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- * Cellulose-binding domain, bacterial type *
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- The microbial degradation of cellulose and xylans requires several types of
- enzyme such as endoglucanases (EC 3.2.1.4), cellobiohydrolases (EC 3.2.1.91)
- (exoglucanases), or xylanases (EC 3.2.1.8) [1].
-
- Structurally, cellulases and xylanases generally consist of a catalytic
- domain joined to a cellulose-binding domain (CBD) by a short linker sequence
- rich in proline and/or hydroxy-amino acids.
-
- The CBD of a number of bacterial cellulases has been shown to consist of about
- 105 amino acid residues [2]. Enzymes known to contain such a domain are:
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- - Endoglucanase (gene end1) from Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens.
- - Endoglucanases A (gene cenA) and B (cenB) from Cellulomonas fimi.
- - Endoglucanase A (gene celA) from Microbispora bispora.
- - Endoglucanases A (gene celA), B (celB) and C (celC) from Pseudomonas
- fluorescens.
- - Endoglucanase A (gene celA) from Streptomyces lividans.
- - Exocellobiohydrolase (gene cex) from Cellulomonas fimi.
- - Xylanases A (gene xynA) and B (xynB) from Pseudomonas fluorescens.
- - Arabinofuranosidase C (EC 3.2.1.55) (xylanase C) (gene xynC) from
- Pseudomonas fluorescens.
- - Chitinase 63 (EC 3.2.1.14) from Streptomyces plicatus.
- - Chitinase C from Streptomyces lividans.
-
- The CBD domain is found either at the N-terminal or at the C-terminal
- extremity of these enzymes. As it is shown in the following schematic
- representation, there are two conserved cysteines in this CBD domain - one at
- each extremity of the domain - which have been shown [3] to be involved in a
- disulfide bond. There are also four conserved tryptophan residues which could
- be involved in the interaction of the CBD with polysaccharides.
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- xCxxxxWxxxxxNxxxWxxxxxxxWxxxxxxxxWNxxxxxGxxxxxxxxxxCx
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- 'C': conserved cysteine involved in a disulfide bond.
- '*': position of the pattern.
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- -Consensus pattern: W-N-[STAGR]-[STN]-[LIVM]-x(2)-[GST]-x-[GST]-x(2)-[LIVMF]-
- G-[LIVMF]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
-
- -Expert(s) to contact by email: Henrissat B.
- bernie@cermav.grenet.fr
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- -Last update: June 1994 / Text revised.
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- [ 1] Gilkes N.R., Henrissat B., Kilburn D.G., Miller R.C. Jr., Warren R.A.J.
- Microbiol. Rev. 55:303-315(1991).
- [ 2] Meinke A., Gilkes N.R., Kilburn D.G., Miller R.C. Jr., Warren R.A.J.
- Protein Seq. Data Anal. 4:349-353(1991).
- [ 3] Gilkes N.R., Claeyssens M., Aebersold R., Henrissat B., Meinke A.,
- Morrison H.D., Kilburn D.G., Warren R.A.J., Miller R.C. Jr.
- Eur. J. Biochem. 202:367-377(1991).
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