Dear,
No, LAB such as Lactobacillus are not know to produce cellulase naturally. They can produce some enzymes degrading some glucosides such as beta-glucosidase and others, but not cellulase.
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According to gemone annotations, lactobacilli can have cellullases. For instance, the glycosyl hydrolase (family 8) deposited under the accission number ZP_03996924 in Lactobacillus crispatus. A very similar protein is present also in L. acidophilus.
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Dear all, what are the exepients used for solid formulation of feed enzymes in crude form?
Yeah lacto baclli can have cellulases, as simone says . You can refer annotations for that .
Until now no native LAB has been reported in literature that produce cellulase enzyme naturally. But, as answered by Dr. Simone that genome annotation indicated presence of genes responsible for cellulase in LAB while similar protein is present L. crispatus that function is not like cellulase. As we well aware about the Industrial importance of these group of bacteria. So, lot of research work was carried out to transform LAB with various gene including cellulase to reduce the cost of fungal enzymes used in fermentation for SSF in cellolistic substrate.
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