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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography2014

A novel member of glycoside hydrolase family 30 subfamily 8 with altered substrate specificity.

Franz J St John, Diane Dietrich, Casey Crooks, Edwin Pozharski, Javier M González, Elizabeth Bales, Kennon Smith, Jason C Hurlbert

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Franz J St JohnForest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Diane DietrichForest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Casey CrooksForest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Edwin PozharskiDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA.
Javier M GonzálezBioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
Elizabeth BalesDepartment of Chemistry, Physics and Geology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA.
Kennon SmithDepartment of Chemistry, Physics and Geology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA.
Jason C HurlbertDepartment of Chemistry, Physics and Geology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA.
Forest Products Laboratory · USWinthrop University · USLos Alamos National Laboratory · US

Funding

Supplement for South Carolina BRIN - 1P20 RR16461P20RR016461 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI PIRISI-CREEK, LUCIA AMELIA · 2001 to 2011
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NCRR NIH HHS 5 P20 RR016461NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR016461
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endoxylanases classified into glycoside hydrolase family 30 subfamily 8 (GH30-8) are known to hydrolyze the hemicellulosic polysaccharide glucuronoxylan (GX) but not arabinoxylan or neutral xylooligosaccharides. This is owing to the specificity of these enzymes for the α-1,2-linked glucuronate (GA) appendage of GX. Limit hydrolysis of this substrate produces a series of aldouronates each containing a single GA substituted on the xylose penultimate to the reducing terminus. In this work, the structural and biochemical characterization of xylanase 30A from Clostridium papyrosolvens (CpXyn30A) is presented. This xylanase possesses a high degree of amino-acid identity to the canonical GH30-8 enzymes, but lacks the hallmark β8-α8 loop region which in part defines the function of this GH30 subfamily and its role in GA recognition. CpXyn30A is shown to have a similarly low activity on all xylan substrates, while hydrolysis of xylohexaose revealed a competing transglycosylation reaction. These findings are directly compared with the model GH30-8 enzyme from Bacillus subtilis, XynC. Despite its high sequence identity to the GH30-8 enzymes, CpXyn30A does not have any apparent specificity for the GA appendage. These findings confirm that the typically conserved β8-α8 loop region of these enzymes influences xylan substrate specificity but not necessarily β-1,4-xylanase function.

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Amino Acid SequenceBacillus subtilisClostridiumCrystallography, X-RayModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataProtein ConformationSequence AlignmentSubstrate SpecificityXylosidasesXylosidasesglycoside hydrolase family 30low-value biomasswildfirexylanase

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PMID25372685
PMCPMC4722856
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