“…Notably, among enzymes related to saccharification and liquefaction in J3, glucoamylases were clearly active with high expression levels, indicating their collaborative roles along with high temperature in degrading starches, which would be spontaneously decomposed under high temperature, as well as suggesting a feasible way to mine thermostable glucoamylases from J3. The majority of enzymes related to saccharification and liquefaction in J3 were highly expressed by fungal species of R. emersonii , A. oryzae , A. fumigatus , and C. immitis , some of which have been found to secrete numerous carbohydrate-active enzymes and show high capacities toward degrading polymers, such as Aspergillus (Culleton et al, 2013; de Vries et al, 2017; Cologna et al, 2018) and R. emersonii (Hua et al, 2014; Martínez et al, 2016). In addition, J3 showed considerable potential for converting glucose to pivotal intermediates, such as acetate, ethanol, pyruvate, and acetyl-coA, which might then serve as direct or indirect substrates for JF flavor compounds including ethyl acetate, ethyl butanoate, ethyl propanoate, ethyl 2-hydroxypropanoate, ethyl 2-hydroxyhexanoate, acetic acid, 2-acetylpyridine, hexyl acetate, benzyl acetate ethyl, ethyl 3-methylbutanoate, ethyl benzeneacetate, and 3-methylbutyl acetate (Fan et al, 2012; Wang et al, 2014; Xiao et al, 2016; Gao et al, 2017).…”