Table 1.

Transcriptional activators involved in plant biomass degradation in Aspergilli. Details on the regulators and their roles can be found in previous publications (Kowalczyk et al., 2014, Benocci et al., 2017).

Regulator	Degradation of polysaccharides	Metabolic pathways	Original reference in Aspergillus
AmyR	Starch		Petersen et al. 1999
MalR	Starch		Hasegawa et al. 2010
XlnR	Xylan, xyloglucan, galactomannan, cellulose	Pentose catabolic pathway, pentose phosphate pathway	van Peij et al. 1998a
AraR	Xylan, pectin	Pentose catabolic pathway, pentose phosphate pathway, D-galacturonic acid pathway	Battaglia et al. 2011
ClrA	Cellulose		Raulo et al. 2016
ClrB/ManR	Cellulose, galactomannan		Ogawa et al., 2012, Ogawa et al., 2013
ClbR	Cellulose, xylan		Kunitake et al. 2013
GalR		D-galactose oxido-reductive pathway	Christensen et al. 2011
GalX	Galactomannan	Leloir pathway	Gruben et al. 2012
GaaR	Pectin	D-galacturonic acid pathway	Alazi et al. 2016
RhaR	Pectin	L-rhamnose pathway	Gruben et al. 2014
InuR	Inulin		Yuan et al. 2008