Table 1. Bacterial strains and vectors used in this study.

Bacterial strains and vectors	Description	Source
Strains
B. tequilensis BD69 (Nucleotide accession # MF767893)	Wild type, able to degrade cellulose	Isolated from indigenous buffalo dung samples
DH10β (High efficiency)	Competent cells	New England Biolabs (USA)
E. coli BL21 (DE3) pLysS	Expression host	Promega (USA)
Pichia pastoris GS115	Expression host	Thermo Fisher Scientific (USA)
Vectors
pET-30a(+)	Expression vector	Novagen (Germany)
pPIC9K	Expression vector	Thermo Fisher Scientific (USA)
pET-Bteqβgluc	Recombinant expression vector, Bteqβgluc gene cloned into the pET-30a(+) vector	Developed in this study
pPIC-Bteqβgluc	Recombinant expression vector, Bteqβgluc gene cloned into the pPIC9K vector	Developed in this study