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ArticleBiotechnology letters2024

Transesterification with CE15 glucuronoyl esterase from Cerrena unicolor reveals substrate preferences.

Valentina Perna, Jane Wittrup Agger

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Article in Biotechnology letters, 2024. 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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  1. Novel Basidiomycetous Alcohol Oxidase fromInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Valentina PernaDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, 2800, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8151-5951
Jane Wittrup AggerDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, 2800, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark. jaag@dtu.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7796-3089
Technical University of Denmark · DK

Funding

Novo Nordisk Fonden NNF22OC0074634
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeGlucuronoyl esterases (GE, family CE15) catalyse the cleavage of ester linkages in lignin-carbohydrate complexes (LCCs), and this study demonstrate how transesterification reactions with a fungal GE from Cerrena unicolor (CuGE) can reveal the enzyme's preference for the alcohol-part of the ester-bond.

methodsThis alcohol-preference relates to where the ester-LCCs are located on the lignin molecule, and has consequences for how the enzymes potentially interact with lignin. It is unknown exactly what the enzymes prefer; either the α-benzyl or the γ-benzyl position. By providing the enzyme with a donor substrate (the methyl ester of either glucuronate or 4-O-methyl-glucuronate) and either one of two acceptor molecules (benzyl alcohol or 3-phenyl-1-propanol) we demonstrate that the enzyme can perform transesterification and it serves as a method for assessing the enzyme's alcohol preferences.

conclusionCuGE preferentially forms the γ-ester from the methyl ester of 4-O-methyl-glucuronate and 3-phenyl-1-propanol and the enzyme's substrate preferences are primarily dictated by the presence of the 4-O-methylation on the glucuronoyl donor, and secondly on the type of alcohol.

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EsterasesLigninPolyporalesPropanolsCarbohydratesEstersGlucuronatesSubstrate Specificity3-phenylpropanol-1CarbohydratesEsterasesEstersGlucuronatesLigninPropanolsGlucuronoyl esteraseLignin-carbohydrate complexesSubstrate specificityTransesterification

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PMID38150097
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