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The tertiary structure of a bacterial cellulase determined by small-angle X-ray-scattering analysis
I Pilz1, E Schwarz, D G Kilburn
1Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Graz, Austria.
The Biochemical Journal
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
CenA from Cellulomonas fimi is a beta-1,4-endoglucanase that binds tightly to cellulose. X-ray-scattering analyses show that the enzyme is tadpole-shaped: the previously identified catalytic and cellulose-binding domains comprise the head and tail respectively. It appears that this structural and functional organization is common to several cellulases from bacteria and fungi.