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. 2012 Dec 11;3(6):e00508-12. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00508-12

TABLE 2 .

Soluble sugar yields obtained after enzymatic degradation on untreated and pretreated wheat straw samples

Enzyme % of dry matter
Untreated wheat
straw
Chemically treated
wheat straw
Biologically treated
wheat straw
Wild-type enzymes 8 ± 1 37 ± 5 50 ± 6
Hexavalent designer cellulosomes 11 ± 2 15 ± 0.5 28 ± 3
C. thermocellum cellulosomes 22 ± 4 93 ± 7 61 ± 0.5