Journal
NEW BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages 31-41Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2021.07.004
Keywords
beta-xylanase; CBM family 2; CBM family 3; Bio Molecular Welding; Spatial proximity
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This study focuses on investigating carbohydrate-binding modules using the Jo-In biomolecular welding protein pair. By creating recombinant xylanase variants appended to different carbohydrate-binding modules, the research reveals biochemical properties and lays the foundation for understanding the correlation between enzyme activity and substrate properties.
Irrespective of their biological origin, most proteins are composed of several elementary domains connected by linkers. These domains are either functionally independent units, or part of larger multidomain structures whose functions are defined by their spatial proximity. Carbohydrate-degrading enzymes provide examples of a range of multidomain structures, in which catalytic protein domains are frequently appended to one or more non-catalytic carbohydrate-binding modules which specifically bind to carbohydrate motifs. While the carbohydrate-binding specificity of these modules is clear, their function is not fully elucidated. Herein, an original approach to tackle the study of carbohydrate-binding modules using the Jo-In biomolecular welding protein pair is presented. To provide a proof of concept, recombinant xylanases appended to two different carbohydrate-binding modules have been created and produced. The data reveal the biochemical properties of four xylanase variants and provide the basis for correlating enzyme activity to structural properties and to the nature of the substrate and the ligand specificity of the appended carbohydrate-binding module. It reveals that specific spatial arrangements favour activity on soluble polymeric substrates and that activity on such substrates does not predict the behaviour of multimodular enzymes on insoluble plant cell wall samples. The results highlight that the Jo-In protein welding system is extremely useful to design multimodular enzyme systems, especially to create rigid conformations that decrease the risk of intermodular interference. Further work on Jo-In will target the introduction of varying degrees of flexibility, providing the means to study this property and the way it may influence multimodular enzyme functions.
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