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Characterization of β‐glucosidase activity in yeasts of oenological origin

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I. ROSI, M. VINELLA AND P. DOMIZIO. 1994. Three hundred and seventeen strains representing 20 species of yeasts were screened for the presence of β-glucosidase activity. All of the strains of the species Debaryomyces castellii, Deb. hansenii, Deb. polymorphus, Kloeckera apiculata and Hansenula anomala showed β-glucosidase activity, but only one of 153 strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The other species behaved differently, depending upon the strain. The strains that hydrolysed arbutin were checked to localize the β-glucosidase activity. A strain of Deb. hansenii exhibited the highest exocellular activity and some wall-bound and intracellular activity. The β-glucosidase synthesis from this yeast was enhanced by aerobic conditions of growth, was repressed by high glucose concentration (9%) and occurred during exponential growth. The optimum conditions for enzymatic preparations of Deb. hansenii were between pH 4.0 and 5.0 and 40dC. A high concentration of ethanol and glucose did not reduce the ezymatic activity. The enzymatic preparations of Deb. hansenii released monoterpenols and other alcohols from a grape glycoside extract.

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The aroma of grapes. I. Extraction and determination of free and glycosidically bound fractions of some grape aroma components

TL;DR: In this paper, a method of extraction and determination of free and glycosidically bound terpenols and of benzyl and 2-phenylethyl alcohols is suggested.
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Hydrolysis of grape monoterpenyl β-D-glucosides by various β-glucosidases

TL;DR: The efficiency of β-D-glucosidases was found to be dependent on the structure of the aglycon and the origin of the enzyme as mentioned in this paper, which was also the case for grape and sweet almond.
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Hydrolysis of grape monoterpenyl glycosides by Candida molischiana and Candida wickerhamii β-glucosidases

TL;DR: The exocellular β-glucosidases of Candida molischiana and Candida wickerhamii are able to hydrolyse geranyl, neryl, citronellyl, linalyl and α-terpinyl-β-Dglucopyranosides as discussed by the authors.
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