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FEBS JOURNAL
Volume 276, Issue 4, Pages 1048-1058Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06848.x
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beta-1; 3 glucan specificity; crystal structure; endoglucanase; laminarin; lichenan
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Bacterial and archaeal endo-beta-1,3-glucanases that belong to glycoside hydrolase family 16 share a beta-jelly-roll fold, but differ significantly in sequence and in substrate specificity. The crystal structure of the laminarinase (EC 3.2.1.39) from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus (pfLamA) has been determined at 2.1 angstrom resolution by molecular replacement. The pfLamA structure reveals a kink of six residues (72-77) at the entrance of the catalytic cleft. This peptide is absent in the endoglucanases from alkaliphilic Nocardiopsis sp. strain F96 and Bacillus macerans, two proteins displaying an overall fold similar to that of pfLamA, but with different substrate specificity. A deletion mutant of pfLamA, lacking residues 72-75, hydrolyses the mixed-linkage beta-1,3-1,4-glucan lichenan 10 times more efficiently than the wild-type protein, indicating the importance of the kink in substrate preference.
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