JENA, Germany, May 31 (UPI) --Microbes inside the guts of animals, including humans, produce enzymes that break down food. These enzymes team-up with those naturally produced by the body to aid ...

Many plant-feeding insects need microbial enzymes, such as pectinases, that degrade plant cell walls; yet some insects have overcome this dependency in a surprising way. Now researchers found that ...

Microbial pectinolytic enzymes encompass a suite of biocatalysts, chiefly polygalacturonases, pectate lyases and pectin methylesterases, that cleave and de-esterify the complex pectic polysaccharides ...

Many animals depend on their microbiome to digest their food. Symbiotic microorganisms produce enzymes their hosts cannot, and these work alone or together with the animals' own enzymes to break down ...