title: Sequence conservation and region shuffling in an endoglucanase and an exoglucanase from Cellulomonas fimi.
abstract: Cellulomonas fimi produces an endoglucanase and an exoglucanase which bind strongly to cellulose. Each enzyme contains three distinct regions: a short sequence of about 20 amino acids containing only proline and threonine (the Pro-Thr box); an irregular region, rich in hydroxyamino acids, of low charge density, and which is predicted to have little secondary structure; and an ordered region of higher charge density which contains a potential active site, and which is predicted to have secondary structure. The Pro-Thr box is conserved almost perfectly in the two enzymes. The irregular regions are 50% conserved, and the conserved sequences include four Asn-Xaa-Ser/Thr sites. The ordered regions appear not to be conserved, but the potential active sites both have the sequence Glu-Xaa7-Asn-Xaa6-Thr; they occur at widely separated sites in the two regions. The order of the regions is reversed in the two enzymes: irregular-Pro-Thr box-ordered in the endoglucanase; ordered-Pro-Thr box-irregular in the exoglucanase. The genes for the two enzymes appear to have arisen by shuffling of two conserved sequences and either one or two other sequences.
mesh_terms: D000192:Actinomycetales / Q000235:genetics*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002480:Cellulase / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D043326:Glucan 1,3-beta-Glucosidase; D005959:Glucosidases / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D001617:beta-Glucosidase / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D005959:Glucosidases; D001617:beta-Glucosidase; D002480:Cellulase; D043326:Glucan 1,3-beta-Glucosidase