Cellulase

CAS:9012-54-8
Product Description:Cellulase refers to a suite of enzymes produced chiefly by fungi, bacteria, and protozoans that catalyze cellulolysis (i.e. the hydrolysis of cellulose). However, there are also cellulases produced by a few other types of organisms, such as some termites and the microbial intestinal symbionts of other termites.[2] Several different kinds of cellulases are known, which differ structurally and mechanistically.
Reaction: Hydrolysis of 1,4-beta-D-glycosidic linkages in cellulose, lichenin and cereal beta-D-glucans.
Other names for 'endoglucanases' are: endo-1,4-beta-glucanase, carboxymethyl cellulase (CMCase), endo-1,4-beta-D-glucanase, beta-1,4-glucanase, beta-1,4-endoglucan hydrolase, and celludextrinase. The other types of cellulases are called exocellulases. The expression 'avicelase' refers almost exclusively to exo-cellulase activity as avicel is a highly micro-crystalline substrate. Cellulase action is considered to be synergistic as all three classes of cellulase can yield much more sugar than the addition of all three separately. Beta-glucosidases can also be considered as yet another group of cellulases.