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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 24, Issue 10, Pages 3939-3949Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.10-156257
Keywords
substrate selection and switch; glycoside hydrolase; GH31 family; isomannose binding; carbohydrate metabolism
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- National Institutes of Health [GM074942]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
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The human intestine harbors a large number of microbes forming a complex microbial community that greatly affects the physiology and pathology of the host. In the human gut microbiome, the enrichment in certain protein gene families appears to be widespread. They include enzymes involved in carbohydrate metabolism such as glucoside hydrolases of dietary polysaccharides and glycoconjugates. We report the crystal structures (wild type, 2 mutants, and a mutant/substrate complex) and the enzymatic activity of a recombinant alpha-glucosidase from human gut bacterium Ruminococcus obeum. The first ever protein structures from this bacterium reveal a structural homologue to human intestinal maltase-glucoamylase with a highly conserved catalytic domain and reduced auxiliary domains. The alpha-glucosidase, a member of GH31 family, shows substrate preference for alpha(1-6) over alpha(1-4) glycosidic linkages and produces glucose from isomaltose as well as maltose. The preference can be switched by a single mutation at its active site, suggestive of widespread adaptation to utilization of a variety of polysaccharides by intestinal micro-organisms as energy resources.-Tan, K., Tesar, C., Wilton, R., Keigher, L., Babnigg, G., Joachimiak, A. Novel alpha-glucosidase from human gut microbiome: substrate specificities and their switch. FASEB J. 24, 3939-3949 (2010). www.fasebj.org
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