And, its kcat/Km value for amylose was 3-fold higher than that for amylopectin,
which locates the enzyme characteristics between those of the
cyclomaltodextrinase from alkalophilic B. sp. I-5 (15.87-fold) (Auh et al.,
2006) and the maltogenic amylase from S. marinus (2.48-fold) (Jung
et al., 2012). One-way ANOVA (F(1, 4) = 46.77, P = 0.0024) showed
that there were highly significant differences between the kcat/Km values for amylose and amylopectin, indicating a unique substrate preference of TfMA for amylose over amylopectin.