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Glycoside Hydrolase Family 124
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| Glycoside Hydrolase Family GH124 | |
| Clan | GH-x |
| Mechanism | retaining/inverting |
| Active site residues | known/not known |
| CAZy DB link | |
| https://www.cazy.org/GH124.html | |
Substrate specificities
Family 124 consists of a small number of cellulosomal proteins. The Clostridium thermocellum enzyme CtCel124A is the only member of this family that has been characterized. The enzyme is an endo-beta1,4-glucanase with modest activity in vitro, but acts in synergy with the major exo-cellulase from C. thermocellum and, as a discrete entity, is able to deconstruct tobacco cell walls [1].
Kinetics and Mechanism
HPLC using cellopentaose as the substrate showed that the enzyme has a single displacement inverting mechanism [1]. .
Catalytic Residues
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Three-dimensional structures
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Family Firsts
- First stereochemistry determination
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- First catalytic nucleophile identification
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- First general acid/base residue identification
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- First 3-D structure
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References
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Sinnott, M.L. (1990) Catalytic mechanisms of enzymic glycosyl transfer. Chem. Rev. 90, 1171-1202. DOI: 10.1021/cr00105a006
- He S and Withers SG. (1997). Assignment of sweet almond beta-glucosidase as a family 1 glycosidase and identification of its active site nucleophile. J Biol Chem. 1997;272(40):24864-7. DOI:10.1074/jbc.272.40.24864 |
- Brás JL, Cartmell A, Carvalho AL, Verzé G, Bayer EA, Vazana Y, Correia MA, Prates JA, Ratnaparkhe S, Boraston AB, Romão MJ, Fontes CM, and Gilbert HJ. (2011). Structural insights into a unique cellulase fold and mechanism of cellulose hydrolysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011;108(13):5237-42. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1015006108 |