An alkaline active feruloyl-CoA synthetase from soil metagenome as a potential key enzyme for lignin valorization strategies

• Victoria Sodré ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Victoria Sodré, Juscemácia Nascimento Araujo, Thiago Augusto Gonçalves

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are shared first-authors on this work.

  Affiliations Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil, Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil

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• Juscemácia Nascimento Araujo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Victoria Sodré, Juscemácia Nascimento Araujo, Thiago Augusto Gonçalves

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are shared first-authors on this work.

  Affiliation Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), Santo André, SP, Brazil

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• Thiago Augusto Gonçalves ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Victoria Sodré, Juscemácia Nascimento Araujo, Thiago Augusto Gonçalves

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are shared first-authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil, Programa de Processos Tecnológicos e Ambientais, Universidade de Sorocaba (UNISO), Sorocaba, SP, Brazil

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• Nathália Vilela,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil, Programa de Processos Tecnológicos e Ambientais, Universidade de Sorocaba (UNISO), Sorocaba, SP, Brazil

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• Antonio Sergio Kimus Braz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), Santo André, SP, Brazil

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• Telma Teixeira Franco,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil

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• Mário de Oliveira Neto,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Física e Biofísica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Botucatu, SP, Brazil

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• André Ricardo de Lima Damasio,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil

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• Wanius Garcia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), Santo André, SP, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3712-3488

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• Fabio Marcio Squina

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fabio.squina@prof.uniso.br

  Affiliations Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil, Programa de Processos Tecnológicos e Ambientais, Universidade de Sorocaba (UNISO), Sorocaba, SP, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8154-7459

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