“…However, only seven α‐agarases have been characterized to date, including AgaA from Alteromonas agarilytica GJ1B (Hassairi et al, 2001), AgaA33 from Thalassotalea agarivorans JAMB A33 (Ohta et al, 2005), AgaWS5 from Catenovulum sediminis WS1‐A (Lee et al, 2019), OUC‐GaJJ96 from Gilvimarinus agarilyticus (Jin et al, 2020), CaLJ96 from Catenovulum agarivorans (Liu et al, 2019), and AgaD and AgaE from Thalassomonas sp. LD5 (Wang et al, 2020; J. Xu et al, 2022). All the reported α‐agarases are classified into the GH96 family based on the amino acid sequence similarity.…”