Research Article

Soluble Production, Characterization, and Structural Aesthetics of an Industrially Important Thermostable β-Glucosidase from Clostridium thermocellum in Escherichia coli

Table 4

Secondary structure predictions of BglA by CD spectroscopy and comparison with other models.

ModelsAlpha helix (%)Beta sheets (%)

CD spectroscopy (BglA)43.5010.60
X-ray crystallography (PDB ID: 5OGZ)43.6315.57
Homology-based predicted model42.1114.86
Sequence-based prediction (Mufold)43.9013.80