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Table 1 Activities measured against different substrates and colloidal sugar cane bagasse in a commercial preparation of cellulase from Trichoderma reesei.

From: High throughput screening of hydrolytic enzymes from termites using a natural substrate derived from sugarcane bagasse

Substrate

Enzymatic activity

(mU/μL)

Specific activity

(mU/mg)

Laminarin

0.049 ± 0.002

290 ± 30

CMC

0.010 ± 0.001

59 ± 8

Pectin

0.0008 ± 0.0001

5 ± 1

Xylan

0.034 ± 0.002

210 ± 20

pnPβGlu

0.020 ± 0.001

120 ± 10

pnPβXyl

0.013 ± 0.001

81 ± 9

Avicel

0.015 ± 0.001

90 ± 10

CSCB

0.032 ± 0.002

190 ± 21

  1. Protein concentration was 0.17 ± 0.01 mg/mL. Numbers are means ± standard error of the mean from five experiments. See Materials and methods for more details. CMC: carboxymethylcellulose; CSCB: colloidal sugar cane bagasse; pnPβGlu: p-nitrophenyl-β-glucoside; pNPβXyl: p-nitrophenyl-β-xyloside.
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Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts

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