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Publication Abstract from PubMed

The assembly of one of Nature most elaborate multi-enzyme complexes, the cellulosome, results from the binding of enzyme-borne dockerins to reiterated cohesin domains located in a non-catalytic primary scaffoldin. Generally, dockerins present two similar cohesin binding interfaces that support a dual binding mode. The dynamic integration of enzymes in cellulosomes, afforded by the dual binding mode, is believed to incorporate additional flexibility in highly populated multi-enzyme complexes. Ruminococcus flavefaciens, the primary degrader of plant structural carbohydrates in the rumen of mammals, uses a portfolio of more than 220 different enzymes to assemble the most intricate cellulosome known to date. A sequence-based analysis organized R. flavefaciens dockerins into six groups. Strikingly, a subset of R. flavefaciens cellulosomal enzymes, comprising dockerins of groups 3 and 6, were shown to be indirectly incorporated into primary scaffoldins, via an adaptor scaffoldin termed ScaC. Here we report the crystal structure of a group 3 R. flavefaciens dockerin, Doc3, in complex with ScaC cohesin. Doc3 is unusual as it presents a large cohesin-interacting surface that lacks the structural symmetry required to support a dual binding mode. In addition, dockerins of groups 3 and 6, which bind exclusively to ScaC cohesin, display a conserved mechanism of protein recognition that is similar to Doc3. Group 3 and 6 dockerins are predominantly appended to hemicellulose degrading enzymes. Thus, single binding mode dockerins interacting with adaptor scaffoldins exemplify an evolutionary pathway developed by R. flavefaciens to recruit hemicellulases to the sophisticated cellulosomes acting on the gastro intestinal tract of mammals.

Single-binding mode integration of hemicellulose degrading enzymes via adaptor scaffoldins in Ruminococcus flavefaciens cellulosome.,Bule P, Alves VD, Leitao A, Ferreira LM, Bayer EA, Smith SP, Gilbert HJ, Najmudin S, Fontes CM J Biol Chem. 2016 Nov 14. pii: jbc.M116.761643. PMID:27875311^[1]

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