Hi, some help with this question would be much appreciated!

What enzymes can digest cellulose?

A: mammalian cellulase

B: bacterial cellulase

C: mammalian and bacterial cellulase

Hi, some help with this question would be much appreciated!

What enzymes can digest cellulose?

A: mammalian cellulase

B: bacterial cellulase

C: mammalian and bacterial cellulase

What does the suffix -ase tell you?

What does the suffix -ase tell you?

yeah.. I guess my question really is does mammalian cellulase exist? couldnt find any record of it after extensive searching

Are there any mammalian cellulases?

Edit: Cross posted.

Edited April 22, 20178 yr by John Cuthber

You could google it

 

Then again, what's the point of a forum ...

 

No, we don't have "cellulases". If you eat a lot of e.g. red berries, which have cellulose in their peel, you'd excrete them again - as such. If you don't bite them, don't expect anything of the berry to be absorbed by your intestines. Bacteria might have cellulase, I guess ... But I'm not sure. I'm only certain that we don't.

 

Excessive cellulose ingestion might thus cause an osmotic diarrhoea (I'm not sure if that's written correctly; I find the spelling of that word disturbingly odd).

It depends whether you consider the cellulase is produced by a ruminant or the commensal bacteria within them because you can say "Yes, ruminants can break down cellulose" but, in reality, it's the bacteria. Strictly speaking, mammals can't break it down.

Hi, some help with this question would be much appreciated!

What enzymes can digest cellulose?

A: mammalian cellulase

B: bacterial cellulase

C: mammalian and bacterial cellulase

 

@OP, When you post a question, please give us what you have done so far and your thoughts, as opposed to dumping a problem. However, it is clear from your later comments that you have done some searching.