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ArticleProteins2016

Synergistic enhancement of cellulase pairs linked by consensus ankyrin repeats: Determination of the roles of spacing, orientation, and enzyme identity.

Eva S Cunha, Christine L Hatem, Doug Barrick

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Article in Proteins, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
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1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Extreme stability in de novo-designed repeat arrays is determined by unusually stable short-range interactions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Eva S CunhaT.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218.
Christine L HatemT.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218.
Doug BarrickT.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218.
University of Baltimore · USJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

REPEAT-PROTEINS;STABILITY, FOLDING KINETICS &EVOLUTIONR01GM068462 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI BARRICK, DOUGLAS E. · 2005 to 2025
$6.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM068462
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomass deconstruction to small simple sugars is a potential approach to biofuels production; however, the highly recalcitrant nature of biomass limits the economic viability of this approach. Thus, research on efficient biomass degradation is necessary to achieve large-scale production of biofuels. Enhancement of cellulolytic activity by increasing synergism between cellulase enzymes holds promise in achieving high-yield biofuels production. Here we have inserted cellulase pairs from extremophiles into hyperstable α-helical consensus ankyrin repeat domain scaffolds. Such chimeric constructs allowed us to optimize arrays of enzyme pairs against a variety of cellulolytic substrates. We found that endocellulolytic domains CelA (CA) and Cel12A (C12A) act synergistically in the context of ankyrin repeats, with both three and four repeat spacing. The extent of synergy differs for different substrates. Also, having C12A N-terminal to CA provides greater synergy than the reverse construct, especially against filter paper. In contrast, we do not see synergy for these enzymes in tandem with CelK (CK) catalytic domain, a larger exocellulase, demonstrating the importance of enzyme identity in synergistic enhancement. Furthermore, we found endocellulases CelD and CA with three repeat spacing to act synergistically against filter paper. Importantly, connecting CA and C12A with a disordered linker of similar contour length shows no synergistic enhancement, indicating that synergism results from connecting these domains with folded ankyrin repeats. These results show that ankyrin arrays can be used to vary spacing and orientation between enzymes, helping to design and optimize artificial cellulosomes, providing a novel architecture for synergistic enhancement of enzymatic cellulose degradation. Proteins 2016; 84:1043-1054. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnkyrin RepeatBacterial ProteinsBiofuelsBiomassCellulaseCelluloseCellulosomesCloning, MolecularEnzyme AssaysEscherichia coliEubacterialesGene ExpressionModels, MolecularProtein Structure, SecondaryRecombinant ProteinsBacterial ProteinsBiofuelsCellulaseCelluloseRecombinant Proteinsankyrinartificial cellulosomebiofuelscellulaseDNSscaffold

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PMID27071357
PMCPMC5548186
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