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. 2018 May 21;7(3):e00637. doi: 10.1002/mbo3.637

Schizophyllum commune: An unexploited source for lignocellulose degrading enzymes

Omar Eduardo Tovar‐Herrera 1, Adriana Mayrel Martha‐Paz 2, Yordanis Pérez‐LLano 3, Elisabet Aranda 4, Juan Enrique Tacoronte‐Morales 5, María Teresa Pedroso‐Cabrera 5, Katiushka Arévalo‐Niño 1, Jorge Luis Folch‐Mallol 3, Ramón Alberto Batista‐García 6,✉
PMCID: PMC6011954  PMID: 29785766

Abstract

Lignocellulose represents the most abundant source of carbon in the Earth. Thus, fraction technology of the biomass turns up as an emerging technology for the development of biorefineries. Saccharification and fermentation processes require the formulation of enzymatic cocktails or the development of microorganisms (naturally or genetically modified) with the appropriate toolbox to produce a cost‐effective fermentation technology. Therefore, the search for microorganisms capable of developing effective cellulose hydrolysis represents one of the main challenges in this era. Schizophyllum commune is an edible agarical with a great capability to secrete a myriad of hydrolytic enzymes such as xylanases and endoglucanases that are expressed in a high range of substrates. In addition, a large number of protein‐coding genes for glycoside hydrolases, oxidoreductases like laccases (Lacs; EC 1.10.3.2), as well as some sequences encoding for lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) and expansins‐like proteins demonstrate the potential of this fungus to be applied in different biotechnological process. In this review, we focus on the enzymatic toolbox of S. commune at the genetic, transcriptomic, and proteomic level, as well as the requirements to be employed for fermentable sugars production in biorefineries. At the end the trend of its use in patent registration is also reviewed.

Keywords: biorefinery, biotechnology, lignocellulolytic enzymes, lignocellulose, Schizophyllum commune

1. INTRODUCTION

In the past decade, the amount of research related to lignocellulosic ethanol (second generation ethanol) has increased extensively in the scientific community. Several bacteria and fungi species have been studied in terms of the intra and extracellular enzymatic complexes involved in the deconstruction of the polymeric components that make up the lignocellulosic biomass. On the other hand, every year a novel or modified pretreatment technology becomes available with the aim of improving yields during the saccharification of the lignocellulosic materials. However, we are still far away from producing economically competitive lignocellulosic bioethanol (Mohanram, Amat, Choudhary, Arora, & Nain, 2013), largely because the lack of microbial enzymatic cocktails that break down the recalcitrant lignocellulosic biomass in an efficient manner (Gupta, 2016). Since the amount of plant biomass has been estimated to be of 180 billions of tons only above the ground and near 40 millions tons in the ocean (Chen, 2014), the exploitation of these materials for production of biofuels and value‐added products is a great alternative to reduce the fossil fuels dependence that as a society we have.

This review focuses on the unexploited and enormous biotechnological potential of the basidiomycete fungus Schizophyllum commune for the production of novel enzymes that could boost the biofuel and biomass derived product research. Also, this work summarizes the research that has been conducted in the last two decades and that supports the use of S. commune as a current aspirant for white, green and gray biotechnology applications.

2. GENERAL ASPECTS OF SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE

Schizophyllum commune is an agarical mushroom‐forming fungus, able to complete its life cycle in about 10 days and is one of the most commonly found fungi, whose distribution covers all continents with the exception of Antarctica (Ohm, de Jong, Lugones, et al., 2010). Schizophyllum commune has been successfully genetically modified and used as molecular tool for studying cell wall biogenesis (Wessels, 1986), hyphal fusion and development (Ahmad & Miles, 1970; Van Wetter, Schuren, Schuurs, & Wessels, 1996), mating type (Kothe, 1999; Yang, Shen, Park, Novotny, & Ullrich, 1995), heterologous expression of genes (Schuren & Wessels, 1998), gene deletions (De Jong, Ohm, De Bekker, Wösten, & Lugones, 2010; Ohm, de Jong, Berends, et al., 2010), among others. Although it has been detected causing illness in animals and humans, its lifestyle is mainly saprobic by causing white rot. Actually, it has been reported that at least 150 genera of woody plants are substrates for S. commune, but it also colonizes softwood and grass silage (Ohm, de Jong, Lugones, et al., 2010). This feature is one of the most interesting points in a biotechnological sense about this fungus, since it allows S. commune to colonize a vast diversity of lignocellulosic substrates, expanding the range of possibilities and biotechnological products (e.g., enzymes (phytase, lipase, holocellulase, etc.) (Arboleda Valencia et al., 2011; Salmon et al., 2012; Singh, Singh, Kumar, & Thakur, 2015), bioethanol (Horisawa, Ando, Ariga, & Sakuma, 2015), biosurfactants (Wessels, de Vries, Asgeirsdottir, & Springer, 1991), industrial cleaning‐in‐place (CiP) agents (Boyce & Walsh, 2012), polysaccharides (Singh, Kumar, & Thakur, 2017), polymers (Jayakumar, Kanth, Chandrasekaran, Raghava Rao, & Nair, 2010), etc.) that can be obtained with this microbe (Figure 1). As a matter of fact, S. commune has the potential to degrade all components of the lignocellulosic biomass, since its genome contain 240 gene candidates for glycoside hydrolases (89 account for plant polysaccharides degradation, see Figure 2), 75 for glycosyl transferases, 16 for polysaccharide lyases, 17 for expansin‐related proteins, 30 for carbohydrate esterases, and 16 for lignin‐degrading oxidoreductases (Ohm, de Jong, Lugones, et al., 2010). This extensive repertoire of plant cell wall degrading and modifying enzymes makes S. commune an outstanding candidate for studies regarding the mechanism by which this fungus degrades biomass in order to exploit its potential and improve the efficiency of industrial processes such as the lignocellulosic ethanol production, bioconversion of agricultural by‐products or biodegradation of xenobiotics and pollutants (Table 1).

Figure 1.

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Biotechnological applications of Schyzophyllum commune. Glycoside hydrolase (GH), carbohydrate esterase (CE), glycosyltransferase (GT), polysaccharide lyase (PL), lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase (AA9), laccase (AA1), peroxide‐producing enzymes (AA3, and AA5)

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Glycoside hydrolase (GH) genes present in the genome of Schizophyllum commune. Only those involved in plant cell wall deconstruction were considered

Table 1.

Examples of biotechnological uses of Schizophyllum commune

Biotechnological uses References
Lipase production Singh, Singh, Kumar, and Thakur (2014)
Phytase production Salmon et al. (2012)
Lipase inmobilization for fatty acids methyl esters Singh et al. (2015)
Decolorization of textile dyes Asgher, Yasmeen, and Iqbal (2013) and Bhatti, Akram, and Asgher (2008)
Decolorization of Azo dyes and synthetic dyes Tang, Jia, and Zhang (2011) and Yao, Jia, Zheng, and Wang (2013)
Biosorption of heavy metals Amna, Bajwa, and Javaid (2010), Gabriel, Švec, Kolihová, Tlustoš, and Száková (2016), Javaid and Bajwa (2008)
Biotransformation of sophorocoside Wu et al. (2012)
Direct ethanol production Horisawa et al. (2015)
Holocellulase production Arboleda Valencia et al. (2011)
Lignocellulose degradation Asgher et al. (2016)
Phenolic compounds biosorption Kumar and Min (2011)
Schizophyllan production Kumari, Survase, and Singhal (2008)
Polysaccharide derived antimicrobials Jayakumar et al. (2010)
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3. PROTEINS INVOLVED IN CELLULOSE DECONSTRUCTION BY SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE

The subject of cellulose deconstruction by fungi leads us to think immediately of organisms like Trichoderma reesei, Neurospora crassa, and various Aspergillus species, considering the ascomycetes group, and mainly in Phanerochaete chrysosporium when referring to the basidiomycetes group, leaving out of study a significant group of basidiomycetes with the same or even greater potential to degrade cellulose. One of these basidiomycetes is the “split gill” fungus S. commune, whose genome sequence was published in 2010 (Ohm, de Jong, Lugones, et al., 2010). Its genome revealed that it contains 240 candidate genes belonging to glycoside hydrolases from different families, almost 80 more GH genes than those reported for P. chrysosporium.

The study of the hydrolytic machinery in organisms like S. commune is attractive mainly for the lignocellulosic biofuels industry, since the number of published works is still growing year by year in this subject, but is not limited to this area. Something remarkable is that the amount and diversity of published work related with the S. commune ′s cellulolytic system is scarce (Table 2) when compared with published work (in this area) of fungi like T. reesei, N. crassa or P. chrysosporium, despite the fact that studies such as those carried out by Arboleda Valencia et al. (2011), Lee et al. (2014), Zhu et al., (2016) have demonstrated that S. commune has an important potential in the lignocellulose bioconversion field, even exhibiting cellulolytic and xylanolytic activities comparable with those obtained using an enzymatic commercial preparation of Trichoderma longibranchiatum.

Table 2.

Cellulolytic and xylanolytic enzymes studied in S. commune

Enzyme Inducer substrate References
β‐Glucosidase Cellulose Desrochers, Jurasek, and Paice (1981)
Endoglucanase β‐glucosidase Thiocellobiose Rho, Desrochers, and Jurasek (1982)
Xylanase CMC
Cellobiose
Xylan
Endoglucanase Cellulose Willick and Seligy (1985)
β‐Glucosidase
Xylanase
Endoglucanase Unknown Clarke and Adams (1987)
Xylanase Avicel Steiner, Lafferty, Gomes, and Esterbauer (1987)
Endoglucanase
Xylanase Bacteria cellulose Haltrich, Sebesta, and Steiner (1996)
Endoglucanase Cellobiose
Sophorose
Birchwood xylan
Acetylxylan esterase Unknown Biely et al. (1996)
Cellulase GH5 Unknown Clarke, Drummelsmith, and Yaguchi (1997)
α‐Glucuronidase Cellulose Tenkanen and Siika‐Aho (2000)
Wheat bran
Distiller′s spent grain
Xylanase Cellulose Kolenová, Vršanská, and Biely (2005)
Glucuronyl esterase Cellulose Špániková and Biely (2006)
Xylanase Bamboo fibers Arboleda Valencia et al. (2011)
Mannanase Banana stem
Polygalacturonase Sugarcane bagasse
Endoglucanase
Fpase
Avicelase
α‐Glucuronidase Recombinant Chong et al. (2011)
Xylanase Cellulose Tsujiyama and Ueno (2011)
CMCase Rice straw
β‐Glucosidase Wood
Acetylesterase
Cinnamic acid esterase
β‐Glucosidase Cellulose Lee et al. (2014)
Avicelase Avicel Luziatelli et al. (2014)
FPase Tamarix leaves
β‐Glucosidase
α‐Amylase
Expansin Recombinant Tovar‐Herrera et al., (2015)
Endoglucanase Jerusalem artichoke stalks Zhu et al. (2016)
Cellobiohydrolase
β‐Glucosidase
α‐Glucuronidase Recombinant McKee et al. (2016)
β‐Glucosidase Cellulose Lee et al. (2017)
Feruloyl esterase Recombinant Nieter, Kelle, Linke, and Berger (2016)
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The cellulose degradation mechanisms by ascomycetes and basidiomycetes have been revised by Glass, Schmoll, Cate, and Coradetti (2013) and Baldrian and Valásková (2008). However, although the role of the classic enzymes involved in cellulose deconstruction such as endoglucanases, cellobiohydrolases, cellobiose dehydrogenases and beta glucosidases is well documented in fungi, the role of the termed “amorphogenic proteins” or plant cell wall remodeling proteins (expansins and expansin‐related proteins) in cellulose deconstruction is not well understood in both, ascomycetes and basidiomycetes. These amorphogenic proteins cause swelling of cellulose fibers and fragmentation of cellulose aggregations at the beginning of the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose before any detectable amount of reducing sugars is released (Gourlay et al., 2013). From these latter proteins, the swollenin from T. reesei is the most studied, and after its discovering it was suggested as the C 1 factor of the cellulose enzymatic degradation mechanism originally proposed by Mandels and Reese (1999) and Reese, Siu, and Levinson (1950). Nevertheless, that hypothesis has been rejected by the work of Eibinger et al. (2016), who demonstrates that swollenin is not an amorphogenesis factor when acting on pure cellulose. Nonetheless, the possibility that one or more of these plant cell wall remodeling proteins may be acting as the C1 factor is yet to be proven. Indeed, the genome of S. commune contains at least 17 expansin‐related proteins, one of which has already been cloned and expressed in Pichia pastoris, showing a 23% increment in avicel hydrolysis when used as pretreatment before the addition of a cellulase mixture (Tovar‐Herrera et al., 2015). However, the study of this type of proteins is relatively new in microbes, and there is a lot of information yet to be obtained from them.

Another group of proteins with great importance and also involved in biomass deconstruction is the group of enzymes known as lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) classified in auxiliary activity families 9 (AA9), 10 (AA10), 11 (AA11), and 13 (AA13) in the CAZy database (Frandsen et al., 2016; Frommhagen et al., 2015; Hemsworth, Henrissat, Davies, & Walton, 2013; Silveira & Skaf, 2016; Vaaje‐Kolstad et al., 2010). From these families, AA9 corresponds to fungal proteins involved in cellulose deconstruction (some of them are also active in hemicellulose), while AA10 belongs to a bacterial group of LMPOs active on cellulose and chitin, and AA11 and AA13 are fungal proteins active on chitin and starch, respectively. AA9 proteins have been studied in N. crassa (Tian et al., 2009), T. reesei (Tanghe et al., 2015), P. chrysosporium (Westereng et al., 2011), Chaetominium globosum (Kim et al., 2015) and Myceliophthora thermophile (Frommhagen et al., 2015), and have been reported to improve the release of glucose and oligosaccharides from avicel, regenerating amorphous cellulose and lignocellulosic substrates even at a level of 150 fold increase (Frommhagen et al., 2015).

Three recent works have reported the presence of AA9 proteins in the secretomes of S. commune when cultured in avicel (one protein) (Sornlake et al., 2017), Jerusalem artichoke stalks (nine proteins) (Zhu et al., 2016), and Leucaena leucocephala wood chips (Singh et al., 2017) (3 proteins). This fact indicates that similar to the classic hydrolytic cellulase system, the expression of AA9 proteins in fungi is dependent on the substrate. Further analyses are necessary to evaluate the biochemical features and the position of the oxidative cleavages (C1 oxidation, C4 oxidation, or both) performed by these enzymes, since understanding the action mechanism of fungal LPMOs and gaining information about the transcriptional regulation of LPMO genes in fungi and bacteria would help to decipher how microbes fully deconstruct lignocellulosic biomass.

4. PROTEINS INVOLVED IN HEMICELLULOSE DECONSTRUCTION BY SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE

Hemicelluloses are heteropolysaccharides from the plant cell walls that constitute the second most abundant component of lignocellulosic biomass. Their complex structure is dependent on the source and mainly contains pentoses (xylose and arabinose), hexoses (glucose, galactose, and mannose) and, to a lesser extent, glucuronic and galacturonic acid. The bioconversion of hemicellulose to obtain ethanol or other value‐added products, such as chemicals and biopolymers, is a well‐researched topic. Through a pretreatment process, the hemicelluloses are degraded or broken down in the biomass, releasing fermentable sugars such as xylose, arabinose and glucose, and rendering the cellulose more accessible to cellulolytic enzymes (Lavarack, Griffin, & Rodman, 2002). Pretreatment of hemicelullose (usually chemically treated) is one of the most expensive steps of biomass processing, thus, studies to decrease the cost are of main interest from an economic point of view (Canam, Town, Iroba, Tabil, & Dumonceaux, 2013). The poor sustainability of the currently used acid/base‐catalyzed processes has highlighted the need for a more environmentally friendly and mild pretreatment of the hemicellulosic biomass, such as biological ones, that also encompasses a high efficiency (Canam et al., 2013). Another disadvantage of chemical processes is that byproducts may potentially act as microbial inhibitors during the subsequent fermentation steps (Peng, Peng, Xu, & Sun, 2012). Therefore, enzymatic pretreatment and bioconversion have arisen as a suitable alternative that could be coupled to subsequent fermentation and might enhance the industrial processing of biomass. The main drawback of enzymatic processing is that high efficiency has not been achieved to date. New enzyme cocktails that can increase the yields of fermentable products and other value‐added chemicals are currently under study (Zhu et al., 2016).

Hemicellulases are a generic family of proteins that catalyze the degradation of hemicellulosic polymers from which xylanases have been intensely researched. Xylan is the most abundant type of hemicellulose found on hardwoods and its structure is mainly (1→4)‐linked β‐d‐xylopyranosyl residues that are substituted with glucuronosyl and 4‐O‐methylglucuronosyl residues by α‐(1→2) linkages. Other substituent like acetyl, feruloyl, coumaroyl groups and α‐l‐arabinofuranose can also be of relative importance to produce the complete breakdown of hemicellulose. Generally, xylanases refer to a large group of enzymes comprising endo‐1, 4‐β‐xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8) and β‐xylosidase (EC 3.2.1.37), and several accessory enzymes with debranching activity (Peng et al., 2012). Endo‐xylanases degrade xylan at internal sites, producing xylooligosaccharides of varying length. Complementary, β‐xylosidase removes xylose residues from the end of these short oligosaccharides. Esterases are among the most studied enzymes with debranching activity on hemicellulose. Acetylxylan esterase (EC 3.1.1.72) removes the O‐acetyl of acetyl xylan, while feruloyl and coumaroyl esterases (EC 3.1.1.73) hydrolyse the phenolic compounds linked to arabinofuranoside residues. α‐l‐Arabinofuranosidase (EC 3.2.1.55) and α‐d‐glucuronidase (EC 3.2.1.139) are also responsible for the cleavage of branching structures.

The reduced capacity of S. commune to degrade the lignin components from lignocellulose has been previously reported (Floudas et al., 2015; Horisawa et al., 2015; Zhu et al., 2016) in agreement with the lack of genes encoding class II peroxidases from the AA2 family (Ohm, de Jong, Lugones, et al., 2010). Interestingly, the main enzymatic activity detected in culture supernatants from S. commune grown in lignocellulosic substrates is hemicellulolytic (Zhu et al., 2016). Nevertheless, the production of xylanase activity in this fungus is under the regulatory control of cellulosic degradation byproducts (Haltrich & Steiner, 1994). Xylan or galactomannan do not induce xylanase or mannanase activities when provided as sole carbon source. Instead, cellulose, cellobiose, lactose, and l‐sorbose induce, altogether, xylanase, cellulase, as well as mannanase activities indicating a common regulatory control in this fungus (Haltrich & Steiner, 1994).

The analysis of the genome of S. commune has shown that non‐cellulosic polysaccharide‐degrading enzymes are more abundant when compared to other model of lignocellulose decomposers (Ohm, de Jong, Lugones, et al., 2010). This fungus contains an extensive repertoire of xylan and pectin glycoside hydrolases as shown in Table 3, indicating a great potential for hemicellulose deconstruction. When compared with other basidiomycete fungi (the white‐rot Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Ceriporiopsis subvermispora and the brown‐rot Gloeophyllum trabeum), S. commune achieved the highest xylanase activity when growing on a lignocellulosic substrate (Zhu et al., 2016). Similarly, a crude enzymatic cocktail obtained from a solid‐state fermentation of S. commune was more effective than a commercial enzyme cocktail from Trichoderma longibrachiatum in terms of reducing sugar release from pretreated lignocellulosic biomass (Zhu et al., 2016). In this case, while cellulolytic activities where similar, the level of xylanases was significantly higher in the S. commune enzymatic cocktail.

Table 3.

Hemicelulose degrading glycoside hydrolases in the genome of S. commune (modified from (Ohm, de Jong, Lugones, et al., 2010))

CAZyme family No. Genes Carbohydrate target Enzyme name No. enzymes
GH5 1 Hemicellulose β‐mannanase 1
GH10 5 Hemicellulose β‐1,4‐endoxylanase 5
GH11 1 Hemicellulose β‐1,4‐endoxylanase 1
GH26 1 Hemicellulose Glycosidase related 1
GH43 19 Pectin + hemicellulose Exo‐b‐1,3‐galactanase 2
α‐l‐arabinofuranosidases 12
Glycosidase related 5
GH51 2 Pectin + hemicellulose α‐l‐arabinofuranosidase 2
GH53 1 Pectin + hemicellulose Endo‐β‐1,4‐galactanase 1
GH62 1 Hemicellulose α‐l‐arabinofuranosidase 1
GH93 2 Hemicellulose Exo‐1,5‐α‐l‐arabinanase 1
Glycosidase related 1
GH115 2 Hemicellulose Xylan α‐1,2‐glucuronidase 2
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5. LIGNIN DEGRADING ENZYMES AND ALTERNATIVE BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE

In addition to the cellulases and xylanases studied in S. commune (Table 1), the lignin‐degrading enzymes of this fungus have also been evaluated for different biotechnological applications. According to the CAZy database, lignin‐degrading enzymes are grouped in some of the families with auxiliary activity. From these, S. commune produces only members of the AA1 (laccases; 2 genes), AA3 (cellobiose dehydrogenases: 1 gene; glucose oxidase: 4 genes; aryl alcohol oxidase: 1 gene; pyranose oxidase: 1 gene; alcohol oxidase: 1 gene) AA5 (glyoxal oxidase: 2 genes) and AA6 (benzoquinone reductase: 4 genes) families, lacking the production of lignin peroxidases (LiP), manganese peroxidases (MnP) and versatile peroxidases (VP), that belong to the AA2 family (Ohm, de Jong, Lugones, et al., 2010). Intriguingly, although S. commune does not produce MnP nor LiP as stated above, there are a variety of studies which mention that the Lip and MnP enzymes from S. commune are involved in the decolorization of azo and textile dyes or that the LiP and MnP from S. commune are useful enzymes for lignin removal of a variety of lignocellulosic substrates (Asgher, Wahab, Bilal, & Nasir Iqbal, 2016). It is likely that instead of MnP and LiP, the enzymes involved in the decolorization and delignification effects are members of the multi‐copper oxidases and the hydroxyl radical generation system, among others (Ohm, de Jong, Lugones, et al., 2010).

The evaluation of extracellular laccases from S. commune date to 1986 (De Vries, Kooistra, & Wessels, 1986). These enzymes are proteins with a great versatility, since they can oxidize a variety of organic and inorganic compounds, phenolic and non‐phenolic substrates, including, mono, di, polyphenols, aminophenols, and metoxyphenols (Upadhyay, Shrivastava, & Agrawal, 2016). Current laccase investigations are focused on bio‐oxidation and biotransformation processes, biosensor development, enzymatic synthesis of organic compounds, biopulping and biobleaching, textile dye transformation, removal of phenolic compounds from must and wine, waste effluent treatment, fossil fuel desulfurization, biosolubilization of coal, degradation of herbicides, food treatments, medicinal applications through the synthesis of novel compounds and delignification and biografting of lignocellulosics (Singh Arora & Kumar, 2010; Upadhyay et al., 2016). However, the search for industrial applications of S. commune ′s laccases is scarce, and is limited to dye decolorization experiments, the study of the three‐dimensional model of one of the laccases from S. commune and the activity related to delignification of lignocellulosic substrates. This lack of industrial applications of laccases from S. commune leaves open areas of studies to be exploited from various points of view.

6. PATENTS RELATED TO THE POTENTIAL OF SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

Patent databases (United States Patent Office (USPO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office (EPO), etc.) show an overview on technological and industrial state of the art as well as conceptual and methodological advances in the field of molecular biology and biotechnological applications (applied mycobiotechnology and myco‐remediation technology) of fungi.

In this context, there is an increase in the biotechnological significance of S. commnune in the last 15 years. Related to its genome, its enzymatic complexes and its biological versatility, more than 6,000 patent application documents and technological reports have been registered between 1995 and 2017 worldwide, which support S. commune as a biotechnologically functional microorganism, relevant in different technological, agricultural, environmental and pharmaceutical fields. At the EPO, Espacenet, more than 170 patent documents have been registered during 2000–2017, directly linked to technological and industrial applications of S. commune. The fields of innovation‐patentability‐biotechnology where the versatility of S. commune is currently being applied are summarized in Table 4.

Table 4.

Granted and applied patents related with S. commune

Technical and industrial fields of the patents (applied for or granted) Applicant(s) and year References
Selective and oriented enzyme production and preparation
Preparation of glucoamylase TAX ADM Agency (Japan, 1984) Shimazaki and Sato (1984)
Production of bilirubin‐oxidase Takara Shuzo Co. Ltd (Japan, 1986; 1984) Matsui, Sato, and Nakajima (1986) and Susumu, Satou, and Takako (1984)
Production of cholesterol oxidase and its use in modification of natural occurring spirostanes Toejepast Natuur Ondersoek, (Netherland, 1988); Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Osaka, Japan, 1977) Kerkenar Anthonius inventor, NO voor TNO (1988) and Sugiura, Shimizu, Sugiyama, Kuratsu, and Hirata (1977)
Production of xyloglycan endo‐transglycosylases Novozymes A/S (Europe, 2000) Ilum (2000)
Production of cholesterol esterase Toyobo Co. Ltd. (Japan, 1978) Aisui, Nakagiri, and Otawara (1976)
Production of pantolactone hydrolase Fuji Yakuhin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan, 1996) Sakamoto, Yamada, and Shimizu (1996)
Production of xylanase and laccases for treatment of wood pulp and lignin decomposition Mercian Corp. Japan Bioindustry Association Agency of Ind. Science & Technol (Japan, 2000); Clariant Finance (bvi) Limited Sandoz (Europe, 1997) Behrendt, Blanchette, Farrell, and Iverson (1997) and Hitoshi, Watanabe, Yoshio, and Takeo (2000)
Production of thermostable xylanases National Research Council of Canada (Canada, 2001) Wing (2001)
Production of thermo‐resistant trehalose phosphorylase Kureha Chem. Ind. Co. Ltd (Japan, 2004) Eisaki, Eiichi, Yasutake, and Toshihiko (2004)
Multifunctional cellulases Dyadic International (USA, 2013) Ltd. (USA); Novozymes A/S (2014). Emalfarb et al., (2013) and Kuilderd, Wu, Li, and Zhou (2014)
Enzymatic complex with chlorogenic acid esterase activity and feruloyl esterase activity Stern Enzym GmBH & Co. KG (Denmarck, 2014) Nieter et al. (2016)
Obtaining and preparation of secondary metabolites and derivatives with great added value
Preparation and use of β‐glucans Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch (USA, 2009) Kim, Park, and Sang‐Rin (2009)
Preparation of neoschizophyllan Taito Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan, 1978) & Kaken Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan, 1978) Kikumoto, Yamamoto, Komatsu, Kobayashi, and Kamasuka (1978)
Preparation of trehalose Kureha Chem. Ind. Co. Ltd (Japan, 1994) Takashi and Eisaku (1994)
Preparation of schizostatin Sankyo Co. Ltd (Japan, 1995) Yoshio, Kiyoshi, Tomoyuki, Tatsuo, and Takeshi (1995)
Preparation of stachyose Infinitus (China, 2017) Meng, Zhang, Zhou, Gao, and Duan (2017)
Obtention of ergothioneine Mitsubishi Shoji Foodtech Co Ltd (Japan, 2015) Tokumits (2015)
Preparation of schizophyllan Ningbo Xinuoya Marine Biotechnology Co. Ltd (China. 2016) Hui (2016)
Production of huperzine A Univ. Fujian Traditional Chinese Medicine (China, 2014) Yaxuan (2014)
Processes and prototypes
Cosmetic creams for topical use MAX FUAKUTAA KK (Japan) Fukada, Kobayashi, Matsuda, Kato, Toshinori, and Kojima (1993)
Oxidative dyeing process of keratin fibers Casalonga Axel Bureau (Europe, 2002) Gregory (2002)
Endoglucanase treatment of lignocellulosic materials and selective degradation of resin acids and triterpenes Novozymes, A/S (USA, 2002) Schülein et al. (2002)
Production of II generation biofuels from vegetable biomass via cellulolytic enzymes IFP (France, 2009) Margeot Antoine (2009)
Process for degradation of lignin and dioxin derivatives in field conditions Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd (Japan, 2001) Yuki Junishiro (2001)
Process for degradation of exogenous endocrine disruptors Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. (Japan, 2002) Genshi and Takahiro (2002)
Process for decomposition of prions Kondo Ryuichiro (Japan, 2005) Ryuichiro, Yuli, and Shiro (2005)
Process for production of alcohol or second generation solvent IFP Énergies Nouvelles (France, 2012) Ropars, Aymard, Guillaume, and Menir (2012)
Design of immunological cancer therapies Therapy Co. Ltd (Japan, 2000) Akiyuni and Takashi (2000)
Process for selective removal of hexenuronic groups from biomass Siika‐aho, Matti (USA, 2004) Siika‐Aho et al. (2004)
Mycelial extracts formulations for potentiating the resistance of bee colonies against fungal‐viral collapse syndrome Paul Stamets and Co. (USA, 2015, 2017) Stamets (2015, 2017)
Biological saccharification method using biomass PHYGEN Inc (Korea, 2016) Kul et al. (2017)
Nutritional additives
Enhance immunity of lobster Dingyuan County Profess. Coop. (China, 2016) Guanghong (2016)
Milk cow forage Xuzhou Jiwang Xintuo Animal Husbandry Co. Ltd. (China, 2016) Xiume (2016)
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In the field of lignocellulosic biomass, more than 1,100 patents (altogether applied and granted) related to the use of S. commune were reported in the last two decades (Gupta, 2016), including biofuel′s production and biomass derivatives. As stated before, it is recognized that economic utilization of widely distributed lignocellulosic biomass as a feedstock for the eco‐sustainable production of biocarburants, biodiesel, molecular scaffolds, biomaterials, fuels, and chemicals with high‐added value would represent a conceptual and methodological change in the strategic utilization of natural raw materials, allowing sustainable resources to be substituted for, and compete with, petroleum‐based products.

In other research areas, S. commune has also been a subject of interest. For example, a nematicidal and bacteriostatic fumigant formulation has been prepared from an S. commune strain where the main bioactive component is β‐bisabolol. This composition is environmentally friendly and shows a very wide spectrum of action (Kaiyin, 2017). Cozen Co. Ltd reported a hot water‐extracted thrombotic dissolving enzyme (9–10 kDa) from S. commune fruiting bodies, capable of being used effectively as health supplement food or a treatment agent for thrombus‐related disease (Choi Nack Shick, 2015).

The patent database study (EPO base, 150–170 documents from 1990 to 2017) reveals that the main technological‐industrial application fields for S. commune in the last two decades were: nutritional additives for humans and animals with economic significance; agricultural biotechnology; pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry; generation of secondary metabolites with great‐added value; biotechnological application of enzyme complexes; biomass processing and bio‐refineries; and environmental issues. Some results are shown in Figure 3.

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Europe Patent Office patents (1990–2017). Distribution by technological application fields

Taking this information into account, it must be highlighted that nutritional additives (nutrient feed, fermented functional beverages, forage, healthcare formulations, tonifying compositions, etc.) correspond to 20% of the overall patents reported for that period. In the case of the pharma‐cosmetic field (bioactive antibacterial‐ nematocide components, pharma compositions, extracts with selective pharmaceutical properties, anticancer and antiviral formulations, skin treatment creams, ophthalmic solutions, bio‐adhesives, anti‐oxidant and anti‐wrinkle formulations, nano‐liposomes, etc.) it corresponds to 27%. Regarding to biomass bioprocessing and related processes (bio‐pretreatment of agro‐wastes, biological saccharification, gelatin production, obtention of biofuels and bio‐derivatives at the bio‐refinery level, generation of enzymatic complexes for treatment of lignocellulosic materials and wastes, functional biofibers and bio‐oligomers, solid fermentation, pith and lignin degradation, bio‐oriented decomposition, etc.) the patents correspond to 22%, and, in the field of applied secondary metabolites, with great‐added value, and utilization of enzymatic complexes (laccases, cellulases, xylanases, esterases, oxidases, production of glucans and polysaccharides with different molecular weights, ergothioneine, schizophyllan, glucosone, xylitols, trehalose, pantolactone, retinoids, organic acids, etc.), the patents number account for 31% of the total. It is noteworthy that the observed application‐development trends will be maintained in the next 2–5 years, which supports the biotechnological versatility and applicability of this basidiomycete.

7. CONCLUSIONS

Schizophyllum commune is a fungus that has a quite complete enzymatic set that can be used for diverse areas in the biotechnological field. Its genome description as well as the recently published works and patents related to this fungus, demonstrates part of the biotechnological potential that S. commune possess. This review is the first to concentrate most of the work that has been done with S. commune in the subject of plant biomass exploitation and the enzymes involved in its degradation, with a view to its future implementation in bio‐refineries, pollutant degradation, formulation of enzymatic cocktails, bioconversion of agricultural by‐products, as an example. Additionally, S. commune is a good source for hydrolytic, non‐hydrolytic and oxidative enzymes which can help to understand the processes by which this fungus is capable of using the carbohydrates and phenolic compounds in the vast diversity of woods it can colonize, since classical genetics and genetic engineering techniques are available for S. commune.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are thankful to the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT) since OETH received a scholarship during the elaboration of this work. We also thank the financial support received from SEP‐PRODEP‐UAEMOR‐PITC‐381. RABG received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Quebec Government.

Tovar‐Herrera OE, Martha‐Paz AM, Pérez‐LLano Y, et al. Schizophyllum commune: An unexploited source for lignocellulose degrading enzymes. MicrobiologyOpen. 2018;7:e637 10.1002/mbo3.637

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