Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 580, Issue 19, Pages 4597-4601Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.07.033
Keywords
glucuronoyl esterase; methyl ester of 4-O-methyl-D-glucuronic acid; lignin-carbohydrate complex; Schizophyllum commune
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The cellulolytic system of the wood-rotting fungus Schizophyllum commune contains an esterase that hydrolyzes methyl ester of 4-O-methyl-D-glucuronic acid. The enzyme, called glucuronoyl esterase, was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity from a cellulose-spent culture fluid. Its substrate specificity was examined on a number of substrates of other carbohydrate esterases such as acetylxylan esterase, feruloyl esterase and pectin methylesterase. The glucuronoyl esterase attacks exclusively the esters of MeGlcA. The methyl ester of free or glycosidically linked MeGlcA was not hydrolysed by other carbohydrate esterases. The results suggest that we have discovered a new type of carbohydrate esterase that might be involved in disruption of ester linkages connecting hemicellulose and lignin in plant cell walls. (c) 2006 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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