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. 1998 Dec;64(12):4774–4781. doi: 10.1128/aem.64.12.4774-4781.1998

TABLE 4.

High-performance liquid chromatography analysis of products of hydrolysis of cellooligosaccharides by CelB

Substrate Incubation time (min) Concn of reaction products (mM)
Glucose Cellobiose Cellotriose Cellotetrose Cellopentose Cellohexose
Cellobiose 0  —a 5 (100)b
180 5 (100)
Cellotriose 0 5 (100)
10 2.5 (33.3) 2.3 (46) 0.4 (10.6) 0.19 (6.3) 0.09 (3.6)
180 1.9 (12.6) 5 (66.6) 0.96 (19.2) 0.07 (1.8)
Cellotetrose 0 0.1 (1.5) 4.7 (94) 0.15 (3.7) 0.02 (0.6)
10 3.3 (33) 1.7 (25.5) 0.9 (18) 0.46 (11.5) 0.4 (12)
180 2.1 (10.5) 6.2 (62) 1.6 (24) 0.2 (4)
Cellopentose 0 2.2 (100)
10 2.6 (47.2) 1.1 (30) 0.4 (14.5) 0.15 (6.8)
180 1.8 (16.3) 3.6 (65.4) 0.6 (16.3) 0.03 (1)
Cellohexose 0 0.2 (3.2) 0.3 (6.3) 2.85 (90.4)
10 2.1 (22.2) 1.5 (23.8) 0.8 (16.9) 0.5 (13.2) 0.8 (25.4)
180 1.3 (6.9) 4.7 (49.7) 1.5 (23.8) 0.5 (10.5) 0.2 (5.3) 0.06 (1.9)
a

—, not detected. 

b

The numbers in parentheses are the percentages of carbohydrates calculated as glucose.