Metagenomics revealing molecular profiling of community structure and metabolic pathways in natural hot springs of the Sikkim Himalaya

Table 3 Carbohydrate-Active enZYmes in the Polok and Reshi metagenomes

CAZy Families	Polok		Reshi
CAZy Families	Total CAZymes	Novel putative CAZymes^a	Total CAZymes	Novel putative CAZymes^a
Glycosyl Transferases (GT)	2771	2471	1250	1351
Glycosyl Hydrolases (GH)	2275	1462	1124	754
Carbohydrate Binding Modules (CBM)	1049	675	515	430
Carbohydrate Esterases (CE)	388	514	260	377
Polysaccharide Lyases (PL)	140	50	43	12
Auxiliary activity enzymes (AA)	107	66	94	55
Total count	6730	5238	3286	2979

^aPutative genes exhibiting at least 30% difference at protein level (70% subject coverage cutoff) from the orthologous genes in public domain

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