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. 2020 Apr 29;8:356. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.00356

TABLE 3.

Estimation of potential annual productivity and production costs of CWDEs obtained from different bio-factories.

CWDE Organism Production method Annual enzyme productivity t (m3*y)–1 t (ha*y)1 Production Cost Product value References

€ kg DW1 U €1
Cellulase T. reesei SF 2.6 3.82 ND LOW-VALUE Humbird et al., 2011
ND 9.12 Klein-Marcuschamer et al., 2011
C. thermocellum 36.3 Zhuang et al., 2007
SSF 14.1
N. tabacum (recombinant) C 1.13* 14.3* 0.06x105* Faè et al., 2017/This review
0.32* 50* ND Schmidt et al., 2019/This review
0.81* 20* 246x105* Verma et al., 2010/This review
β-glucosidase N. tabacum (recombinant) 0.46* 35* 73x105* Castiglia et al., 2016/This review
E. coli (recombinant) HDF 0.88 284 ND Ferreira et al., 2018
Xylanase N. tabacum (recombinant) C 0.12* 132* 8.1x105* Castiglia et al., 2016/This review
A. awamori SSF ND 9.36 0.26x105 Machado de Castro et al., 2010
Pectate Lyase N. tabacum (recombinant) C 0.85* 18.9* 1.3x105* Verma et al., 2010/This review
1.14* 14.2* 1.6x105*
EWL G. gallus hen egg-white NA 326* 21.5x107* Chiang et al., 1993/This review
HUL O. sativa (recombinant) RG 0.048* 150* 133x107* Huang et al., 2002a,b/This review
EWL K. lactis (recombinant) HDF+P ND NA 0.14 x107* HIGH-VALUE Huang and Demirci, 2009
egg-white egg-white + P NA 479*+1845 3x107* Wilken and Nikolov, 2011/This review
HUL RG RG + P 273*+1971 8.9x107*

Values reported in the table represent the productivity and production costs of several CWDEs obtained by different biofactories. For data normalization, dry weight (DW) was considered as 10% fresh weight of the tobacco plant biomass. *, values calculated from the available data in the original manuscript. ND, not determined; NA, not applicable. [C, chloroplast expression; EWL, egg-white lysozyme; HDF, high-cell density fermentation; HUL, human lysozyme; P, extraction and purification; RG, rice grains; SF, submerged fermentation; SSF, solid-state fermentation].