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Lignin biodegradation is a key step for carbon recycling in terrestrial ecosystems, where white-rot basidiomycetes fungi degrade this recalcitrant wood polymer enabling cellulose utilization by microbial populations. Three peroxidases involved in lignin degradation are known as lignin peroxidase (LiP), manganese peroxidase (MnP), versatile peroxidase (VP). The cDNA encoding manganese peroxydase isozyme H4 (MnPH4), isolated from Phanerochaete chrysosporium, was cloned into the pPICZα vectors and expressed in Pichia pastoris under the control of the methanol inducible alcohol oxidase I (AOXI) promoter. Enzyme assay indicated that the recombinant MnPH4 is efficiently secreted into the medium upon hemoglobin supplementation, at a maximum concentration of 500 U l-1. The purified recombinant manganese peroxidase (rMnP) exhibited a 60 kDa molecular mass considerably larger, because of their glycosylation, and showed optimum pH of 4.5 and temperature at 35 oC.