title: Sequence of xynC and properties of XynC, a major component of the Clostridium thermocellum cellulosome.
abstract: The nucleotide sequence of the Clostridium thermocellum F1 xynC gene, which encodes the xylanase XynC, consists of 1,857 bp and encodes a protein of 619 amino acids with a molecular weight of 69,517. XynC contains a typical N-terminal signal peptide of 32 amino acid residues, followed by a 165-amino-acid sequence which is homologous to the thermostabilizing domain. Downstream of this domain was a family 10 catalytic domain of glycosyl hydrolase. The C terminus separated from the catalytic domain by a short linker sequence contains a dockerin domain responsible for cellulosome assembly. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of XynC-II, the enzyme purified from a recombinant Escherichia coli strain, was in agreement with that deduced from the nucleotide sequence although XynC-II suffered from proteolytic truncation by a host protease(s) at the C-terminal region. Immunological and N-terminal amino acid sequence analyses disclosed that the full-length XynC is one of the major components of the C. thermocellum cellulosome. XynC-II was highly active toward xylan and slightly active toward p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-xylopyranoside, p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-cellobioside, p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, and carboxymethyl cellulose. The Km and Vmax values for xylan were 3.9 mg/ml and 611 micromol/min/mg of protein, respectively. This enzyme was optimally active at 80 degrees C and was stable up to 70 degrees C at neutral pHs and over the pH range of 4 to 11 at 25 degrees C.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: K I
authors.initials: KI
authors.lastname: Takagi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fukumura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Karita
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohmiya
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D003013:Clostridium / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004926:Escherichia coli; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D043325:Xylan Endo-1,3-beta-Xylosidase; D014995:Xylosidases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D014995:Xylosidases; D043325:Xylan Endo-1,3-beta-Xylosidase