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J. Bacteriol., 02 1996, 1200-1203, Vol 178, No. 4
B Lytle, C Myers, K Kruus and JH Wu
The Clostridium thermocellum cellulosomal scaffolding protein, CipA, acts
as an anchor on the cellulose surface for the various catalytic subunits of
the cellulosome, a large extracellular cellulase complex. CipA contains
nine repeated domains that serve as receptors for the cellulosomal
catalytic subunits, each of which carries a conserved, duplicated ligand
sequence (DS). Four representative CipA receptor domains with sequence
dissimilarity were cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The
interaction of these cloned receptor domains with the duplicated ligand
sequence of CelS (expressed as a thioredoxin fusion protein, TRX-DSCelS),
was studied by nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. TRX-DSCelS
formed a stable complex with each of the four receptor domains, indicating
that CelS, the most abundant cellulosomal catalytic subunit, binds
nonselectively to all of the CipA receptors. Conversely, the duplicated
sequence of CipA (in the form of TRX-DSCipA), which is homologous to that
of CelS, did not bind to any of the receptors under the experimental
conditions.
Copyright © 1996, American Society for Microbiology
Interactions of the CelS binding ligand with various receptor domains of the Clostridium thermocellum cellulosomal scaffolding protein, CipA
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester, New York 14627-0166, USA.
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