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Table 2 Some thermostable cellulases of industrial significance

From: Lignocellulases: a review of emerging and developing enzymes, systems, and practices

Cellulase

Source/organism

Maximum/optimum activity

Stability (T1/2)

References

Cellulase

Desulfurococcus fermentans (Hyperthermophilic archaea)

80–82 °C (pH 6)

85 °C, >3 days

(Perevalova 2005)

Endoglucanase (GH5)

Hyperthermophilic archaea

109 °C (pH 6.8)

100 °C, 5 h

(Graham et al. 2011)

Endoglucanase (GH5)

Dictyoglomus thermophilum

50–85 °C (pH 5)

70 °C, 336 h

(Shi et al. 2013)

β-Glucosidase (GH1)

Thermotoga thermarum DSM 5069T

90 °C (pH 4.8)

90 °C, 2 h

(Zhao et al. 2013)

β-Glucosidase (GH1)

Hydrothermal spring metagenome

90 °C (pH 6.5)

90 °C, >1.5 h

(Schröder et al. 2014)

β-Glucosidase (GH1)

Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius

65 °C (pH 5.5)

65 °C, >3 h

(di Lauro et al. 2006)

β-Glucosidase (GH3)

Thermofilum pendens

90 °C (pH 3.5)

90 °C, >2 h

(Li et al. 2013)

β-Glucosidase (GH3)

Pholiota adiposa SKU0714

65 °C (pH 5)

65 °C, 23 h

(Jagtap et al. 2013)

β-Glucosidase

Pyrococcus furiosus

102–05 °C (pH 5)

100 °C, 85 h

(Kengen et al. 1993)

β-Glucosidase

Oenococcus oeni ST81

40 °C (pH 5)

40 °C, 50 days

(Mesas et al. 2012)

β-Glucosidase

Sphingopyxis alaskensis

50 °C (pH 5.5)

NA

(Shin and Oh 2014)

CMcellulase

Bacillus pumilus S124A

50 °C (pH 6.0)

NA

(Balasubramanian and Simões 2014)

Multi-domain (Hemi)cellulase

Caldicellulosiruptor bescii

72–80 °C (pH 5–6)

NA

(Kanafusa-Shinkai et al. 2013)

  1. NA not analyzed