Table 1.
Characteristics of heterogeneously expressed β-glucosidases isolated from different types of organisms
| Type of organism | Source organism | Expression host | Mol. Mass (kDa) | No. of Amino acids | pH optima | Temp. optima (°C) | GH family | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacteria | Acetobacter xylinum | E. coli | 79 | 739 | – | – | GH3 | Tajima et al. (2001) |
| Vibrio cholera | E. coli | 65 | 574 | 6.0–6.5 | 37–42 | GH9 | Park et al. (2002) | |
| Thermus flavus | E. coli | 49 | 431 | 5.0–6.0 | 80–90 | GH1 | Kang et al. (2005) | |
| Thermus thermophiles | E. coli | 48.7 | 431 | 8.5 | 90 | GH1 | Gu et al. (2009) | |
| Exiguobacterium oxidotolerans | E. coli | 51.6 | 448 | 7 | 35 | GH1 | Chen et al. (2010a) | |
| Cellulomonas biazotea | E. coli | 48 | 447 | – | – | GH1 | Chan et al. (2011) | |
| Exiguobacterium sp. | E. coli | 52 | 450 | 7.0 | 45 | GH1 | Chang et al. (2011) | |
| Micrococcus antarcticus | E. coli | 48 | 472 | 6.5 | 25 | GH1 | Fan et al. (2011b) | |
| Sphingomonas sp. | E. coli | 49.3 | 447 | 5.0 | 37 | GH1 | Wang et al. (2011) | |
| Bacillus licheniformis | E. coli | 53 | 466 | 6 | 50 | GH1 | Zahoor et al. (2011) | |
| Bacillus licheniformis | E. coli | 52.2 | – | 6.0 | 60 | GH16 | Aftab et al. (2012) | |
| Fervidobacterium islandicum | E. coli | 53.41 | 459 | 6.0–7.0 | 90 | GH1 | Jabbour et al. (2012) | |
| Yeast | Candida wickerhamii | E. coli | 72 | – | 7 | 37–40 | GH1 | Skory and Freer (1995) |
| Pichia etchellsii | E. coli | 50 | – | 6.5–7.0 | 50 | – | Pandey and Mishra (1997) | |
| Pichia etchellsii | E. coli | 52.1 | 504 | 7–9 | 45 | GH1 | Roy et al. (2005) | |
| Other Fungi | Piromyces sp. | Pichia pastoris | 75.8 | – | 6.0 | 39 | GH1 | Harhangi et al. (2002) |
| Uromyces fabae | – | 92.4 | 843 | – | – | GH3 | Haerter and Voegele (2004) | |
| Sclerotinia sclerotiorum | – | – | 5.0 | 55–60 | – | Issam et al. (2004) | ||
| Talalaromyces emersonii | Trichoderma reesei | 90.59 | 857 | 4.02 | 71.5 | GH3 | Murray et al. (2004) | |
| Thermoascus aurantiacus | Pichia pastoris | – | – | 5.0 | 70 | GH3 | Hong et al. (2007) | |
| Aspergillus fumigatus | Pichia pastoris | 91.47 | – | 6.0 | 60 | GH3 | Liu et al. (2012a) | |
| Neosartorya fischeri | E. coli | – | 529 | 6.0 | 40 | GH1 | Ramachandrana et al. (2012) | |
| Animal/insects | Human liver | Pichia pastoris | 53 | 496 | 6.5 | 50 | GH1 | Berrin et al. (2002) |
| Bombyx mori | 57 | 491 | 6.0 | 35 | GH1 | Byeon et al. (2005) | ||
| Reticulitermes santonensis | E. coli | – | – | 6.0 | 40 | GH1 | Matteotti et al. (2011) | |
| Macrotermes barneyi | E. coli | 54 | 493 | 5.0 | 50 | GH1 | Wu et al. (2012) | |
| Miscanthus sinensis | E. coli | 85 | 779 | 5.0 | 38 | GH3 | Li et al. (2014) | |
| Plant | Pinus contorta | E. coli | – | 513 | – | – | GH1 | Dharmawardhana et al. (1999) |
| Rauvolfia serpentine | E. coli | 61 | 540 | 5.0 | 28 | GH1 | Warzecha et al. (2000) | |
| Glycine max | E. coli | 58 | 7.0 | 30 | GH1 | Suzuki et al. (2006) |