Polysaccharide Lyase Family 15

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• Author: ^^^Emil Stender^^^
• Responsible Curator: ^^^Birte Svensson^^^

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Polysaccharide Lyase Family 15
3D structure	(α/α)6 barrel + anti-parallel β-sheet
Mechanism	β-elimination
Charge neutralizer	Arginine and histidine
Active site residues	known
CAZy DB link
https://www.cazy.org/PL15.html

Substrate specificities

PL15 currently contains 2 subfamilies [1] as well as several proteins currently not assigned to any subfamily. Subfamily one has been shown to only degrade alginate [2, 3, 4, 5] while subfamily 2 has been found to be heparin and heparan sulfate lyases [6, 7]. Alginate consisting of 1,4 linked β-D-mannuronic acid and α-L-guluronic acid arranged in poly-mannuronic acid blocks, poly-guluronic acid blocks or poly-mannuronic/guluronic acid blocks [8, 9]. Heparin consisting of disaccharide repeating units of which the most common is 2-O-sulfated 1,4 linked α-L-iduronic acid and 6-O-sulfated, N-sulfated glucosamine [IdoA(2S)-GlcNS(6S)]. Heparan sulfate being very similar to heparin having the IdoA replaced with β-D-glucuronic acid with a considerably more variable sulfation and acetylation pattern [10]. Authors may get an idea of what to put in each field from Curator Approved Glycoside Hydrolase Families. (TIP: Right click with your mouse and open this link in a new browser window...)

In the meantime, please see these references for an essential introduction to the CAZy classification system: [11, 12].

Kinetics and Mechanism

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Catalytic Residues

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Three-dimensional structures

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Family Firsts

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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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8. Haug, A., Larsen, B., and Smidsrod, O. (1967) Studies on sequence of uronic acid residues in alginic acid. Acta Chem. Scand. 21, 691–704

9. Haug, A., Larsen, B., and Smidsrod, O. (1966) A study of constitution of alginic acid by partial acid hydrolysis. Acta Chem. Scand. 20, 183–190

11. Davies, G.J. and Sinnott, M.L. (2008) Sorting the diverse: the sequence-based classifications of carbohydrate-active enzymes. The Biochemist, vol. 30, no. 4., pp. 26-32. Download PDF version.

12. Cantarel BL, Coutinho PM, Rancurel C, Bernard T, Lombard V, and Henrissat B. (2009). The Carbohydrate-Active EnZymes database (CAZy): an expert resource for Glycogenomics. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009;37(Database issue):D233-8. DOI:10.1093/nar/gkn663 |