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. 2022 Dec 6;5:1334. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-04286-9

Table 4.

The thermal stabilities and other enzymatic properties of reported thermally stable glucose dehydrogenases (GDHs).

EC Organism Km kcat Vmax melting temp (°C) treatment temp (°C) Halflife Ref.
BcGDH wt
 1.1.5.9 Burkholderia cepacia 65 2.5 min 30 min, 10% 5,18
65 72 min (crosslinked)
glucose 1-dehydrogenase [NAD(P)+]
1.1.1.47 Thermoproteus tenax 202 U mg−1 specific 103 10 min 32
Thermoplasma acidophilum 320 U mg−1 specific 75 3 h catalytic activity is retained for 9 h at 55 °C 33
Bacillus subtilis 293 mM 720 s−1 70 30 min, 20% 63
Bacillus subtilis 14 mM 395 s−1 50.2 64
Bacillus thuringiensis 0.55 mM 11.4 U mg−1 65 30 min, > 85% 65
Bacillus thuringiensis 93 U mg−1 72.2 65 8.0 min 64
Bacillus licheniformis 0.05 U mg−1 70.3 65 8.7 min 64
Priestia megaterium 11 / 63 mM (pH6 /8) 320 / 820 U mg−1 65 20 min, 20% 66
Priestia megaterium 3.1 / 12 mM (pH6 /8) 230 / 810 U mg−1 65 40 min, 70% 66
Sulfurisphaera tokodaii 32 U mg−1 specific 80 15 min, more than 90% remaining activity, pH 8.0 34
glucose 1-dehydrogenase (NADP+)
 1.1.1.119 Haloferax mediterranei 3.9 mM 550 U mg−1 specific 65 56.8 h (3 M NaCl) 35
aldose 1-dehydrogenase (NAD(P)(+))
 1.1.1.359 Saccharolobus solfataricus 8.0 mM(NAD) 0.44 mM (NADP) 437 U mg−1 specific 37 40 days 36
glucose 1-dehydrogenase (PQQ, quinone)
1.1.5.2 Pyrobaculum aerophilum 680 mM 4.1 s−1 100 10 min, 100% 37
Sorangium cellulosum 2.4 mM 1778 s−1 60 1 h, 27% 67
Arthrobacter globiformis 0.21 mM 192 U mg−1 50 10 min, above 58% 68
Acinetobacter calcoaceticus 24 mM 3300 U mg−1 3436 s−1 55 9.5 min wild-type isozyme PQQGDH-B: half-life 9.5 min 69
Acinetobacter calcoaceticus 16 mM (S415C) 3461 s−1 (S415C) 70 10 min, 90% (mutant S415C) 69
Escherichia coli 2.8 mM 116 U mg−1 51 10 min 70
glucose 1-dehydrogenase (FAD, quinone)
1.1.5.9 Thermoascus aurantiacus 1.7 mM ~36.7 U mg−1 60 5 min, ~ 100% 71
Thermoascus crustaceus 282 mM ~225 U mg−1 62.5 60 15 min, 75% (glycosylated) 72
Rasamsonia emersonii 337 mM ~147 U mg−1 66.4 60 15 min, 89% (glycosylated) 72
Aspergillus terreus 89.7 mM 541 U mg−1 specific 60 82 min 73