Table 2.

Activity of purified MtBgl3a on polysaccharide substrates. Activity was measured, as described in “Materials and methods” section. Activity not detected for substrates p-α-NPG, p-α-NPGal, wheat arabinoxylan, CMC, Avicel, filter paper and birchwood xylan. The experiment was carried out in triplicates.

Substrate	Specific activity
	(U/mg protein)
p-β-NPG (1 mM)	97.7 ± 1.07
p-β-NPGal (5 mM)	traces
p-NPCell (1 mM)	15.9 ± 0.07
cellobiose (10 mM)	30.7 ± 0.97
laminarin (0.5%)	52.0 ± 2.20
lichenan (1%)	20.6 ± 0.04
barley β-glucan (1%)	12.4 ± 0.18