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8 April 2020: Another new one from the gut. The Glycoside Hydrolase Family 164 page, which was authored by Zachary Armstrong, was upgraded to Curator Approved status by Responsible Curator Gideon Davies today. Glycoside Hydrolase Family 164 is yet another recently discovered GH family from a human gut bacterium. The founding member of GH164 is a beta-mannosidase from Bacteroides salyersiae, on which Zach and Gideon performed a classic mechanistic and structural analysis to define the central aspects of catalysis in this new family. Read more about this new - and currently tiny - GH family here.
14 February 2020: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. The human gut bacterium Roseburia intestinalis provides a Curator Approved Carbohydrate Binding Module Family 86 page as a special Valentine Day's gift. CBM86 members are structurally located at the N-termini of GH10 xylanase polypeptides. Roseburia intestinalis certainly enjoys the sugary xylans it encounters in the dietary tract as a carbon source and likely uses the CBM86 modules to enhance xylan capture through improved xylan affinity for the xylanase enzymes. The CBM86 page was written in record time by Maria Louise Leth with Maher Abou Hachem acting as Responsible Curator. Read more about this 'rosy' xylan-binding family here.