CAZypedia celebrates the life of Senior Curator Emeritus Harry Gilbert, a true giant in the field, who passed away in September 2025.
CAZypedia needs your help!
We have many unassigned pages in need of Authors and Responsible Curators. See a page that's out-of-date and just needs a touch-up? - You are also welcome to become a CAZypedian. Here's how.
Scientists at all career stages, including students, are welcome to contribute.
Learn more about CAZypedia's misson here and in this article. Totally new to the CAZy classification? Read this first.
Glycoside Hydrolase Family 193
This page is currently under construction. This means that the Responsible Curator has deemed that the page's content is not quite up to CAZypedia's standards for full public consumption. All information should be considered to be under revision and may be subject to major changes.
| Glycoside Hydrolase Family GH193 | |
| Clan | GH-S |
| Mechanism | inverting |
| Active site residues | not known |
| CAZy DB link | |
| https://www.cazy.org/GH193.html | |
Substrate specificities
SkSGL(Sked_30460, KEGG) from Sanguibacter kedieii is specific to β-1,2-glucan among polysaccharides. The enzyme hydrolyzes β-1,2-glucan endolytically to produce β-1,2-glucooligosaccharides [1].
Kinetics and Mechanism
SkSGL follows anomer-inverting mechanism, which is determined by measuring change in optical rotation during hydrolysis of β-1,2-glucan [1].
Catalytic Residues
E246(SkSGL) is the putative general acid as this residue is structurally well-superimposed with the general acid (E262) in GH162 β-1,2-glucanase from Talaromyces funiculosus [2].
D160(SkSGL) is one of the candidate for the general base as this residue is a spatially conserved residue shared with several β-1,2-glucanases; GH144 (from Chitinophaga pinensis and Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris) GH192 (from P. gaetbulicola and Endozoicomonas elysicola), and GH194 (from P. gaetbulicala) [1, 3]. However, no complex structure with a substrate is available.
Three-dimensional structures
Currently not determined.
Family Firsts
- First stereochemistry determination
- A bacterial β-1,2-glucanase from S. kedieii by monitoring the change in optical rotation [1].
- First catalytic nucleophile identification
- not known.
- First general acid/base residue identification
- not known.
- First 3-D structure
- not determined.
References
- Nakajima M, Tanaka N, Motouchi S, Kobayashi K, Shimizu H, Abe K, Hosoyamada N, Abara N, Morimoto N, Hiramoto N, Nakata R, Takashima A, Hosoki M, Suzuki S, Shikano K, Fujimaru T, Imagawa S, Kawadai Y, Wang Z, Kitano Y, Nihira T, Nakai H, and Taguchi H. (2025). New glycoside hydrolase families of β-1,2-glucanases. Protein Sci. 2025;34(6):e70147. DOI:10.1002/pro.70147 |
- Tanaka N, Nakajima M, Narukawa-Nara M, Matsunaga H, Kamisuki S, Aramasa H, Takahashi Y, Sugimoto N, Abe K, Terada T, Miyanaga A, Yamashita T, Sugawara F, Kamakura T, Komba S, Nakai H, and Taguchi H. (2019). Identification, characterization, and structural analyses of a fungal endo-β-1,2-glucanase reveal a new glycoside hydrolase family. J Biol Chem. 2019;294(19):7942-7965. DOI:10.1074/jbc.RA118.007087 |
- Abe K, Nakajima M, Yamashita T, Matsunaga H, Kamisuki S, Nihira T, Takahashi Y, Sugimoto N, Miyanaga A, Nakai H, Arakawa T, Fushinobu S, and Taguchi H. (2017). Biochemical and structural analyses of a bacterial endo-β-1,2-glucanase reveal a new glycoside hydrolase family. J Biol Chem. 2017;292(18):7487-7506. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M116.762724 |