title: Production of heterologous and chimeric scaffoldins by Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824.
abstract: Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 converts sugars and various polysaccharides into acids and solvents. This bacterium, however, is unable to utilize cellulosic substrates, since it is able to secrete very small amounts of cellulosomes. To promote the utilization of crystalline cellulose, the strategy we chose aims at producing heterologous minicellulosomes, containing two different cellulases bound to a miniscaffoldin, in C. acetobutylicum. A first step toward this goal describes the production of miniCipC1, a truncated form of CipC from Clostridium cellulolyticum, and the hybrid scaffoldin Scaf 3, which bears an additional cohesin domain derived from CipA from Clostridium thermocellum. Both proteins were correctly matured and secreted in the medium, and their various domains were found to be functional.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines, IBSM, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Perret
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Casalot
authors.forename: H-P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Fierobe
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tardif
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sabathe
authors.forename: J-P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Belaich
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Belaich
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D002480:Cellulase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D002482:Cellulose / Q000378:metabolism*; D003013:Clostridium / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; C080369:CipA protein, Clostridium; C098847:CipC protein, Clostridium cellulolyticum; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D002482:Cellulose; D002480:Cellulase