Engineering of a multifunctional hemicellulase
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High Throughput Screening of Fungal Endoglucanase Activity in Escherichia coli
Published on: August 13, 2011
Zhanmin Fan1, Joshua R Werkman, Ling Yuan
1Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA.
Abstract:
To engineer a multifunctional xylan-degrading enzyme, a chimera was created by fusing the xylanase domain of the Clostridium thermocellum xylanase (xynZ) and a dual functional arabinofuranosidase/xylosidase (DeAFc; from a compost starter mixture) through a flexible peptide linker. The xylanase domain of xynZ possesses previously unreported endoglucanase activity. The chimera, possessing the activities of xylanase, endoglucanase, arabinofuranosidase and xylosidase, was expressed in E. coli and purified. The chimera closely resembled the parental enzymes in pH, temperature optima and kinetics, and was more active than the parental enzyme mixture in the hydrolysis of natural xylans and corn stover.
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