pectin degradation

traitmech:000135 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A biopolymer-degradation metabolism in which an organism depolymerizes pectin into oligogalacturonides and catabolizes the released pectin breakdown products using pectinolytic enzymes.

Trait evidence (2)

DOI:10.1128/MMBR.00038-07
Catabolism of pectin and its breakdown products by pectinolytic bacteria occurs within distinct cellular environments

Abbott and Boraston review pectin breakdown by pectinolytic Enterobacteriaceae as a multicomponent microbial catabolic pathway.
DOI:10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.213
The extracellular degradation of the pectin leads to the formation of oligogalacturonides that are catabolized through an intracellular pathway

Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat et al. review the pectinase system and pectin-catabolite pathway of Erwinia chrysanthemi strain 3937.

Provenance

Identifier source: TraitMech local identifier
Definition source: DOI:10.1128/MMBR.00038-07

Parent traits (1)

biopolymer degradation traitmech:000110

Synonyms (4)

pectinolysis EXACT_SYNONYM · DOI:10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.213
pectin breakdown EXACT_SYNONYM · http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/releases/2026-07-26/go-basic.obo
pectin catabolism EXACT_SYNONYM · http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/releases/2026-07-26/go-basic.obo
pectinolytic RELATED_SYNONYM · DOI:10.1128/MMBR.00038-07

Cross-references

GO:0045490

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Curation history

2026-09-10T00:00:00Z · PROPOSED_FROM_RESEARCH · codex
Proposed DOI-backed pectin degradation after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files.