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Journal of Bacteriology, February 2002, p. 884-888, Vol. 184, No. 4
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.4.884-888.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Cell-Surface-Anchoring Role of N-Terminal Surface Layer Homology Domains of Clostridium cellulovorans EngE

Akihiko Kosugi,1 Koichiro Murashima,1 Yutaka Tamaru,2 and Roy H. Doi1*

Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616,1 Department of Life Science, Mie University, Tsu 514-8507, Japan2

Received 27 August 2001/ Accepted 13 November 2001

engE, coding for endoglucanase E, one of the three major subunits of the Clostridium cellulovorans cellulosome, has been cloned and sequenced (Y. Tamaru and R. H. Doi, J. Bacteriol. 181:3270-3276, 1999). The N-terminal-half region of EngE possesses three repeated surface layer homology (SLH) domains, which are homologous to those of some bacterial S-layer proteins. Also, the C-terminal-half region consists of a catalytic domain of glycosyl hydrolase family 5 and a duplicated sequence (dockerin) for binding EngE to scaffolding protein CbpA. Our hypothesis is that the SLH domains serve in the role of anchoring to the cell surface. This model was investigated by using recombinant EngEs (rEngE) with and without SLH domains that were synthesized in Escherichia coli and cell wall preparations from C. cellulovorans. When rEngE and SLH polypeptides of EngE were incubated with cell wall fragments prepared by sodium dodecyl sulfate treatment, these proteins bound strongly to the cell wall. However, rEngEs without SLH domains lost their ability to bind to cell walls. When rEngE was incubated with mini-CbpA, consisting of two cohesin domains, and cell wall fragments, the mini-CbpA was able to bind to the cell wall with rEngE. However, the binding of mini-CbpA was dramatically inhibited by addition of a chelating reagent, such as EDTA, which prevents cohesin-dockerin interactions. These results suggest not only that the SLH domains of EngE can bind to the cell surface but also that EngE plays an anchoring role for cellulosomes through the interaction of its dockerin domain with a CbpA cohesin.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616. Phone: (530) 752-3191. Fax: (530) 752-3085. E-mail: rhdoi{at}ucdavis.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, February 2002, p. 884-888, Vol. 184, No. 4
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.4.884-888.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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