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Background  β-Glucosidase is an important member of the biomass-degrading enzyme system, and plays vital roles in enzymatic saccharification for biofuels production. Candidates with high activity and great stability over high temperature and varied pHs are always preferred in industrial practice. To achieve cost-effective biomass conversion, exploring natural enzymes, developing high level expression systems and engineering superior mutants are effective approaches commonly used.    Results  A newly identified β-glucosidase of GH3, Bgl3A, from  Talaromyces leycettanus  JCM12802, was overexpressed in yeast strain  Pichia pastoris  GS115, yielding a crude enzyme activity of 6000 U/ml in a 3 L fermentation tank. The purified enzyme exhibited outstanding enzymatic properties, including favorable temperature and pH optima (75 °C and pH 4.5), good thermostability (maintaining stable at 60 °C), and high catalytic performance (with a specific activity and catalytic efficiency of 905 U/mg and 9096/s/mM on  p NPG, respectively). However, the narrow stability of Bgl3A at pH 4.0–5.0 would limit its industrial applications. Further site-directed mutagenesis indicated the role of excessive  O -glycosylation in pH liability. By removing the potential  O -glycosylation sites, two mutants showed improved pH stability over a broader pH range (3.0–10.0). Besides, with better stability under pH 5.0 and 50 °C compared with wild type Bgl3A, saccharification efficiency of mutant M1 was improved substantially cooperating with cellulase Celluclast 1.5L. And mutant M1 reached approximately equivalent saccharification performance to commercial β-glucosidase Novozyme 188 with identical β-glucosidase activity, suggesting its great prospect in biofuels production.    Conclusions  In this study, we overexpressed a novel β-glucosidase Bgl3A with high specific activity and high catalytic efficiency in  P. pastoris.  We further proved the negative effect of excessive  O -glycosylation on the pH stability of Bgl3A, and enhanced the pH stability by reducing the  O -glycosylation. And the enhanced mutants showed much better application prospect with substantially improved saccharification efficiency on cellulosic materials.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13068-016-0560-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Engineering a highly active thermophilic β-glucosidase to enhance its pH stability and saccharification performance