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Table 5 Possible origin of the detected linked residues

From: Recalcitrant carbohydrates after enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated lignocellulosic biomass

Residue

Linkage type

Model compounda

Putative enzyme involved

Glucopyranosyl

Terminally linked (1)

Pullulan

Eg/Cbh/Bgl

3 linked (2)

Lichenan

Ace/Fe

4 linked (3)

Glucan

Eg/Cbh/Bgl

6 linked (4)

Pullulan, stachyose

Ace/Fe/Aabn

4,6 linked (5)

Xyloglucan

Eg/Cbh/Bgl

Xylopyranosyl

4 linked (6)

Xylan

Xyl/Bxl

2,4 linked and 3,4 linked (7, 8)

Arabinoxylan

Abn/Xyl/Bxl

Arabino(pyra/fyra)nosyl (Arap/Araf)

Terminally linked (9, 10)

Arabinose

Abn

4-linked Arap or 5-linked Araf (11)

Debranched arabinan

Aabn

Mannopyranosyl

Terminally linked (12)

Mannose

Bman

2 linked and 6 linked (13, 15)

Acetylationb

Ace/Fe

4 linked (14)

Mannan

Bman

Galactopyranosyl

Terminally linked (16)

Galactose

Bgal

2,4 linked and 3,4 linked (17, 18)

Galactanb

AGal/Bgal

  1. a Based on previously published data
  2. b Proposed hypothetical model compound
  3. Numbers within parentheses are related to drawings in Fig. 2
  4. Abn arabinofuranosidases, Aabn alfaarabinofuranosidases, Xyl xylanases, Bxl betaxylosidases, Eg endoglucanases, Cbh cellobiohydrolases, Bgl betaglucosidases, Ace acetylxylan esterases, Fe feruroyl esterases, Bman betamannosidases, Agal alfagalactosidases, Bgal betagalactosidases
  5. The linkage information is deduced from the knowledge of model compounds