Table 4.
CAZome of bacterial isolates for the major carbohydrate esterase (CE) and polysaccharide lyase (PL) families involved in degradation of plant cell walls.
| CAZy Family | Major Known Activity |
B. theta VPI-5482 |
B. theta CMU13 |
B. theta CMU108 |
B. ovatus ATCC8483 |
B. ovatus CMU19 |
B. ovatus CMU33 |
B. fragilis CMU36 |
B. fragilis CMU103 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polysaccharide lyases | |||||||||
| PL22 | oligogalacturonate/oligogalacturonide lyase | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| PL9 | pectate lyase | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| PL10 | pectate lyase | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| PL26 | rhamnogalacturonan exolyase | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| PL1 | pectate lyase | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PL2 | pectate lyase | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PL3 | pectate lyase | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PL4 | rhamnogalacturonan endolyase | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 9 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | |
| Carbohydrate esterases | |||||||||
| CE6 | acetyl xylan esterase | 1 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 17 | 17 | 3 | 3 |
| CE12 | pectin acetylesterase | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| CE4 | chitin deacetylase | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| CE8 | pectin methylesterase | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 6 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 35 | 35 | 5 | 5 | |
Underlined and bolded values highlight CAZy families with more members in the CM isolates than the wild-type strains (B. theta VPI-5482 and B. ovatus ATCC8483).