Carbohydrate-active enzymes from the zygomycete fungus Rhizopus oryzae: a highly specialized approach to carbohydrate degradation depicted at genome level

Table 1 Comparative analysis of the number of putative genes in the 5 Carbohydrate-Active Enzyme http://www.cazy.org categories in 15 representative fungal genomes.

phylum	species	GH	GT	PL	CE	CBM	total	reference
Zygomycota	Rhizopus oryzae	116	130	6	41	24	317	[12]
	Ustilago maydis	102	64	1	18	12	197	[77]
	Postia placenta	248	102	8	25	34	417	[16]
Basidiomycota	Phanerochaete chrysosporium	181	66	4	17	48	316	[78]
	Laccaria bicolor	163	88	7	17	26	301	[17]
	Schizophyllum commune	237	75	16	30	30	388	[79]
	Saccharomyces cerevisiae	46	68	0	3	12	129
	Hypocrea jecorina	193	93	6	17	48	357
	Nectria haematococca	331	132	33	44	64	604	[80]
	Gibberella zeae	247	102	21	44	67	481	[81]
	Podospora anserina	226	86	7	41	97	457	[15]
Ascomycota	Chaetomium globosum	264	96	15	41	83	499
	Magnaporthe grisea	232	92	5	47	65	441	[82]
	Aspergillus fumigatus	267	103	14	33	57	474	[83]
	Aspergillus oryzae	293	115	23	30	34	495	[84]
	Aspergillus niger	243	110	8	24	40	425	[85]
	Penicilium chrysogenum	216	101	9	22	49	397	[86]
	Aspergillus nidulans	251	91	21	31	41	435	[87]

GH: glycoside hydrolases, GT: glycosyl transferases, PL: polysaccharide lyases, CE: carbohydrate esterases, CBM: carbohydrate-binding modules in 15 fungal species. Numbers of P. placenta were from a dikaryotic strain (possibly 2 alleles per gene).

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