... groups, and depolymerases. The latter can beclassified into lyases (b-elimination) and hydrolases [2].All hydrolases involved in degradation of pectin areclassified as members of family 28 of the ... glycosidehydrolases, including the endopolygalacturonases, exo-polygalacturonases and rhamnogalacturonases [3,4].Although a handful of endopolygalacturonases, gener-ally of fungal origin [5–10], and ... presence of at least two pec-tinase-encoding genes [25]. One of these, PelA, hasbeen characterized in detail as an extracellular exopec-tate lyase, releasing unsaturated trigalacturonate as themajor...