enzyme catalysis because the process would minimize environmental
pollution [10,11]. Endoglucanase, exoglucanase, and bglucosidase
perform this saccharification process [12]. Diverse
bacteria and fungi have cellulolytic enzyme activities. Fungi of the
Trichoderma genus are awell-known source of cellulolytic enzymes
and some of these enzymes have been developed as commercial
products [13]. In particular, Cellic® CTec2 (Novozyme) is a commercial
cellulase enzyme mixture that consists of 15e20 enzymes,
including Trichoderma reesei RUT-C30 enzymes.
Here we describe a newly isolated microbe that has excellent
cellulolytic activity relative to a representative commercial strain,
and characterize and evaluate the use of its enzymes for the
saccharification of EFBs from the palm oil industry.