title: Unusual binding properties of the dockerin module of Clostridium thermocellum endoglucanase CelJ (Cel9D-Cel44A).
abstract: Cellulosomes are cellulolytic complexes produced by anaerobic bacteria, and are composed of a scaffolding protein and several catalytic components. The complexes are formed by highly specific interactions of one of the reiterated cohesin modules of the scaffolding protein with a dockerin module of the catalytic components. The affinities of a dockerin module of Clostridium thermocellum CelJ (Cel9D-Cel44A) for several cohesin modules from C. thermocellum and Clostridium josui scaffolding proteins were quantitatively measured by surface plasmon resonance analysis. The recombinant CelJ dockerin-containing protein interacted with three recombinant C. josui cohesin proteins as well as recombinant C. thermocellum cohesin proteins beyond the so-called 'species specificity' of the dockerin and cohesin interactions. However, this protein did not recognize a second cohesin module from the C. josui scaffolding protein, suggesting that the catalytic components are not necessarily arranged randomly on a scaffolding protein in native cellulosomes.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazutaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakka
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kishino
authors.forename: Yuka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sugihara
authors.forename: Sadanari
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jindou
authors.forename: Makiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakka
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Inagaki
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakka
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D002480:Cellulase / Q000378:metabolism*; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / Q000378:metabolism; D048013:Acetivibrio thermocellus / Q000201:enzymology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D011485:Protein Binding; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance; D000097722:Cohesins
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D002480:Cellulase; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D000097722:Cohesins; C074074:cellulose binding protein A, Clostridium cellulovorans; C101903:CelJ protein, Clostridium thermocellum