Table 3. Selected carbohydrate-active gene modules detected in the fungus-cultivating termite gut metagenome.
CAZy family* | Known CAZy Activities§ | Reads in O. yunnanensis |
Cellulases and endohemicellulases | ||
GH5 | Cellulase, β-mannnanse, β-1,3-glucosidase, β-1,4-endoxylanase, others | 67 |
GH8 | Cellulase, endo-1,4-β-xylanase, chitosanase, others | 7 |
GH9 | Endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, β-glucosidase | 59 |
GH10 | Xylanase, β-1,3-endoxylanase | 29 |
GH26 | β-1,3-Xylanase, mannanase | 14 |
GH74 | Endoglucanase; oligoxyloglucan reducing end cellobiohydrolase; xyloglucanase | 23 |
GH113 | β-mannanase | 2 |
GH124 | Endoglucanase | 4 |
Total | 205 (2.8%) | |
Debranching enzymes and Oligosaccharide degrading enzymes | ||
GH1 | β-Glucosidase, β-galactosidase, β-mannosidase | 59 |
GH2 | β-Galactosidase, β-mannosidase, β-glucuronidase | 742 |
GH3 | β-Glucosidase, β-xylosidase, α-L-arabinofuranosidase, others | 183 |
GH4 | α-Glucosidase, α-galactosidase, α-glucuronidase | 35 |
GH27 | α-Galactosidase | 10 |
GH29 | α-L-fucosidase | 145 |
GH30 | Glucosylceramidase, β-1,6-glucanase, β-xylosidase, β-glucosidase | 67 |
GH31 | α-Glucosidase, α-xylosidase | 122 |
GH35 | β-Galactosidase | 20 |
GH36 | α-Galactosidase | 135 |
GH39 | β-Xylosidase, α-L-iduronidase | 23 |
GH42 | β-Galactosidase | 54 |
GH43 | Xylanase, β-xylosidase, α-Larabinofuranosidase, arabinanase | 282 |
GH51 | Endoglucanase, α-L-arabinofuranosidase | 127 |
GH53 | β-1,4-endogalactanase | 5 |
GH67 | α-Glucuronidase | 36 |
GH78 | α-L-rhamnosidase | 225 |
GH93 | Exo-1,5-α-L-arabinanase | 9 |
GH94 | Cellobiose phosphorylase, chitobiose phosphorylase | 60 |
GH97 | α-Glucosidase, α-galactosidase | 162 |
GH106 | α-L-Rhamnosidase | 161 |
GH115 | Xylan α-1,2-glucuronidase, α-(4-O-methyl)-glucuronidase | 31 |
GH116 | Acid β-glucosidase, β-glucosidase, β-xylosidase | 3 |
GH120 | β-Xylosidase | 2 |
GH121 | β-L-arabinobiosidase | 5 |
GH127 | β-L-arabinofuranosidase | 143 |
CE1 | Acetyl xylan esterase, feruloyl esterase, carboxylesterase | 223 |
CE2 | Acetyl xylan esterase | 6 |
CE3 | Acetyl xylan esterase | 26 |
CE5 | Acetyl xylan esterase; cutinase | 1 |
CE6 | Acetyl xylan esterase | 17 |
CE7 | Acetyl xylan esterase, cephalosporin-C deacetylase | 58 |
Total | 3177 (43.9%) | |
Fungal cell wall degrading enzymes | ||
GH18 | Chitinase, endo-b-N-acetylglucosaminidase, non-catalytic proteins | 54 |
GH19 | Chitinase | 6 |
GH20 | β-Hexosaminidase, lacto-N-biosidase | 186 |
GH38 | α-Mannosidase, mannosyl-oligosaccharide α-1,3-1,6-mannosidase and α-1,3-mannosidase | 30 |
GH55 | Exo-1,3-glucanase, endo-1,3-glucanase | 43 |
GH76 | α-1,6-Mannanase | 22 |
GH81 | Endo-β-1,3-glucanase | 7 |
GH85 | Endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase | 2 |
GH92 | Mannosyl-oligosaccharide α-1,2-mannosidase; α-1,3-mannosidase and α-1,6-mannosidase; α-1,2-mannosidase; α-1,3-mannosidase, others | 427 |
GH99 | Glycoprotein endo-α-1,2-mannosidase | 19 |
GH125 | Exo-α-1,6-mannosidase | 56 |
GH128 | β-1,3-glucanase | 1 |
CE4 | Chitin, chitooligosaccharide, peptidoglycan GlcNAc and MurNAc deacetylase | 81 |
Total | 934 (12.9%) |
The carbohydrate-active enzymes database (CAZy), http://www.CAZy.org.
Known CAZy activities were given according to the CAZy database.
Carbohydrate-active enzymes were detected with the set of CAZy family-specific HMMs defined by Yin et al [24], as deposited on dbCAN (http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/dbCAN/), in the BLAST searches (E≤10−4). All identified CAZymes were listed in Table S2. Besides, searches for GHs-associated domains were also performed and indexed in Table S3.