title: Assembly of xylanases into designer cellulosomes promotes efficient hydrolysis of the xylan component of a natural recalcitrant cellulosic substrate.
abstract: In nature, the complex composition and structure of the plant cell wall pose a barrier to enzymatic degradation. Nevertheless, some anaerobic bacteria have evolved for this purpose an intriguing, highly efficient multienzyme complex, the cellulosome, which contains numerous cellulases and hemicellulases. The rod-like cellulose component of the plant cell wall is embedded in a colloidal blend of hemicelluloses, a major component of which is xylan. In order to enhance enzymatic degradation of the xylan component of a natural complex substrate (wheat straw) and to study the synergistic action among different xylanases, we have employed a variation of the designer cellulosome approach by fabricating a tetravalent complex that includes the three endoxylanases of Thermobifida fusca (Xyn10A, Xyn10B, and Xyn11A) and an Xyl43A β-xylosidase from the same bacterium. Here, we describe the conversion of Xyn10A and Xyl43A to the cellulosomal mode. The incorporation of the Xyl43A enzyme together with the three endoxylanases into a common designer cellulosome served to enhance the level of reducing sugars produced during wheat straw degradation. The enhanced synergistic action of the four xylanases reflected their immediate juxtaposition in the complex, and these tetravalent xylanolytic designer cellulosomes succeeded in degrading significant (~25%) levels of the total xylan component of the wheat straw substrate. The results suggest that the incorporation of xylanases into cellulosome complexes is advantageous for efficient decomposition of recalcitrant cellulosic substrates--a distinction previously reserved for cellulose-degrading enzymes.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Xylanases are important enzymes for our society, due to their variety of industrial applications. Together with cellulases and other glycoside hydrolases, xylanases may also provide cost-effective conversion of plant-derived cellulosic biomass into soluble sugars en route to biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels. Xylanases are commonly found in multienzyme cellulosome complexes, produced by anaerobic bacteria, which are considered to be among the most efficient systems for degradation of cellulosic biomass. Using a designer cellulosome approach, we have incorporated the entire xylanolytic system of the bacterium Thermobifida fusca into defined artificial cellulosome complexes. The combined action of these designer cellulosomes versus that of the wild-type free xylanase system was then compared. Our data demonstrated that xylanolytic designer cellulosomes displayed enhanced synergistic activities on a natural recalcitrant wheat straw substrate and could thus serve in the development of advanced systems for improved degradation of lignocellulosic material.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moraïs
authors.forename: Yoav
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Barak
authors.forename: Yitzhak
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hadar
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Yuval
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shoham
authors.forename: Raphael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lamed
authors.forename: Edward A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Bayer
mesh_terms: D000192:Actinomycetales / Q000201:enzymology; D044603:Cellulosomes / Q000378:metabolism*; D043364:Endo-1,4-beta Xylanases / Q000378:metabolism*; D006868:Hydrolysis; D018547:Plant Stems / Q000378:metabolism; D055503:Protein Multimerization; D014908:Triticum / Q000378:metabolism; D014990:Xylans / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D014990:Xylans; D043364:Endo-1,4-beta Xylanases
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