a beta-glucosidase (e.g., Aspergillus fumigatus or Aspergillus oryzae beta-glucosidase).
  • a cellulolytic enzyme preparation derived from Trichoderma (e.g., Trichoderma reesei ) including endoglucanase (EG) and cellobiohydrolase (CBH) further comprises a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity (e.g., a Thermoascus auranti
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation present or added during hydrolysis, is a cellulolytic enzyme preparation derived from Trichoderma reesei further comprising AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity derived from a strain of Penicillium emersonii (SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 2011/041397, SEQ ID NO: 3 herein), Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 2005/047499, SEQ ID NO: 2 herein) variant F100D, S283G, N456E, F512Y) disclosed in WO 2012/044915; Aspergillus fumigatus Cel7A CBH1 disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 6 in WO2011/057140 (SEQ ID NO: 4 herein) and Aspergillus fumigatus CBH II disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 18 in WO 2011/057140 (SEQ ID NO: 5 herein).
  • AA9 G9
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation may further be supplemented with 10% hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation comprising a cellulolytic enzyme preparation from Trichoderma reesei further comprising Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase (WO 2006/078256) (SEQ ID NO: 6 herein) and Aspergillus fumigatus beta-xylosidase (WO 2011/041397) (SEQ ID NO: 7 herein).
  • hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation comprising a cellulolytic enzyme preparation from Trichoderma reesei further comprising Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase (WO 2006/078256) (SEQ ID NO: 6 herein) and Aspergillus fumigatus beta-xylosidase (WO 2011/041397) (SEQ ID NO: 7 herein).
  • the enzyme(s) may be added prior to or during hydrolysis, hydrolysis and fermentation, or fermentation.
  • One or more (e.g., several) components of the enzyme composition may be native proteins, recombinant proteins, or a combination of native proteins and recombinant proteins.
  • one or more (e.g., several) components may be native proteins of a cell, which is used as a host cell to express recombinantly one or more (e.g., several) other components of the enzyme composition.
  • the recombinant proteins may be heterologous (e.g., foreign) and/or native to the host cell.
  • One or more (e.g., several) components of the enzyme composition may be produced as monocomponents, which are then combined to form the enzyme composition.
  • the enzyme composition may be a combination of multicomponent and monocomponent protein preparations.
  • the enzymes used in the processes of the present invention may be in any form suitable for use, such as, for example, a fermentation broth formulation or a cell composition, a cell lysate with or without cellular debris, a semi-purified or purified enzyme preparation, or a host cell as a source of the enzymes.
  • the enzyme composition may be a dry powder or granulate, a non-dusting granulate, a liquid, a stabilized liquid, or a stabilized protected enzyme.
  • Liquid enzyme preparations may, for instance, be stabilized by adding stabilizers such as a sugar, a sugar alcohol or another polyol, and/or lactic acid or another organic acid according to established processes.
  • the optimum amounts of the enzymes and polypeptides depend on several factors including, but not limited to, the mixture of cellulolytic enzymes and/or hemicellulolytic enzymes, the cellulosic material, the concentration of cellulosic material, the pretreatment of the cellulosic material, temperature, time, pH, and inclusion of a fermenting organism (e.g., for Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation).
  • an effective amount of cellulolytic or hemicellulolytic enzyme to the cellulosic material is about 0.5 to about 50 mg, e.g., about 0.5 to about 40 mg, about 0.5 to about 25 mg, about 0.75 to about 20 mg, about 0.75 to about 15 mg, about 0.5 to about 10 mg, or about 2.5 to about 10 mg per g of the cellulosic material.
  • polypeptides having cellulolytic enzyme activity or hemicellulolytic enzyme activity as well as other proteins/polypeptides useful in the degradation of the cellulosic material may be derived or obtained from any suitable origin, including, archaeal, bacterial, fungal, yeast, plant, or animal origin.
  • the term “obtained” also means herein that the enzyme may have been produced recombinantly in a host organism employing methods described herein, wherein the recombinantly produced enzyme is either native or foreign to the host organism or has a modified amino acid sequence, e.g., having one or more (e.g., several) amino acids that are deleted, inserted and/or substituted, i.e., a recombinantly produced enzyme that is a mutant and/or a fragment of a native amino acid sequence or an enzyme produced by nucleic acid shuffling processes known in the art.
  • a native enzyme are natural variants and within the meaning of a foreign enzyme are variants obtained by, e.g., site-directed mutagenesis or shuffling.
  • Each polypeptide may be a bacterial polypeptide.
  • each polypeptide may be a Gram-positive bacterial polypeptide having enzyme activity, or a Gram-negative bacterial polypeptide having enzyme activity.
  • Each polypeptide may also be a fungal polypeptide, e.g., a yeast polypeptide or a filamentous fungal polypeptide.
  • Chemically modified or protein engineered mutants of polypeptides may also be used.
  • One or more (e.g., several) components of the enzyme composition may be a recombinant component, i.e., produced by cloning of a DNA sequence encoding the single component and subsequent cell transformed with the DNA sequence and expressed in a host (see, for example, WO 91/17243 and WO 91/17244).
  • the host may be a heterologous host (enzyme is foreign to host), but the host may under certain conditions also be a homologous host (enzyme is native to host).
  • Monocomponent cellulolytic proteins may also be prepared by purifying such a protein from a fermentation broth.
  • the one or more (e.g., several) cellulolytic enzymes comprise a commercial cellulolytic enzyme preparation.
  • commercial cellulolytic enzyme preparations suitable for use in the present invention include, for example, CELLIC® CTec (Novozymes A/S), CELLIC® CTec2 (Novozymes A/S), CELLIC® CTec3 (Novozymes A/S), CELLUCLAST® (Novozymes A/S), NOVOZYM® 188 (Novozymes A/S), SPEZYME® CP (Genencor Int.), ACCELLERASE® TRIO (Danisco US Inc.), FILTRASETM NL (DSM); METHAPLUS® S/L 100 (DSM), ROHAMENT® 7069 W (Röhm GmbH), or ALTERNAFUEL® CMAX3 (Dyadic International, Inc.).
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation is added in an amount effective from about 0.001 to about 5.0 wt. % of solids, e.g., about 0.025 to about 4.0 wt. % of solids or about 0.005 to about 2.0 wt. % of solids.
  • bacterial endoglucanases examples include, but are not limited to, Acidothermus cellulolyticus endoglucanase (WO 91/05039; WO 93/15186; U.S. Pat. No. 5,275,944; WO 96/02551; U.S. Pat. No.
  • fungal endoglucanases examples include, but are not limited to, Trichoderma reesei endoglucanase I (Penttila et al., 1986 , Gene 45: 253-263, Trichoderma reesei Cel7B endoglucanase I (GenBank:M15665), Trichoderma reesei endoglucanase II (Saloheimo et al., 1988 , Gene 63:11-22), Trichoderma reesei Cel5A endoglucanase II (GenBank:M19373), Trichoderma reesei endoglucanase III (Okada et al., 1988 , Appl.
  • thermoidea endoglucanase (GenBank:AB003107), Melanocarpus albomyces endoglucanase (GenBank:MAL515703), Neurospora crassa endoglucanase (GenBank:XM_324477), Humicola insolens endoglucanase V, Myceliophthora thermophila CBS 117.65 endoglucanase, Thermoascus aurantiacus endoglucanase I (GenBank:AF487830) and Trichoderma reesei strain No. VTT-D-80133 endoglucanase (GenBank:M15665).
  • cellobiohydrolases useful in the present invention include, but are not limited to, Aspergillus aculeatus cellobiohydrolase II (WO 2011/059740), Chaetomium thermophilum cellobiohydrolase I, Chaetomium thermophilum cellobiohydrolase II, Humicola insolens cellobiohydrolase I, Myceliophthora thermophila cellobiohydrolase II (WO 2009/042871), Penicillium occitanis cellobiohydrolase I (GenBank:AY690482), Talaromyces emersonii cellobiohydrolase I (Gen Bank:AF439936), Thielavia hyrcanie cellobiohydrolase II (WO 2010/141325), Thielavia terrestris cellobiohydrolase II (CEL6A, WO 2006/074435), Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase I, Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase II
  • beta-glucosidases useful in the present invention include, but are not limited to, beta-glucosidases from Aspergillus aculeatus (Kawaguchi et al., 1996 , Gene 173: 287-288), Aspergillus fumigatus (WO 2005/047499), Aspergillus niger (Dan et al., 2000 , J. Biol. Chem.
  • any AA9 polypeptide may be used as a component of the enzyme composition.
  • AA9 polypeptides useful in the processes of the present invention include, but are not limited to, AA9 polypeptides from Thielavia terrestris (WO 2005/074647, WO 2008/148131, and WO 2011/035027), Thermoascus aurantiacus (WO 2005/074656 and WO 2010/065830), Trichoderma reesei (WO 2007/089290), Myceliophthora thermophila (WO 2009/085935, WO 2009/085859, WO 2009/085864, and WO 2009/085868), Aspergillus fumigatus (WO 2010/138754), Penicillium pinophilum (WO 2011/005867), Thermoascus sp.
  • the AA9 polypeptide is used in the presence of a soluble activating divalent metal cation according to WO 2008/151043, e.g., manganese or copper.
  • the AA9 polypeptide is used in the presence of a dioxy compound, a bicylic compound, a heterocyclic compound, a nitrogen-containing compound, a quinone compound, a sulfur-containing compound, or a liquor obtained from a pretreated cellulosic material such as pretreated corn stover (WO 2012/021394, WO 2012/021395, WO 2012/021396, WO 2012/021399, WO 2012/021400, WO 2012/021401, WO 2012/021408, and WO 2012/021410).
  • a pretreated cellulosic material such as pretreated corn stover
  • such a compound is added at a molar ratio of the compound to glucosyl units of cellulose of about 10 ⁇ 6 to about 10, e.g., about 10 ⁇ 6 to about 7.5, about 10 ⁇ 6 to about 5, about 10 ⁇ 6 to about 2.5, about 10 ⁇ 6 to about 1, about 10 ⁇ 5 to about 1, about 10 ⁇ 5 to about 10 ⁇ 1 , about 10 ⁇ 4 to about 10 ⁇ 1 , about 10 ⁇ 3 to about 10 ⁇ 1 , or about 10 ⁇ 3 to about 10 ⁇ 2 .
  • an effective amount of such a compound is about 0.1 ⁇ M to about 1 M, e.g., about 0.5 ⁇ M to about 0.75 M, about 0.75 ⁇ M to about 0.5 M, about 1 ⁇ M to about 0.25 M, about 1 ⁇ M to about 0.1 M, about 5 ⁇ M to about 50 mM, about 10 ⁇ M to about 25 mM, about 50 ⁇ M to about 25 mM, about 10 ⁇ M to about 10 mM, about 5 ⁇ M to about 5 mM, or about 0.1 mM to about 1 mM.
  • the one or more (e.g., several) hemicellulolytic enzymes comprise a commercial hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation.
  • commercial hemicellulolytic enzyme preparations suitable for use in the present invention include, for example, SHEARZYMETM (Novozymes A/S), CELLIC® HTec (Novozymes A/S), CELLIC® HTec2 (Novozymes A/S), CELLIC® HTec3 (Novozymes A/S), VISCOZYME® (Novozymes A/S), ULTRAFLO® (Novozymes A/S), PULPZYME® HC (Novozymes A/S), MULTIFECT® Xylanase (Genencor), ACCELLERASE® XY (Genencor), ACCELLERASE® XC (Genencor), ECOPULP® TX-200A (AB Enzymes), HSP 6000 Xylanase (DSM), DEPOLTM
  • Aspergillus aculeatus GeneSeqP:AAR63790; WO 94/21785
  • Aspergillus fumigatus WO 2006/078256
  • Penicillium pinophilum WO 2011/041405
  • beta-xylosidases useful in the processes of the present invention include, but are not limited to, beta-xylosidases from Neurospora crassa (SwissProt:Q7SOW4), Trichoderma reesei (UniProtKB/TrEMBL:Q92458), Talaromyces emersonii (SwissProt:Q8X212), and Talaromyces thermophilus GH11 (WO 2012/13095).
  • acetylxylan esterases useful in the processes of the present invention include, but are not limited to, acetylxylan esterases from Aspergillus aculeatus (WO 2010/108918), Chaetomium globosum (UniProt:Q2GWX4), Chaetomium gracile (GeneSeqP:AAB82124), Humicola insolens DSM 1800 (WO 2009/073709), Hypocrea jecorina (WO 2005/001036), Myceliophtera thermophila (WO 2010/014880), Neurospora crassa (UniProt:q7s259), Phaeosphaeria nodorum (UniProt:QOUHJ1), and Thielavia terrestris NRRL 8126 (WO 2009/042846).
  • feruloyl esterases form Humicola insolens DSM 1800 (WO 2009/076122), Neosartorya fischeri (UniProt:A1 D9T4), Neurospora crassa (UniProt:Q9HGR3), Penicillium aurantiogriseum (WO 2009/127729), and Thielavia terrestris (WO 2010/053838 and WO 2010/065448).
  • arabinofuranosidases useful in the processes of the present invention include, but are not limited to, arabinofuranosidases from Aspergillus niger (GeneSeqP:AAR94170), Humicola insolens DSM 1800 (WO 2006/114094 and WO 2009/073383), and M. giganteus (WO 2006/114094).
  • alpha-glucuronidases useful in the processes of the present invention include, but are not limited to, alpha-glucuronidases from Aspergillus clavatus (UniProt:alcc12), Aspergillus fumigatus (SwissProt:Q4WW45), Aspergillus niger (UniProt:Q96WX9), Aspergillus terreus (SwissProt:Q0CJP9), Humicola insolens (WO 2010/014706), Penicillium aurantiogriseum (WO 2009/068565), Talaromyces emersonii (UniProt:Q8X211), and Trichoderma reesei (UniProt:Q99024).
  • alpha-glucuronidases from Aspergillus clavatus (UniProt:alcc12), Aspergillus fumigatus (SwissProt:Q4WW45), Asperg
  • polypeptides having enzyme activity used in the processes of the present invention may be produced by fermentation of the above-noted microbial strains on a nutrient medium containing suitable carbon and nitrogen sources and inorganic salts, using procedures known in the art (see, e.g., Bennett, J. W. and LaSure, L. (eds.), More Gene Manipulations in Fungi , Academic Press, CA, 1991). Suitable media are available from commercial suppliers or may be prepared according to published compositions (e.g., in catalogues of the American Type Culture Collection). Temperature ranges and other conditions suitable for growth and enzyme production are known in the art (see, e.g., Bailey, J. E., and Ollis, D. F., Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals , McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY, 1986).
  • the fermentation may be any method of cultivation of a cell resulting in the expression or isolation of an enzyme or protein. Fermentation may, therefore, be understood as comprising shake flask cultivation, or small-scale or large-scale fermentation (including continuous, batch, fed-batch, or solid state fermentations) in laboratory or industrial fermentors performed in a suitable medium and under conditions allowing the enzyme to be expressed or isolated.
  • the resulting enzymes produced by the methods described above may be recovered from the fermentation medium and purified by conventional procedures.
  • the invention relates to processes for producing a fermentation product from pretreated lignocellulose-containing material, the process comprising:
  • the preconditioning comprises incubating the pretreated lignocellulose-containing material with a combination of a phenol oxidizing enzyme and a glycosidase.
  • a phenol oxidizing enzyme is a laccase, such as one from Myceliophthora thermophila (MtL) (WO 95/33836 (SEQ ID NO: 1 herein) and the glycosidase is a beta-glucosidase or a beta-glucosidase containing enzyme preparation.
  • preconditioning step (i) is carried out in accordance with preconditioning processes described herein.
  • the fermentation product produced is an alcohol (e.g., ethanol or butanol), an organic acid, a ketone, an amino acid, or a gas.
  • alcohol e.g., ethanol or butanol
  • the fermentation product is an alcohol (e.g., ethanol or butanol), an organic acid, a ketone, an amino acid, or a gas.
  • the fermentation product is ethanol.
  • the fermentation product is recovered after fermentation in step (iii). Processes described herein may result in an increased hydrolysis yield and/or increased rate of hydrolysis, compared to when no preconditioning is done. Also, processes described herein may result in an increased fermentation yield compared to when no preconditioning is done.
  • the fermentable sugars obtained from the hydrolyzed cellulosic material may be fermented by one or more (e.g., several) fermenting microorganisms capable of fermenting the sugars directly or indirectly into a desired fermentation product.
  • Fermentation refers to any fermentation process or any process comprising a fermentation step. Fermentation processes also include fermentation processes used in the consumable alcohol industry (e.g., beer and wine), dairy industry (e.g., fermented dairy products), leather industry, and tobacco industry. The fermentation conditions depend on the desired fermentation product and fermenting organism and may easily be determined by one skilled in the art.
  • sugars released from the cellulosic material as a result of the pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis steps, are fermented to a product, e.g., ethanol, by a fermenting organism, such as yeast.
  • Hydrolysis (saccharification) and fermentation may be separate or simultaneous.
  • Saccharification (hydrolysis) and fermentation, separate or simultaneous include, but are not limited to, separate saccharification (hydrolysis) and fermentation (SHF); simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF); simultaneous saccharification and cofermentation (SSCF); hybrid hydrolysis and fermentation (HHF); separate hydrolysis and co-fermentation (SHCF); hybrid hydrolysis and co-fermentation (HHCF); and direct microbial conversion (DMC).
  • SHF uses separate process steps to first saccharify (hydrolyze) cellulosic material to fermentable sugars, e.g., glucose, cellobiose, cellotriose, and pentose sugars, and then ferment the fermentable sugars to ethanol.
  • SSF the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulosic material and the fermentation of sugars to ethanol are combined in one step (Philippidis, G. P., 1996, Cellulose bioconversion technology, in Handbook on Bioethanol: Production and Utilization , Wyman, C. E., ed., Taylor & Francis, Washington, D.C., 179-212).
  • SSCF involves the cofermentation of multiple sugars (Sheehan, J., and Himmel, M., 1999, Enzymes, energy and the environment: A strategic perspective on the U.S. Department of Energy's research and development activities for bioethanol, Biotechnol. Prog. 15: 817-827).
  • HHF involves a separate hydrolysis step, and in addition a simultaneous saccharification and hydrolysis step, which may be carried out in the same reactor.
  • the steps in an HHF process may be carried out at different temperatures, i.e., high temperature enzymatic saccharification followed by SSF at a lower temperature that the fermentation strain can tolerate.
  • DMC combines all three processes (enzyme production, hydrolysis, and fermentation) in one or more (several) steps where the same organism is used to produce the enzymes for conversion of the cellulosic material to fermentable sugars and to convert the fermentable sugars into a final product (Lynd et al., 2002, Microbial cellulose utilization: Fundamentals and biotechnology, Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Reviews 66: 506-577). It is understood herein that any method known in the art comprising pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis (saccharification), fermentation, or a combination thereof, may be used in the practicing methods and processes of the present invention.
  • Any suitable hydrolyzed cellulosic material may be used in the fermentation step in practicing the present invention.
  • the material is generally selected based on economics, i.e., costs per equivalent sugar potential, and recalcitrance to enzymatic conversion.
  • fermentation medium is understood herein to refer to a medium before the fermenting microorganism(s) is (are) added, such as, a medium resulting from a saccharification process, as well as a medium used in a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation process (SSF).
  • SSF simultaneous saccharification and fermentation process
  • “Fermenting organism” or “fermenting microorganism” refers to any microorganism, including bacterial and fungal organisms, suitable for use in a desired fermentation process to produce a fermentation product.
  • the fermenting organism may be hexose (i.e., C 6 ) and/or pentose (C 5 ) fermenting organisms, or a combination thereof. Both hexose and pentose fermenting organisms are well known in the art.
  • Suitable fermenting organisms are able to ferment, i.e., convert, sugars, such as glucose, xylose, xylulose, arabinose, maltose, mannose, galactose, and/or oligosaccharides, directly or indirectly into the desired fermentation product.
  • sugars such as glucose, xylose, xylulose, arabinose, maltose, mannose, galactose, and/or oligosaccharides
  • Examples of fermenting microorganisms that can ferment C 6 sugars include bacterial and fungal organisms, such as yeast.
  • Yeast include strains of Candida, Kluyveromyces , and Saccharomyces , e.g., Candida sonorensis, Kluyveromyces marxianus , and Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
  • Preferred yeast includes strains of the Saccharomyces spp., preferably Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  • Examples of fermenting organisms that can ferment C 5 sugars include bacterial and fungal organisms, such as yeast.
  • Preferred C 5 fermenting yeast include strains of Pichia , preferably Pichia stipitis , such as Pichia stipitis CBS 5773; strains of Candida , preferably Candida boidinii, Candida brassicae, Candida sheatae, Candida diddensii, Candida pseudotropicalis , or Candida utilis .
  • Organisms not capable of fermenting pentose sugars, such as xylose and arabinose may be genetically modified to do so by methods known in the art.
  • Other fermenting organisms include strains of Bacillus , such as Bacillus coagulans; Candida , such as C. sonorensis, C. methanosorbosa, C. diddensiae, C. parapsilosis, C. naedodendra, C. blankii, C. entomophilia, C. brassicae, C. pseudotropicalis, C. boidinii, C. utilis , and C. scehatae; Clostridium , such as C. acetobutylicum, C. thermocellum , and C. phytofermentans; E. coli , especially E.
  • Geobacillus sp. Hansenula , such as Hansenula anomala
  • Klebsiella such as K. oxytoca
  • Kluyveromyces such as K. marxianus, K. lactis, K. thermotolerans , and K. fragilis
  • Schizosaccharomyces such as S. pombe
  • Thermoanaerobacter such as Thermoanaerobacter saccharolyticum
  • Zymomonas such as Zymomonas mobilis.
  • yeast suitable for ethanol production include, e.g., BIO-FERM® AFT and XR, ETHANOL RED® yeast, FALI®, FERMIOL®, GERT STRANDTM (Gert Strand AB, Sweden), SUPERSTARTTM and THERMOSACC® fresh yeast.
  • the fermenting organism has been genetically modified to provide the ability to ferment pentose sugars, such as xylose utilizing, arabinose utilizing, and xylose and arabinose co-utilizing microorganisms.
  • the fermenting organism is typically added to the degraded cellulosic material or hydrolysate and the fermentation is performed for about 8 to about 96 hours, such as about 24 to about 60 hours.
  • the temperature is typically between about 26° C. to about 60° C., in particular about 32° C. or 50° C., and at about pH 3 to about pH 8, such as around pH 4-5, 6, or 7.
  • the yeast and/or another microorganism are applied to the degraded cellulosic material and the fermentation is performed for about 12 to about 96 hours, such as typically 24-60 hours.
  • the temperature is preferably between about 20° C. to about 60° C., e.g., about 25° C. to about 50° C., about 32° C. to about 50° C., or about 32° C. to about 50° C.
  • the pH is generally from about pH 3 to about pH 7, e.g., about pH 4 to about pH 7.
  • some fermenting organisms, e.g., bacteria have higher fermentation temperature optima.
  • Yeast or another microorganism is preferably applied in amounts of approximately 10 5 to 10 12 , preferably from approximately 10 7 to 10 10 , especially approximately 2 ⁇ 10 8 viable cell count per ml of fermentation broth. Further guidance in respect of using yeast for fermentation may be found in, e.g., “The Alcohol Textbook” (Editors K. Jacques, T. P. Lyons and D. R. Kelsall, Nottingham University Press, United Kingdom 1999), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
  • the fermented slurry may be distilled to extract the ethanol.
  • the ethanol obtained according to processes of the invention may be used as, e.g., fuel ethanol, drinking ethanol, i.e., potable neutral spirits, or industrial ethanol.
  • a fermentation stimulator may be used in combination with any of the processes described herein to further improve the fermentation process, and in particular, the performance of the fermenting microorganism, such as, rate enhancement and ethanol yield.
  • a “fermentation stimulator” refers to stimulators for growth of the fermenting microorganisms, in particular, yeast.
  • Preferred fermentation stimulators for growth include vitamins and minerals. Examples of vitamins include multivitamins, biotin, pantothenate, nicotinic acid, meso-inositol, thiamine, pyridoxine, para-aminobenzoic acid, folic acid, riboflavin, and Vitamins A, B, C, D, and E.
  • minerals include minerals and mineral salts that can supply nutrients comprising P, K, Mg, S, Ca, Fe, Zn, Mn, and Cu.
  • a fermentation product may be any substance derived from the fermentation.
  • the fermentation product may be, without limitation, an alcohol (e.g., arabinitol, n-butanol, isobutanol, ethanol, glycerol, methanol, ethylene glycol, 1,3-propanediol [propylene glycol], butanediol, glycerin, sorbitol, and xylitol); an alkane (e.g., pentane, hexane, heptane, octane, nonane, decane, undecane, and dodecane), a cycloalkane (e.g., cyclopentane, cyclohexane, cycloheptane, and cyclooctane), an alkene (e.g., pentene, hexene, heptene, and octene); an amino acid (e.
  • the fermentation product is an alcohol.
  • alcohol encompasses a substance that contains one or more hydroxyl moieties.
  • the alcohol may be, but is not limited to, n-butanol, isobutanol, ethanol, methanol, arabinitol, butanediol, ethylene glycol, glycerin, glycerol, 1,3-propanediol, sorbitol, xylitol.
  • the fermentation product is an alkane.
  • the alkane may be an unbranched or a branched alkane.
  • the alkane may be, but is not limited to, pentane, hexane, heptane, octane, nonane, decane, undecane, or dodecane.
  • the fermentation product is a cycloalkane.
  • the cycloalkane may be, but is not limited to, cyclopentane, cyclohexane, cycloheptane, or cyclooctane.
  • the fermentation product is an alkene.
  • the alkene may be an unbranched or a branched alkene.
  • the alkene may be, but is not limited to, pentene, hexene, heptene, or octene.
  • the fermentation product is an amino acid.
  • the organic acid may be, but is not limited to, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glycine, lysine, serine, or threonine. See, for example, Richard and Margaritis, 2004 , Biotechnology and Bioengineering 87(4): 501-515.
  • the fermentation product is a gas.
  • the gas may be, but is not limited to, methane, H 2 , CO 2 , or CO. See, for example, Kataoka et al., 1997 , Water Science and Technology 36(6-7): 41-47; and Gunaseelan, 1997 , Biomass and Bioenergy 13(1-2): 83-114.
  • the fermentation product is isoprene.
  • the fermentation product is a ketone.
  • ketone encompasses a substance that contains one or more ketone moieties.
  • the ketone may be, but is not limited to, acetone.
  • the fermentation product is an organic acid.
  • the organic acid may be, but is not limited to, acetic acid, acetonic acid, adipic acid, ascorbic acid, citric acid, 2,5-diketo-D-gluconic acid, formic acid, fumaric acid, glucaric acid, gluconic acid, glucuronic acid, glutaric acid, 3-hydroxypropionic acid, itaconic acid, lactic acid, malic acid, malonic acid, oxalic acid, propionic acid, succinic acid, or xylonic acid. See, for example, Chen and Lee, 1997 , Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 63-65: 435-448.
  • the fermentation product is polyketide
  • the fermentation product(s) may be optionally recovered from the fermentation medium using any method known in the art including, but not limited to, chromatography, electrophoretic procedures, differential solubility, distillation, or extraction.
  • alcohol is separated from the fermented cellulosic material and purified by conventional methods of distillation. Ethanol with a purity of up to about 96 vol. % may be obtained, which may be used as, for example, fuel ethanol, drinking ethanol, i.e., potable neutral spirits, or industrial ethanol.
  • a phenol oxidizing enzyme present or added during preconditioning methods or processes according to embodiments of the invention may be any phenol oxidizing enzyme.
  • the phenol oxidizing enzyme may be of any origin, but preferably of fungal or bacterial origin.
  • the phenol oxidizing enzyme(s) may belong to any of the following EC classes including, but not limited to, Laccase (EC 1.10.3.2), Catechol oxidase (EC 1.10.3.1), o-Aminophenol oxidase (1.10.3.4); and Monophenol monooxygenase (1.14.18.1).
  • laccases are preferred.
  • a laccase may be present or added during preconditioning.
  • Laccases (EC 1.10.3.2.) are multi-copper-containing enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of phenolic compounds. Laccases are produced by plants, bacteria and also a wide variety of fungi, including Ascomycetes such as Aspergillus, Neurospora , and Podospora ; Deuteromycete including Botrytis , and Basidiomycetes such as Collybia, Fomes, Lentinus, Pleurotus, Trametes , and perfect forms of Rhizoctonia . A number of fungal laccases have been isolated. For example, Choi et al. ( Mol.
  • Plant - Microbe Interactions 5: 119-128, 1992 describe the molecular characterization and cloning of the gene encoding the laccase of the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica .
  • Kojima et al. J. Biol. Chem. 265: 15224-15230, 1990; JP 2-238885 provide a description of two allelic forms of the laccase of the white-rot basidiomycete Coriolus hirsutus .
  • Germann and Lerch Experientia 41: 801, 1985 ; PNAS USA 83: 8854-8858, 1986
  • Saloheimo et al. J. Gen. Microbiol. 137: 1537-1544, 1985; WO 92/01046) have disclosed a structural analysis of the laccase gene from the fungus Phlebia radiata.
  • laccases include those derived from a strain of Polyporus , preferably Polyporus pinsitus; Melanocarpus , preferably Melanocarpus albomyces; Myceliophtora , preferably Myceliophtora thermophila; Coprinus , preferably Coprinus cinereus; Rhizoctonia , preferably Rhizoctonia solani or Rhizoctonia praticola; Scytalidium , preferably Scytalidium thermophilum; Pyricularia , preferably Pyricularia oryzae.
  • the laccase is derived from the tree Rhus vernicifera (Yoshida, 1883, Chemistry of Lacquer (Urushi) part 1 . J. Chem. Soc. 43, 472-486).
  • the laccase is derived from Polyporus pinsitus , e.g., the one described in WO 96/00290 (Novozymes).
  • laccases include the one derived from Pyricularia oryzae concerned in, e.g., Muralikrishna et al., 1995 , Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61(12): 4374-4377) or the laccase disclosed in Abstract of Papers American Chemical Society vol. 209, no. 1-2, 1995 derived from a Scytalidium thermophilum.
  • the laccase may also be one derived from Coprinus cinereus , e.g., the one concerned in Schneider et al., 1999 , Enzyme and Microbial Technology 25: 502-508.
  • laccases include those derived from Rhizoctonia solani concerned in Waleithner et al., 1996 , Curr. Genet. 29: 395-403, or derived from Melanocarpus albomyces concerned in Kiiskinen et al., 2004 , Microbiology 150: 3065-3074.
  • Suitable bacterial laccase include those derived from Streptomyces coelicolor , e.g., disclosed by Machczynski et al., 2004 , Protein Science 13: 2388-2397.
  • the laccase is derived from Myceliopthora thermophila , e.g., the laccase described in WO 95/33836 as SEQ ID NO: 2 (SEQ ID NO: 1 herein).
  • the laccase is provided in liquid, granular or powdered form.
  • Contemplated laccases also include those comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 60%, at least 70% at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95% identity, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 2 of described in WO 95/33836.
  • a glucoamylase may be present or added during preconditioning or hydrolysis.
  • a glucoamylase (glucan 1,4- ⁇ -glucosidase, EC 3.2.1.3) may be derived from any suitable source, e.g., derived from a microorganism or a plant.
  • Preferred glucoamylases are of fungal or bacterial origin, selected from the group consisting of Aspergillus glucoamylases, in particular Aspergillus niger G1 or G2 glucoamylase (Boel et al., 1984 , EMBO J.
  • glucoamylases include Athelia rolfsii (previously denoted Corticium rolfsii ) glucoamylase (see U.S. Pat. No. 4,727,026 and Nagasaka et al., 1998 , Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 50: 323-330), Talaromyces glucoamylases, in particular derived from Talaromyces duponti, Talaromyces emersonii (WO 99/28448), Talaromyces leycettanus (U.S. Pat. No. Re. 32,153), and Talaromyces thermophilus (U.S. Pat. No. 4,587,215).
  • Bacterial glucoamylases include glucoamylases from Clostridium , in particular C. thermoamylolyticum (EP 135138) and C. thermohydrosulfuricum (WO 86/01831), Trametes cingulata, Pachykytospora papyracea , and Leucopaxillus giganteus , all disclosed in WO 2006/069289; or Peniophora rufomarginata disclosed in PCT/US2007/066618; or a mixture thereof.
  • a hybrid glucoamylase may be used in the present invention. Examples of hybrid glucoamylases are disclosed in WO 2005/045018. Specific examples include the hybrid glucoamylase disclosed in Tables 1 and 4 of Example 1 (which hybrids are hereby incorporated by reference).
  • a glucoamylase may be one having a high degree of sequence identity to any of above mentioned glucoamylases, i.e., at least 60%, at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99% or even 100% identity to the mature enzyme sequences described herein.
  • a glucoamylase may further comprise a blend of glucoamylases and/or additional amylases and may further comprise variants or fragments of glucoamylases.
  • the glucoamylase is a blend comprising Talaromyces emersonii glucoamylase, disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 34 in WO99/28448, Trametes cingulata glucoamylase, disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 06/69289, and Rhizomucor pusillus alpha-amylase with Aspergillus niger glucoamylase linker and starch binding domain (SBD), disclosed as V039 in Table 5 in WO 2006/069290 as side activity (activity ratio in AGU:AGU:FAU-F is about 20:5:1).
  • Glucoamylase activity may be measured in AGU (Glucoamylase Unit).
  • AGU Glucoamylase Unit
  • 1 AFU is defined as the amount of enzyme, which hydrolyzes 1 micromole maltose per minute under the standard conditions 37° C., pH 4.3, substrate: maltose 23.2 mM, buffer: acetate 0.1 M, reaction time 5 minutes.
  • An autoanalyzer system may be used. Mutarotase is added to the glucose dehydrogenase reagent so that any alpha-D-glucose present is turned into beta-D-glucose. Glucose dehydrogenase reacts specifically with beta-D-glucose in the reaction mentioned above, forming NADH which is determined using a photometer at 340 nm as a measure of the original glucose concentration.
  • glucoamylase compositions include AMG 200L; AMG 300L; SANTM SUPER, SANTM EXTRA L, SPIRIZYME® PLUS, SPIRIZYME® FUEL, SPIRIZYME® B4U, SPIRIZYME® ULTRATM, SPIRIZYME® EXCEL, SPIRIZYME® ACHIEVE and AMGTM E (from Novozymes A/S, Denmark); OPTIDEX® 300, GC480TM and GC147TM (from Danisco US Inc); AMIGASETM and AMIGASETM PLUS (from DSM); G-ZYME® G900, G-ZYME® and G990 ZR (from Danisco US Inc.).
  • Glucoamylases are preferably added in a concentration between 0.01 and 20 mg EP/g cellulose, such as 0.1-1 mg EP/g cellulose.
  • an alpha-amylase may be present or added during preconditioning or hydrolysis.
  • any alpha-amylase may be used, such as of fungal, bacterial or plant origin.
  • the alpha-amylase is an acid alpha-amylase, e.g., acid fungal or acid bacterial alpha-amylase.
  • the alpha-amylase is an acid alpha-amylase.
  • the term “acid alpha-amylase” means an alpha-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) which added in an effective amount has activity optimum at a pH in the range of 3 to 7, preferably from 3.5 to 6, or more preferably from 4-5.
  • the alpha-amylase is a fungal alpha-amylase, such as an acid fungal alpha-amylase.
  • Fungal alpha-amylases include alpha-amylases derived from a strain of Aspergillus , such as, Aspergillus kawachii, Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus oryzae alpha-amylases.
  • a preferred acid fungal alpha-amylase is an alpha-amylase which exhibits a high identity, i.e., at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99% or even 100% identity to the mature part of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 10 in WO 96/23874.
  • Another preferred acid alpha-amylase is derived from a strain of Aspergillus niger .
  • the acid fungal alpha-amylase is an Aspergillus niger alpha-amylase disclosed as “AMYA_ASPNG” in the Swiss-prot/TeEMBL database under the primary accession no. P56271 and described in WO 89/01969 (Example 3—incorporated by reference).
  • a commercially available acid fungal alpha-amylase derived from Aspergillus niger is SP288 (available from Novozymes A/S, Denmark).
  • wild-type alpha-amylases include those derived from a strain of Meripilus and Rhizomucor , preferably a strain of Meripilus giganteus or Rhizomucor pusillus (WO 2004/055178 which is incorporated herein by reference).
  • the alpha-amylase is derived from Aspergillus kawachii (Kaneko et al., 1996 , J. Ferment. Bioeng. 81: 292-298, “Molecular-cloning and determination of the nucleotide-sequence of a gene encoding an acid-stable alpha-amylase from Aspergillus kawachii ”; and further as EMBL: #AB008370).
  • the fungal alpha-amylase may also be a wild-type enzyme comprising a starch-binding domain (SBD) and an alpha-amylase catalytic domain, or a variant thereof.
  • SBD starch-binding domain
  • alpha-amylase catalytic domain or a variant thereof.
  • the fungal acid alpha-amylase is a hybrid alpha-amylase.
  • Examples of fungal hybrid alpha-amylases include the ones disclosed in WO 2005/003311, U.S. Pat. No. 7,883,883 (Novozymes), and WO 2006/069290 (Novozymes), which are hereby incorporated by reference.
  • a hybrid alpha-amylase may comprise an alpha-amylase catalytic domain (CD) and a carbohydrate-binding domain/module (CBM), such as a starch binding domain (SBD), and optionally a linker.
  • CD alpha-amylase catalytic domain
  • CBM carbohydrate-binding domain/module
  • SBD starch binding domain
  • hybrid alpha-amylases include those disclosed in Tables 1 to 5 of the examples in WO 2006/069290 including the variant with the catalytic domain JA118 and Athelia rolfsii SBD (SEQ ID NO: 100 in WO 2006/069290), Rhizomucor pusillus alpha-amylase with Athelia rolfsii AMG linker and SBD (SEQ ID NO: 101 in WO 2006/069290), Rhizomucor pusillus alpha-amylase with Aspergillus niger glucoamylase linker and SBD (which is disclosed as V039 in Table 5 in WO 2006/069290), and Meripilus giganteus alpha-amylase with Athelia rolfsii glucoamylase linker and SBD (SEQ ID NO: 102 in WO 2006/069290).
  • Other hybrid alpha-amylases are listed in Tables 3, 4, 5, and 6 in Example 4 in WO 2006/069290 (
  • hybrid alpha-amylases include those disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 7,883,883, including those disclosed in Table 3 in col. 26, such as Aspergillus niger alpha-amylase with Aspergillus kawachii linker and starch binding domain.
  • alpha-amylases exhibit a high degree of sequence identity to any of above mentioned alpha-amylases, i.e., at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99% or even 100% identity to the mature enzyme sequences disclosed above.
  • Acid alpha-amylase activity may be measured in AFAU (Acid Fungal Alpha-amylase Units), which are determined relative to an enzyme standard. 1 AFAU is defined as the amount of enzyme which degrades 5.260 mg starch dry matter per hour under the below mentioned standard conditions.
  • Acid alpha-amylase an endo-alpha-amylase (1,4-alpha-D-glucan-glucanohydrolase, E.C. 3.2.1.1) hydrolyzes alpha-1,4-glucosidic bonds in the inner regions of the starch molecule to form dextrins and oligosaccharides with different chain lengths.
  • the intensity of color formed with iodine is directly proportional to the concentration of starch.
  • Amylase activity is determined using reverse colorimetry as a reduction in the concentration of starch under the specified analytical conditions.
  • the reaction conditions are substrate: Soluble starch, approx. 0.17 g/L, buffer: Citrate, approx. 0.03 M, 0.03 g/L iodine (I 2 ), 1.85 mM CaCl 2 , pH 2.50 ⁇ 0.05, incubation temperature 40° C., reaction time 23 seconds, wavelength 590 nm, enzyme concentration 0.025 AFAU/mL, enzyme working range 0.01-0.04 AFAU/mL.
  • FAU-F Fungal Alpha-Amylase Units (Fungamyl) is measured relative to an enzyme standard of a declared strength.
  • the reaction conditions are 37° C., pH 7.15, wavelength: 405 nm, reaction time 5 minutes, measuring time 2 minutes.
  • compositions comprising alpha-amylase include MYCOLASE® (DSM), BANTM, TERMAMYL® SC, FUNGAMYL®, LIQUOZYME® X, LIQUOZYME® SC and SANTM SUPER, SANTM EXTRA L (Novozymes A/S) and CLARASETM L-40,000, DEX-LOTM, SPEZYME® FRED, SPEZYME® AA, SPEZYME® DELTA AA, GC358, GC980, and SPEZYME® RSL (Danisco), and the acid fungal alpha-amylase sold under the trade name SP288 (available from Novozymes A/S, Denmark).
  • SP288 available from Novozymes A/S, Denmark
  • Alpha-amylase is preferably added in concentrations between 0.001 and 20 mg EP/g cellulose, such as 0.01-1 mg EP/g cellulose.
  • a hemicellulase may be present or added during preconditioning or hydrolysis (i.e., saccharification).
  • the hemicellulase may be any hemicellulase.
  • the hemicellulase may be in the form of a hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation.
  • the hemicellulase may be of any origin, but preferably of fungal or bacterial origin.
  • hemicellulase or “hemicellulolytic enzyme” means one or more (several) enzymes that hydrolyze a hemicellulosic material. See, for example, Shallom and Shoham, 2003, Microbial hemicellulases. Current Opinion In Microbiology, 6(3): 219-228. Hemicellulases are key components in the degradation of plant biomass.
  • hemicellulases include, but are not limited to, an acetylmannan esterase, an acetyxylan esterase, an arabinanase, an arabinofuranosidase, a coumaric acid esterase, a feruloyl esterase, a galactosidase, a glucuronidase, a glucuronoyl esterase, a mannanase, a mannosidase, a xylanase, and a xylosidase.
  • the catalytic modules of hemicellulases are either glycoside hydrolases (GHs) that hydrolyze glycosidic bonds, or carbohydrate esterases (CEs), which hydrolyze ester linkages of acetate or ferulic acid side groups.
  • GHs glycoside hydrolases
  • CEs carbohydrate esterases
  • These catalytic modules based on homology of their primary sequence, may be assigned into GH and CE families marked by numbers. Some families, with overall similar fold, may be further grouped into clans, marked alphabetically (e.g., GH-A). A most informative and updated classification of these and other carbohydrate active enzymes is available on the Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZy) database. Hemicellulolytic enzyme activities may be measured according to Ghose and Bisaria, 1987 , Pure & Appl. Chem. 59: 1739-1752.
  • the hemicellulase present or added during preconditioning and/or saccharification is a hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation.
  • the hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation is cellulolytic enzyme preparation from Trichoderma reesei , further comprising a xylanase and/or a beta-xylosidase.
  • the hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation is cellulolytic enzyme preparation from Trichoderma reesei , further comprising Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase (Xyl III in WO 2006/078256, SEQ ID NO: 6 herein) and Aspergillus fumigatus beta-xylosidase (WO 2011/057140, SEQ ID NO: 7 herein).
  • the hemicellulase or hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation may preferably be added in concentrations between 0.01 and 20 mg EP/g cellulose, such as 0.1-1 mg EP/g cellulose.
  • the hemicellulase is a xylanase or the hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a xylanase.
  • xylanase means a 1,4-beta-D-xylan-xylohydrolase (E.C. 3.2.1.8) that catalyzes the endohydrolysis of 1,4-beta-D-xylosidic linkages in xylans.
  • xylanase activity is determined with 0.2% AZCL-arabinoxylan as substrate in 0.01% TRITON® X-100 and 200 mM sodium phosphate buffer pH 6 at 37° C.
  • One unit of xylanase activity is defined as 1.0 ⁇ mole of azurine produced per minute at 37° C., pH 6 from 0.2% AZCL-arabinoxylan as substrate in 200 mM sodium phosphate pH 6 buffer.
  • xylanases examples include GH10 xylanases, such as one derived from a strain of the genus Aspergillus , such as a strain from Aspergillus fumigatus , such as the one disclosed as Xyl III in WO 2006/078256, or Aspergillus aculeatus , such as the one disclosed as Xyl II in WO 94/21785 (SEQ ID NO: 5 therein).
  • the xylanase may be comprised in a cellulolytic enzyme preparation which further includes a xylanase.
  • hemicellulase is a cellulolytic enzyme preparation further comprising a xylanase, preferably a GH10 xylanase, such as one derived from a strain of the genus Aspergillus , such as a strain from Aspergillus fumigatus , such as the one disclosed as Xyl III in WO 2006/078256, or Aspergillus aculeatus , such as the one disclosed as Xyl II in WO 94/21785.
  • Contemplated xylanases also include those comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 60%, at least 70%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95% identity, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99% identity to the Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase in WO 2006/078256, or the Aspergillus aculeatus xylanase disclosed as Xyl II in WO 94/21785.
  • the hemicellulase used in methods or processes of the invention is a beta-xylosidase, or the hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a beta-xylosidase.
  • beta-xylosidase means a beta-D-xyloside xylohydrolase (E.C. 3.2.1.37) that catalyzes the exo-hydrolysis of short beta (1 ⁇ 4)-xylooligosaccharides, to remove successive D-xylose residues from the non-reducing termini.
  • one unit of beta-xylosidase is defined as 1.0 ⁇ mole of p-nitrophenolate anion produced per minute at 40° C., pH 5 from 1 mM p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-xyloside as substrate in 100 mM sodium citrate containing 0.01% TWEEN® 20.
  • beta-xylosidase examples include those derived from a strain of the genus Aspergillus , such as a strain of Aspergillus fumigatus , such as the one disclosed in WO 2013/028928 (Example 16 and 17), or derived from a strain of Trichoderma , such as a strain of Trichoderma reesei , such as the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 58 in WO 2011/057140.
  • the beta-xylosidase used during preconditioning may be comprised in a cellulolytic enzyme preparation.
  • the hemicellulase is a cellulolytic enzyme preparation further comprising a beta-xylosidase, such as one derived from a strain of the genus Aspergillus , such as a strain of Aspergillus fumigatus (e.g., one disclosed in WO 2011/057140), such as one disclosed in WO 2013/028928 (Examples 16 and 17), or derived from a strain of Trichoderma , such as a strain of Trichoderma reesei , such as the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 58 in WO 2011/057140.
  • a beta-xylosidase such as one derived from a strain of the genus Aspergillus , such as a strain of Aspergillus fumigatus (e.g., one disclosed in WO 2011/057140
  • Contemplated beta-xylosidases also include those comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 60%, at least 70% at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95% identity, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99% identity to the Aspergillus fumigatus beta-xylosidase disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 206 in WO 2011/057140 or any of the beta-xylosidases mentioned herein.
  • the hemicellulase used for preconditioning is or may comprise a commercial hemicellulase product.
  • commercial hemicellulase products include, for example, SHEARZYMETM (Novozymes A/S), CELLIC® HTec (Novozymes A/S), CELLIC® HTec2 (Novozymes A/S), CELLIC® HTec3 (Novozymes), VISCOZYME® (Novozymes A/S), ULTRAFLO® (Novozymes A/S), PULPZYME® HC (Novozymes A/S), MULTIFECT® Xylanase (Danisco US Inc), ECOPULP® TX-200A (Roal Oy), HSP 6000 Xylanase (DSM), DEPOL® 333P (Biocatalysts Limit, Wales, UK), DEPOLTM 740L. (Biocatalysts Limit, Wales, UK), and DEPOL
  • a beta-glucosidase may be present or added during preconditioning or hydrolysis (i.e., saccharification).
  • the beta-glucosidase is an enzyme preparation with beta-glucosidase activity. Where the preparation exhibits beta-glucosidase activity, such activity may be the primary activity of the composition, or may be a lesser activity of the composition. In one embodiment the beta-glucosidase is comprised in an Aspergillus niger enzyme preparation comprising 57% glucoamylase, 27% beta-glucosidase and 16% alpha-amylase (protein content basis), where the preparation exhibits beta-glucosidase activity.
  • a cellulolytic enzyme preparation used according to the invention may in one embodiment comprise one or more beta-glucosidases.
  • the beta-glucosidase may in one embodiment be one derived from a strain of the genus Aspergillus , such as Aspergillus niger or Aspergillus oryzae , such as the one disclosed in WO 2002/095014 or the fusion protein having beta-glucosidase activity disclosed in WO 2008/057637, or Aspergillus fumigatus , such as such as one disclosed in WO 2005/047499 or an Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase variant, such as one disclosed in WO 2012/044915, such as one with the following substitutions: F100D, S283G, N456E, F512Y.
  • beta-glucosidase is derived from a strain of the genus Penicillium , such as a strain of the Penicillium brasilianum disclosed in WO 2007/019442, or a strain of the genus Trichoderma , such as a strain of Trichoderma reesei.
  • a beta-glucosidase comprising the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499;
  • a beta-glucosidase comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 70%, e.g., at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, or at least 99% sequence identity to the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499.
  • the beta-glucosidase is a variant comprises a substitution at one or more (several) positions corresponding to positions 100, 283, 456, and 512 of the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499, wherein the variant has beta-glucosidase activity.
  • the parent beta-glucosidase of the variant is (a) a polypeptide comprising the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499; (b) a polypeptide having at least 80% sequence identity to the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499 or (c) a fragment of the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499, which has beta-glucosidase activity.
  • the beta-glucosidase variant has at least 80%, e.g., at least 81%, at least 82%, at least 83%, at least 84%, at least 85%, at least 86%, at least 87%, at least 88%, at least 89%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, but less than 100% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of the parent beta-glucosidase.
  • the beta-glucosidase variant has at least 80%, e.g., at least 81%, at least 82%, at least 83%, at least 84%, at least 85%, at least 86%, at least 87%, at least 88%, at least 89%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, but less than 100% sequence identity to the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499.
  • the beta-glucosidase is from a strain of Aspergillus , such as a strain of Aspergillus fumigatus , such as Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499), which comprises one or more substitutions selected from the group consisting of L89M, G91L, F100D, I140V, I186V, S283G, N456E, and F512Y; such as a variant thereof with the following substitutions:
  • the number of substitutions is between 1 and 10, such 1 and 8, such as 1 and 6, such as 1 and 4, such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 substitutions.
  • the variant comprises a substitution at a position corresponding to position 100, a substitution at a position corresponding to position 283, a substitution at a position corresponding to position 456, and/or a substitution at a position corresponding to position 512.
  • beta-glucosidase variant comprises the following substitutions: Phe100Asp, Ser283Gly, Asn456Glu, Phe512Tyr in SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499 (described in WO 2012/044915).
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation used according to an embodiment of the invention may comprise one or more AA9 (GH61) polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity.
  • the enzyme composition comprises an AA9 (GH61) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, such as one derived from the genus Thermoascus , such as a strain of Thermoascus aurantiacus , such as the one described in WO 2005/074656 as SEQ ID NO: 2; or one derived from the genus Thielavia , such as a strain of Thielavia terrestris , such as the one described in WO 2005/074647 as SEQ ID NO: 7 and SEQ ID NO: 8; or one derived from a strain of Aspergillus , such as a strain of Aspergillus fumigatus , such as the one described in WO 2010/138754 as SEQ ID NO: 2; or one derived from a strain derived from Pen
  • Penicillium sp. AA9 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity or a homolog thereof is selected from the group consisting of:
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation used according to an embodiment of the invention may comprise one or more CBH I (cellobiohydrolase I).
  • the cellulolytic composition comprises a cellobiohydrolase I (CBH I), such as one derived from a strain of the genus Aspergillus , such as a strain of Aspergillus fumigatus , such as the Cel7A CBHI disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 6 in WO 2011/057140, or a strain of the genus Trichoderma , such as a strain of Trichoderma reesei.
  • CBH I cellobiohydrolase I
  • a cellobiohydrolase I comprising the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 6 in WO 2011/057140;
  • a cellobiohydrolase I comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 60%, at least 70%, e.g., at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, or at least 99% sequence identity to the mature polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 6 in WO 2011/057140.
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation used according to an embodiment of the invention may comprise one or more CBH II (cellobiohydrolase II).
  • the cellobiohydrolase II CBHII
  • CBHII cellobiohydrolase II
  • a strain of the genus Aspergillus such as a strain of Aspergillus fumigatus , such as one described in WO2011/057140
  • a strain of the genus Trichoderma such as Trichoderma reesei
  • a strain of the genus Thielavia such as a strain of Thielavia terrestris
  • cellobiohydrolase II CEL6A from Thielavia terrestris.
  • a cellobiohydrolase II comprising the mature polypeptide of a CBHII described in WO2011/057140;
  • a cellobiohydrolase II comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 60%, at least 70%, e.g., at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, or at least 99% identity to the mature polypeptide of a CBHII described in WO2011/057140.
  • the term “endoglucanase” means an endo-1,4-(1,3;1,4)-beta-D-glucan 4-glucanohydrolase (E.C. 3.2.1.4), which catalyzes endohydrolysis of 1,4-beta-D-glycosidic linkages in cellulose, cellulose derivatives (such as carboxymethyl cellulose and hydroxyethyl cellulose), lichenin, beta-1,4 bonds in mixed beta-1,3 glucans such as cereal beta-D-glucans or xyloglucans, and other plant material containing cellulosic components.
  • E.C. 3.2.1.4 endo-1,4-(1,3;1,4)-beta-D-glucan 4-glucanohydrolase
  • Endoglucanase activity may be determined by measuring reduction in substrate viscosity or increase in reducing ends determined by a reducing sugar assay (Zhang et al., 2006 , Biotechnology Advances 24: 452-481). For purposes of the present invention, endoglucanase activity is determined using carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) as substrate according to the procedure of Ghose, 1987 , Pure and Appl. Chem. 59: 257-268, at pH 5, 40° C.
  • CMC carboxymethyl cellulose
  • a cellulolytic enzyme preparation is present or added during hydrolysis (i.e., saccharification).
  • a cellulolytic enzyme preparation is a preparation containing one or more (e.g., several) enzymes that hydrolyze cellulosic material.
  • Such enzymes include endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, beta-glucosidase, or combinations thereof.
  • the two basic approaches for measuring cellulolytic activity include: (1) measuring the total cellulolytic activity, and (2) measuring the individual cellulolytic activities (endoglucanases, cellobiohydrolases, and beta-glucosidases) as reviewed in Zhang et al., Outlook for cellulase improvement: Screening and selection strategies, 2006 , Biotechnology Advances 24: 452-481.
  • Total cellulolytic activity is usually measured using insoluble substrates, including Whatman No 1 filter paper, microcrystalline cellulose, bacterial cellulose, algal cellulose, cotton, pretreated lignocellulose, etc.
  • the most common total cellulolytic activity assay is the filter paper assay using Whatman No 1 filter paper as the substrate.
  • the assay was established by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (Ghose, 1987, Measurement of cellulase activities, Pure Appl. Chem. 59: 257-68).
  • cellulolytic enzyme activity for, e.g., a cellulolytic enzyme preparation may be determined by measuring the increase in hydrolysis of a cellulosic material by cellulolytic enzyme(s) under the following conditions: 0.25-50 mg of cellulolytic enzyme protein/g of cellulose in PCS (or other pretreated cellulosic material) for 3-7 days at a suitable temperature, e.g., 50° C., 55° C., 60° C., or 65° C., compared to a control hydrolysis without addition of cellulolytic enzyme protein.
  • a suitable temperature e.g., 50° C., 55° C., 60° C., or 65° C.
  • Typical conditions are 1 ml reactions, washed or unwashed PCS, 5% insoluble solids, 50 mM sodium acetate pH 5, 1 mM MnSO 4 , 50° C., 55° C., 60° C., or 65° C., 72 hours, sugar analysis by AMINEX® HPX-87H column (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, Calif., USA).
  • a cellulolytic enzyme preparation used for hydrolysis (i.e., saccharification) in processes of the invention typically comprises one or more endoglucanases, cellobiohydrolases and/or beta-glucosidases.
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation is derived from a strain of Trichoderma , such as a strain of Trichoderma reesei ; a strain of Humicola , such as a strain of Humicola insolens , and/or a strain of Chrysosporium , such as a strain of Chrysosporium lucknowense .
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation is derived from a strain of Trichoderma reesei.
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation may further comprise one or more of the following polypeptides, such as enzymes: AA9 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, beta-glucosidase, xylanase, beta-xylosidase, CBHI, CBHII, or a mixture of two, three, four, five or six thereof.
  • the further polypeptide(s) e.g., AA9 polypeptide
  • enzyme(s) e.g., beta-glucosidase, xylanase, beta-xylosidase, CBH I and/or CBH II may be foreign to the cellulolytic enzyme preparation producing organism (e.g., Trichoderma reesei ).
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a AA9 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a beta-glucosidase.
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a AA9 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, a beta-glucosidase, and a CBHI.
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a AA9 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, a beta-glucosidase, a CBHI and a CBHII.
  • enzymes such as endoglucanases, may also be comprises in the cellulolytic enzyme preparation.
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation may comprise a number of difference polypeptides, including enzymes.
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a Trichoderma reesei cellulolytic preparation, further comprising Thermoascus aurantiacus AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity (WO 2005/074656), and Aspergillus oryzae beta-glucosidase fusion protein (WO 2008/057637).
  • G61A Thermoascus aurantiacus AA9
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a Trichoderma reesei cellulolytic enzyme preparation, further comprising Thermoascus aurantiacus AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity (SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 2005/074656), and Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499).
  • G61A Thermoascus aurantiacus AA9
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a Trichoderma reesei cellulolytic enzyme preparation further comprising Penicillium emersonii AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity disclosed in WO 2011/041397, and Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499).
  • G61A Penicillium emersonii AA9
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a Trichoderma reesei cellulolytic enzyme preparation further comprising Penicillium emersonii AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity disclosed in WO 2011/041397, and Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499) or variant disclosed in WO 2012/044915 (hereby incorporated by reference), the following substitutions: F100D, S283G, N456E, F512Y.
  • G61A Penicillium emersonii AA9
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation is derived from Trichoderma reesei further comprising a AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity derived from a strain of Penicillium emersonii (SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 2011/041397), Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 2005/047499) variant F100D, S283G, N456E, F512Y) disclosed in WO 2012/044915; Aspergillus fumigatus Cel7A CBH1 disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 6 in WO2011/057140 and Aspergillus fumigatus CBH II disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 18 in WO 2011/057140.
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation from Trichoderma reesei further comprises a hemicellulase or hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation, such as an Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase (WO 2006/078256) and Aspergillus fumigatus beta-xylosidase (WO 2011/057140).
  • a hemicellulase or hemicellulolytic enzyme preparation such as an Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase (WO 2006/078256) and Aspergillus fumigatus beta-xylosidase (WO 2011/057140).
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation also comprises a xylanase (e.g., derived from Aspergillus aculeatus or Aspergillus fumigatus ) and/or a beta-xylosidase (e.g., derived from Aspergillus fumigatus ).
  • a xylanase e.g., derived from Aspergillus aculeatus or Aspergillus fumigatus
  • beta-xylosidase e.g., derived from Aspergillus fumigatus
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a Trichoderma reesei cellulolytic preparation, further comprising Thermoascus aurantiacus AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity (WO 2005/074656), Aspergillus oryzae beta-glucosidase fusion protein (WO 2008/057637), and Aspergillus aculeatus xylanase (Xyl II in WO 94/21785).
  • G61A Thermoascus aurantiacus AA9
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a Trichoderma reesei cellulolytic preparation, further comprising Thermoascus aurantiacus AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity (SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 2005/074656), Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499) and Aspergillus aculeatus xylanase (Xyl II disclosed in WO 94/21785).
  • G61A Thermoascus aurantiacus AA9
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a Trichoderma reesei cellulolytic preparation further comprising Penicillium emersonii AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity disclosed in WO 2011/041397, Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499) and Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase (Xyl III in WO 2006/078256).
  • G61A Penicillium emersonii AA9
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a Trichoderma reesei cellulolytic preparation further comprising Penicillium emersonii AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity disclosed in WO 2011/041397, Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499), Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase (Xyl III in WO 2006/078256), and Cel7A CBH I from Aspergillus fumigatus disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 2011/057140.
  • G61A Penicillium emersonii AA9
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a Trichoderma reesei cellulolytic preparation further comprising Penicillium emersonii AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity disclosed in WO 2011/041397, Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499), Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase (Xyl III in WO 2006/078256), Cel7A CBH I from Aspergillus fumigatus disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 2011/057140, and CBH II derived from Aspergillus fumigatus disclosed in WO 2013/028928.
  • G61A Penicillium emersonii AA9
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises a Trichoderma reesei cellulolytic preparation further comprising Penicillium emersonii AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity disclosed in WO 2011/041397, Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 of WO 2005/047499) or variant with the following substitutions: F100D, S283G, N456E, F512Y; Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase (Xyl III in WO 2006/078256), Cel7A CBH I from Aspergillus fumigatus disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 2011/057140, and CBH II derived from Aspergillus fumigatus disclosed in WO 2013/028928.
  • G61A Penicillium emersonii AA9
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation comprises or may further comprise one or more (several) proteins selected from the group consisting of a cellulase, an AA9 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, a hemicellulase, an expansin, an esterase, a laccase, a ligninolytic enzyme, a pectinase, a peroxidase, a protease, and a swollenin.
  • everal proteins selected from the group consisting of a cellulase, an AA9 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, a hemicellulase, an expansin, an esterase, a laccase, a ligninolytic enzyme, a pectinase, a peroxidase, a protease, and a swollenin.
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation is or comprises a commercial cellulolytic enzyme preparation.
  • Examples of commercial cellulolytic enzyme preparations suitable for use in the present invention include, for example, CELLIC® CTec (Novozymes A/S), CELLIC® CTec2 (Novozymes A/S), CELLIC® Ctec3 (Novozymes A/S), CELLUCLAST® (Novozymes A/S), CELLUZYMETM (Novozymes A/S), CEREFLO® (Novo Nordisk A/S), and ULTRAFLO® (Novozymes A/S), ACCELLERASE® (Danisco US Inc.), LAMINEX® (Danisco US Inc.), SPEZYME® CP (Danisco US Inc.), ROHAMENT® 7069 W (Röhm GmbH), FIBREZYME® LDI (Dyadic International, Inc.), FIBREZYME® LBR (Dyadic International, Inc.), or VISCOSTARTM 150L (Dyadic International, Inc.).
  • CELLIC® CTec Novozymes
  • the cellulolytic enzyme preparation may be present or added during hydrolysis (i.e., saccharification) in amounts effective from about 0.001 to about 5.0 wt % of solids (TS), more preferably from about 0.025 to about 4.0 wt % of solids, and most preferably from about 0.005 to about 2.0 wt % of solids (TS).
  • hydrolysis i.e., saccharification
  • Laccase derived from Myceliophthora thermophila disclosed in WO 95/33836 as SEQ ID NO: 2 (SEQ ID NO: 1 herein) and available from Novozymes A/S, Denmark in liquid form (MtL).
  • Laccase derived from Myceliophthora thermophila disclosed in WO 95/33836 as SEQ ID NO: 2 (SEQ ID NO: 1 herein) and available from Novozymes A/S, Denmark in granular form (GrL), comprising laccase in an amount of about 1%, in combination with inert ingredients and a laccase stabilizer.
  • Beta-Glucosidase Preparation 188 (“BG188”):
  • Aspergillus niger enzyme preparation comprising about 57% glucoamylase, about 27% beta-glucosidase and about 16% alpha-amylase (protein content basis), exhibiting beta-glucosidase activity.
  • Cellulolytic enzyme preparation derived from Trichoderma reesei further comprising AA9 (GH61A) polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity derived from a strain of Penicillium emersonii (SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 2011/041397, SEQ ID NO: 3 herein), Aspergillus fumigatus beta-glucosidase (SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 2005/047499, SEQ ID NO: 2 herein) variant F100D, S283G, N456E, F512Y) disclosed in WO 2012/044915 ; Aspergillus fumigatus Cel7A CBH1 disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 6 in WO2011/057140 (SEQ ID NO: 4 herein) and Aspergillus fumigatus CBH II disclosed as SEQ ID NO: 18 in WO 2011/057140 (SEQ ID NO: 5 herein). Further, Cellulolytic Enzyme Preparation C3 further comprises about 10% Hemicellulo
  • H3 Hemicellulolytic Enzyme Preparation H3 (“H3”):
  • Cellulolytic enzyme preparation from Trichoderma reesei further comprising Aspergillus fumigatus xylanase (WO 2006/078256, SEQ ID NO: 6 herein) and Aspergillus fumigatus beta-xylosidase (WO 2011/057140, SEQ ID NO: 7 herein).
  • GENE Glucoamylase E
  • Glucoamylase blend comprising Talaromyces emersonii glucoamylase (SEQ ID NO: 34 in WO 99/28448 (SEQ ID NO: 8 herein)), Trametes cingulata glucoamylase (SEQ ID NO: 2 in WO 06/69289 (SEQ ID NO: 9 herein), and Rhizomucor pusillus alpha-amylase with Aspergillus niger glucoamylase linker and SBD (V039 in Table 5 in WO 2006/069290) (activity ratio in AGU:AGU:FAU-F is about 20:5:1).
  • the pH adjusted uwPCF was placed in 8 kettles (R1-R8). Each kettle containing pH adjusted uwPCF was brought to 50° C. in water bath and the agitation speed was increased to 450 rpm. All kettles were run at pH 5.0, 50° C. and 450 rpm for 3 hours. Enzymatic preconditioning (EPC) enzymes were added to all kettles except kettle R1, as set forth in Table 1 below, and the EPC process ran for 3 hours. Kettle R1 was run as a control at pH 5, 50° C., 450 rpm for 6 hours without addition of EPC enzymes.
  • EPC enzyme preconditioning
  • Kettle R5 had EPC enzyme laccase added after 3 hours and 2 hours later the agitation speed was reduced to 250 rpm and EPC enzyme beta-glucosidase (BG188) was added, versus adding the 2 EPC enzymes at the same time and co-incubating for the full 3 hours.
  • EPC enzyme laccase added after 3 hours and 2 hours later the agitation speed was reduced to 250 rpm and EPC enzyme beta-glucosidase (BG188) was added, versus adding the 2 EPC enzymes at the same time and co-incubating for the full 3 hours.
  • BG188 beta-glucosidase
  • Hydrolysis samples were analyzed for glucose, xylose, cellobiose, xylitol, glycerol, acetic acid, and ethanol.
  • Glucose was measured using an Agilent HPLC system with an analytical BIO-RAD Aminex HPX-87H column and a BIO-RAD Cation H refill guard column.
  • FIG. 1 Time course of glucose content is illustrated in FIG. 1 .
  • EPC with laccase and beta-glucosidase significantly improved enzymatic hydrolysis rate and final glucose concentration.
  • Dilute acid pretreated unwashed dry fractionated corn fiber was obtained as described in Example 1.
  • a volume of the pH adjusted uwPCF was added into a kettle reactor in order to reach a final TS of 10%.
  • 2.5 ml of 1 g/L penicillin and make up water were added into the kettle reactor and mixed well.
  • Enzymatic preconditioning was initiated by addition of 0.015 mg EP/g cell of Mt Laccase and 0.2 mg EP/g cell of BG188 into the well mixed kettle reactor. Preconditioning was conducted at 50° C. for 6 hours at a mixing speed of 250 rpm. As a control, the well mixed whole slurry was also preconditioned at 50° C. for 6 hours at a mixing speed of 250 rpm, but without any enzyme addition. After preconditioning, the pH was checked and adjusted, if needed.
  • Dilute acid pretreated unwashed dry fractionated corn fiber was obtained as described in Example 1.
  • a volume of the pH adjusted uwPCF was added into a kettle reactor in order to reach a final TS of 17%.
  • 2.5 ml of 1 g/L penicillin and make up water were added into the kettle reactor and mixed well.
  • Enzymatic preconditioning was initiated by addition of 0.015 mg EP/g cell of granular laccase (GrL) and 0.25 mg EP/g cell C3 into the well mixed kettle reactor. Preconditioning was conducted at 50° C. for 6 hours at a mixing speed of 250 rpm. As a control, the well mixed whole slurry was also preconditioned at 50° C. for 6 hours at a mixing speed of 250 rpm, but without any enzyme addition. After preconditioning, the pH was checked and adjusted, if needed.
  • Dilute acid pretreated unwashed dry fractionated corn fiber was obtained as described in Example 1.
  • a volume of the pH adjusted uwPCF was added into a kettle reactor in order to reach a final TS of 17%.
  • 2.5 ml of 1 g/L penicillin and make up water were added into the kettle reactor and mixed well.
  • Enzymatic preconditioning was initiated by addition of 0.015 mg EP/g cell of Mt Laccase and 0.0005% (v/v) of Glucoamylase E (GAE) into the well mixed kettle reactor. Preconditioning was conducted at 50° C. for 6 hours at a mixing speed of 250 rpm. As a control, the well mixed whole slurry was also preconditioned at 50° C. for 6 hours at a mixing speed of 250 rpm, but without any enzyme addition. After preconditioning, the pH was checked and adjusted, if needed.
  • the pH adjusted uwPCF was liquidated to rotisserie tube reactors and 0.1 ml of 1 g/L penicillin and make up water were added into the reactors and mixed well. Enzymes were added to the tubes, for evaluation as preconditioners, as follows:
  • PC550 control tube of liquidated substrate only, with no laccase added, served as a control. All tubes were preconditioned, with or without enzymes, for 16 hours in the rotisserie method.
  • Glucoamylase E glucoamylase

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