title: Cloning, sequence analysis, and expression of genes encoding xylan-degrading enzymes from the thermophile "Caldocellum saccharolyticum".
abstract: A lambda recombinant bacteriophage coding for xylanase and beta-xylosidase activity has been isolated from a genomic library of the extremely thermophilic anaerobe "Caldocellum saccharolyticum." Partial Sau3AI fragments of the lambda recombinant DNA were ligated into pBR322. A recombinant plasmid with an insertion of ca. 7 kilobases of thermophilic DNA expressing both enzymatic activities was isolated. The location of the genes has been established by analyzing deletion derivatives, and the DNA sequence of 6.067 kilobases of the insert has been determined. Five open reading frames (ORFs) were found, one of which (ORF1; Mr 40,455) appears to code for a xylanase (XynA) which also acts on o-nitrophenyl-beta-D-xylopyranoside. Another, ORF5 (Mr 56,365), codes for a beta-xylosidase (XynB). The xynA gene product shows significant homology with the xylanases from the alkalophilic Bacillus sp. strain C125 and Clostridium thermocellum.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lüthi
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Love
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McAnulty
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Caughey
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Saul
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Bergquist
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001421:Bacteria, Anaerobic / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D021382:Protein Sorting Signals / Q000235:genetics; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013696:Temperature; D043325:Xylan Endo-1,3-beta-Xylosidase; D014995:Xylosidases / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D021382:Protein Sorting Signals; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; D014995:Xylosidases; D043325:Xylan Endo-1,3-beta-Xylosidase; C026579:exo-1,4-beta-D-xylosidase