Conservation and divergence in cellulosome architecture between two strains of Ruminococcus flavefaciens.
A 17-kb scaffoldin gene cluster in Ruminococcus flavefaciens strain FD-1 was compared with the homologous segment published for strain 17. Although the general design of the cluster is identical in the two strains, significant differences in the modular architecture of the scaffoldin proteins were discovered, implying strain-specific divergence in cellulosome organization.
Jindou
Sadanari
S
Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Borovok
Ilya
I
Rincon
Marco T
MT
Flint
Harry J
HJ
Antonopoulos
Dionysios A
DA
Berg
Margret E
ME
White
Bryan A
BA
Bayer
Edward A
EA
Lamed
Raphael
R
D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D002482:Cellulose / Q000378:metabolism; D044603:Cellulosomes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005810:Multigene Family; D010802:Phylogeny; D045857:Ruminococcus / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D017385:Sequence Homology
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C422913:ScaA protein, Ruminococcus; C422914:ScaB protein, Ruminococcus; D002482:Cellulose