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'''7 January 2015:'''  ''Love your guts:'' ''CAZypedia'' is ringing in the new year with a new '''[[Glycoside Hydrolase Family 76]]''' page by '''[[User:Spencer Williams|Spencer Williams]]'''.  '''[[GH76]]''' contains endo-acting α-mannanases, including members from the human gut bacterium ''Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron'' that enable us to degrade yeast mannans in our diet.  A very recent publication in ''Nature'', notably involving ''CAZypedia'' contributors '''[[User:Michael Suits|Michael Suits]]''', '''[[User:Al Boraston|Al Boraston]]''', '''[[User:Spencer Williams|Spencer Williams]]''', '''[[User:Gideon Davies|Gideon Davies]]''', '''[[User:Wade Abbott|Wade Abbott]]''', and '''[[User:Harry Gilbert|Harry Gilbert]]''', has recently shed new light on the structure, mechanism, and biological function of these enzymes.  ''Read more [[Glycoside Hydrolase Family 76|here]]!''
 
'''7 January 2015:'''  ''Love your guts:'' ''CAZypedia'' is ringing in the new year with a new '''[[Glycoside Hydrolase Family 76]]''' page by '''[[User:Spencer Williams|Spencer Williams]]'''.  '''[[GH76]]''' contains endo-acting α-mannanases, including members from the human gut bacterium ''Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron'' that enable us to degrade yeast mannans in our diet.  A very recent publication in ''Nature'', notably involving ''CAZypedia'' contributors '''[[User:Michael Suits|Michael Suits]]''', '''[[User:Al Boraston|Al Boraston]]''', '''[[User:Spencer Williams|Spencer Williams]]''', '''[[User:Gideon Davies|Gideon Davies]]''', '''[[User:Wade Abbott|Wade Abbott]]''', and '''[[User:Harry Gilbert|Harry Gilbert]]''', has recently shed new light on the structure, mechanism, and biological function of these enzymes.  ''Read more [[Glycoside Hydrolase Family 76|here]]!''
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'''11 September 2014:'''  ''Another PL family done:'' Today, '''[[User:Richard McLean|Richard McLean]]''' and '''[[User:Wade Abbott|Wade Abbott]]''' finished the '''[[Polysaccharide Lyase Family 22]]''' page, bringing the number of [[Curator Approved]] [[PL]] pages in ''CAZypedia'' to a total of 5 (of 23).  '''[[PL22]]''' is a family of bacterial (and a handful of archeal) oligogalacturonide lyases (OGLs), archetypal members of which are highly specific for digalacturonate and Δ4,5-unsaturated digalacturonate ''i.e.'', they do not cleave polymeric α-(1,4)-linked galacturonan, a component of pectin. [[User:Wade Abbott|Wade]] performed a seminal crystallographic analysis of [[PL22]], and he and [[User:Richard McLean|Richard]] have produced a lucid distillation of the mechanism of catalysis in this family.  ''Read more [[Polysaccharide Lyase Family 22|here]]!''
 
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'''9 September 2014:'''  ''2-for-1 Back to School Special:'' With the start of the new academic year, we are happy to report that two new [[Polysaccharide Lyase Families|Polysaccharide Lyase Family]] pages have recently been completed and given [[Curator Approved]] status.  In August, '''[[User:Naotake Konno|Naotake Konno]]''' and '''[[User:Shinya Fushinobu|Shinya Fushinobu]]''' produced the '''[[Polysaccharide Lyase Family 20]]''' page, which describes this small (currently, 18 member) group of bacterial and fungal beta-(1-4)-glucuronan-cleaving enzymes. ''And'', on the 7th of this month, '''[[User:Sine Larsen|Sine Larsen]]''' and '''[[User:Leila LoLeggio|Leila LoLeggio]]''' composed the '''[[Polysaccharide Lyase Family 4]]''' page.  Currently, '''[[PL4]]''' is only known to contain rhamnogalacturonan lyases involved in pectin degradation, notably including many plant sequences in addition to bacterial and fungal members.  We thank these [[Author]]s and [[Responsible Curator]]s for their contributions and encourage our readers to check out these new pages.
 
 
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Revision as of 08:19, 23 February 2015

23 February 2015: The sites that bind us: Birte Svensson and Darrell Cockburn have completed the Surface Binding Site page within the CAZypedia Lexicon. Surface binding sites are substrate-binding regions found on the catalytic domain of carbohydrate-active enzymes and appear to play complementary roles to carbohydrate-binding modules in facilitating the action of polysaccharide-degrading glycoside hydrolases. Read more about these intriguing features and their distribution among CAZymes here.


19 January 2015: Still in the high 70's today: Zui Fujimoto brought the Glycoside Hydrolase Family 78 page up to Curator Approved status today, making it CAZypedia's 97th approved GH page. GH78 is a family of archaeal, bacterial, and fungal alpha-L-rhamnosidases that cleave diverse flavonoid glycosides, polysaccharides, glycoproteins, and glycolipids from plants. Read more on these ecologically relevant enzymes here.


7 January 2015: Love your guts: CAZypedia is ringing in the new year with a new Glycoside Hydrolase Family 76 page by Spencer Williams. GH76 contains endo-acting α-mannanases, including members from the human gut bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron that enable us to degrade yeast mannans in our diet. A very recent publication in Nature, notably involving CAZypedia contributors Michael Suits, Al Boraston, Spencer Williams, Gideon Davies, Wade Abbott, and Harry Gilbert, has recently shed new light on the structure, mechanism, and biological function of these enzymes. Read more here!