The fish pathogen Aliivibrio salmonicida LFI1238 can degrade and metabolize chitin despite major gene loss in the chitinolytic pathway
A. Skane, G. Minniti, J. S. M. Loose, S. Mekasha, B. Bissaro, G. Mathiesen, M. O. Arntzen, G. Vaaje-Kolstad
This study shows that Aliivibrio salmonicida LFI1238 can degrade and metabolize chitin despite having many chitinolytic genes disrupted, using GH18 chitinase and AA10 LPMOs for this ability.
bioRxiv · Mar 24, 2021Biochemistry