Table 1. Tranglucosylation activities, between XyGO-SRs (substrate) and a range of commercially available and extracted polysaccharides (donor), present in enzyme extracts from Klebsormidium, Zygnema S and Chara investigated using dot-blot assays.
| XyGO-SR test papers impregnated with donor substrate | Enzyme activity from |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zygnema S | Klebsormidium crenulatum | Chara sp. | |||
| Young cultures | old cultures | young cultures | old cultures | ||
| Xyloglucan | + | + | + | + | + |
| Xylan | ± | ± | - | - | - |
| Mixed linkage glucan | - | ± | - | - | + |
| polygalacturonic acid | - | - | - | - | - |
| xanthan gum | - | - | - | - | - |
| gum arabic | - | - | - | - | - |
| locust bean gum | - | - | - | - | - |
| guar gum | - | - | - | - | - |
| carob galactomannan | + | + | + | + | |
| AGPs (carrot) | ± | - | - | - | |
Key: +, denotes enzyme activity present; -, indicates that enzyme activity not found; ±, indicates low activity; the absence of a symbol denotes that this enzyme activity was not tested for this enzyme extract.