ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Quantitative Proteomics Analysis of Natural
Lignocelluloses Degraded by Aspergillus fumigatus
G-13 Based on iTRAQ
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College of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology,
Harbin 150040, China
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Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Technology of College of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin 150040, China
Submission date: 2019-12-22
Final revision date: 2020-02-25
Acceptance date: 2020-02-26
Online publication date: 2020-08-23
Publication date: 2020-10-05
Corresponding author
Hong Yan
Harbin University of Science and Technology, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2021;30(1):189-200
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ABSTRACT
Aspergillus fumigatus G-13 has a strong potential to degrade lignocellulose. The study identified
the secreted proteins of natural lignocellulosic substrates fermented by Aspergillus fumigatus G-13 by
iTRAQ, and performed bioinformatics analysis on the differential proteins obtained. The effects of
pretreatment on the production of ligninase and the degradation of natural lignocellulose by strains were
studied. The results showed that with Robinia as fermentation substrate, 897 differential proteins were
found before and after pretreatment, and the expression was up-regulated by 432 and the expression
was down-regulated by 465. Using walnut shell as fermentation substrate, there were 1122 differential
proteins, with 802 expressions up-regulated and 20 expressions down-regulated. The Gene Ontology
(GO) suggested that these differential proteins were mainly involved in transport activity, catalytic
activity and enzyme regulation activity. The pretreated natural lignocellulosic substrate was fermented
by Aspergillus fumigatus G-13, exhibited high lignin-degrading enzyme activity and high protein
expression. It is shown that pretreatment affects the metabolic pathways of the fungi cells, increases
the production of key enzymes, such as NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase, hyphae catalase CAT1,
flavin-binding monooxygenase, urinary acid-1,2-dioxygenase, catechol dioxygenase, glyoxalase, FDA
monooxygenase, fatty acid oxygenase, etc. Simultaneous pretreatment increases the methyl metabolism
capacity of the strain and stimulates the growth of the mycelium cells.