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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 289, Issue 4, Pages 2027-2042Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.538843
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Algae; Carbohydrate Metabolism; Crystal Structure; Glycoside Hydrolases; Oligosaccharide; 1; 3-beta-glucan; Family GH16; Laminarinase; Marine Bacteria
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- French National Research Agency [ANR-10-BTBR-04]
- French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
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Laminarinase is commonly used to describe -1,3-glucanases widespread throughout Archaea, bacteria, and several eukaryotic lineages. Some -1,3-glucanases have already been structurally and biochemically characterized, but very few from organisms that are in contact with genuine laminarin, the storage polysaccharide of brown algae. Here we report the heterologous expression and subsequent biochemical and structural characterization of ZgLamA(GH16) from Zobellia galactanivorans, the first GH16 laminarinase from a marine bacterium associated with seaweeds. ZgLamA(GH16) contains a unique additional loop, compared with other GH16 laminarinases, which is composed of 17 amino acids and gives a bent shape to the active site cleft of the enzyme. This particular topology is perfectly adapted to the U-shaped conformation of laminarin chains in solution and thus explains the predominant specificity of ZgLamA(GH16) for this substrate. The three-dimensional structure of the enzyme and two enzyme-substrate complexes, one with laminaritetraose and the other with a trisaccharide of 1,3-1,4--d-glucan, have been determined at 1.5, 1.35, and 1.13 resolution, respectively. The structural comparison of substrate recognition pattern between these complexes allows the proposition that ZgLamA(GH16) likely diverged from an ancestral broad specificity GH16 -glucanase and evolved toward a bent active site topology adapted to efficient degradation of algal laminarin.
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