Biochemistry and genetics of actinomycete cellulases
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
The order Actinomycetales includes a number of genera that contain species that actively degrade cellulose and these include both mesophilic and facultative thermophilic species. Cellulases produced by strains from two of the genera containing thermophilic organisms have been studied extensively: Microbispora bispora and Thermomonospora fusca. Fractionation of M. bispora cellulases has identified six different enzymes, all of which were purified to near homogeneity and partially characterized. Two of these enzymes appear to be exocellulases and gave synergism with each other and with the endocellulases. The structural genes of five M. bispora cellulases have been cloned and one was sequenced. Fractionation of T. fusca cellulases has identified five different enzymes, all of which were purified to near homogeneity and partially characterized. One of the T. fusca enzymes gives synergism in the hydrolysis of crystalline cellulose with several T. fusca endocellulases and with Trichoderma reesei CBHI but not with T. reesei CBHII. Each T. fusca cellulase contains distinct catalytic and cellulose binding domains. The structural genes of four of the T. fusca endoglucanases have been cloned and sequenced, while three cellulase genes have been cloned from T. curvata. The T. fusca cellulase genes are expressed at a low level in Escherichia coli, but at a high level in Streptomyces lividans. Sequence comparisons have shown that there are no significant amino acid homologies between any of the catalytic domains of the four T. fusca cellulases, but each of them shows extensive homology to several other cellulases and fits in one of the five existing cellulase gene families. 73 refs., 8 figs., 4 tabs.
- OSTI ID:
- 6976151
- Journal Information:
- CRC Critical Reviews in Biotechnology; (United States), Vol. 12:1-2; ISSN 0738-8551
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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