A new α-l-fucosidase (Alf1_Wf) was purified from marine bacterium W. fucanilytica.
Alf1_Wf was successfully expressed in E. coli and annotated as a GH29-A fucosidase.
It was the first reported GH29-A bacterial fucosidase containing CBM domain.
Alf1_Wf can act on pNP-fucose and slightly on α1,4-fucosidic linkage.
It fails to degrade the fucoidan polysaccharide but can hydrolyze fucoidan fragment.