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The plant secondary metabolites coumarin and sparteine reduced attachm
ent to cellulose, cellulose solubilization, and the proportion of lact
ate in the fermentation products of the anaerobic fungus Neocallimasti
x frontalis RE1. Neither compound directly inhibited the endoglucanase
or lactate dehydrogenase activities of cell extracts of the fungus.