title: Isolation, characterization, and analysis of the expression of the cbhII gene of Phanerochaete chrysosporium.
abstract: Two cDNA sequences representing putative allelic variants of the Phanerochaete chrysosporium cbhII gene were isolated by hybridization to the Trichoderma reesei cbhII gene. Both of the equivalent genomic sequences were subsequently isolated by the inverse PCR technique. DNA sequencing showed that the cbhII open reading frame of 1,380 bp codes for a putative polypeptide of 460 amino acids which is interrupted by six introns. The domain structure found in T. reesei cbhII is conserved in the equivalent P. chrysosporium protein. The overall similarity between the two gene products is 54%, with the region of highest conservation being found in the cellulose-binding domain (65%). Unlike the cbhI gene of P. chrysosporium, cbhII does not appear to be a member of a class of closely related genes. CBHII is a new member of family B of the beta-1, 4-glucanases. Alignment of the P. chrysosporium and T. reesei CBHII protein sequences showed that all of the residues important for the formation of the extended loops of the catalytic domain and those residues that are involved in the catalytic action of the T. reesei enzyme are also present in the P. chrysosporium equivalent. The profiles of cbh gene expression in P. chrysosporium reveal that while cbhI.1 and cbhI.2 could be coregulated, cbhII can be independently controlled. The latter is so far the only cellulase gene found to be expressed when the fungus is grown on oat spelt arabinoxylan, suggesting that it may play an active role in the xylanolytic as well as the cellulolytic systems.
authors: Department of Biochemistry and Applied Molecular Biology, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom.
authors: C A
authors: CA
authors: Tempelaars
authors: P R
authors: PR
authors: Birch
authors: P F
authors: PF
authors: Sims
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Broda
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D001487:Basidiomycota / Q000235:genetics*; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D043366:Cellulose 1,4-beta-Cellobiosidase; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D015723:Gene Library; D005800:Genes, Fungal / Q000235:genetics*; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; D043366:Cellulose 1,4-beta-Cellobiosidase