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We characterized recombinant Lin1839 protein (Lin1839r) belonging to glycoside hydrolase family 94 from Listeria innocua. Lin1839r catalyzed the synthesis of a series of 1,2-β-oligoglucans (Sopn: n denotes degree of polymerization) using sophorose (Sop2) as the acceptor and α-d-glucose 1-phosphate (Glc1P) as the donor. Lin1839r recognized glucose as a very weak acceptor substrate to form polymeric 1,2-β-glucan. The degree of polymerization of the 1,2-β-glucan gradually decreased with long-term incubation to generate a series of Sopns. Kinetic analysis of the phosphorolytic reaction towards sophorotriose revealed that Lin1839r followed a sequential Bi Bi mechanism. The kinetic parameters of the phosphorolysis of sophorotetraose and sophoropentaose were similar to those of sophorotriose, although the enzyme did not exhibit significant phosphorolytic activity on Sop2. These results indicate that the Lin1839 protein is a novel inverting phosphorylase that catalyzes reversible phosphorolysis of 1,2-β-glucan with a degree of polymerization of ≥3. We propose 1,2-β-oligoglucan: phosphate α-glucosyltransferase as the systematic name and 1,2-β-oligoglucan phosphorylase as the short name for this Lin1839 protein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A glycoside hydrolase responsible for laminarin degradation was partially purified to homogeneity from a Ustilago esculenta culture filtrate by weak-cation-exchange, strong-cation-exchange, and size-exclusion chromatography. Three proteins in enzy-matically active fractions were digested with chymotrypsin followed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/ MS/MS) analysis, resulting in the identification of three peptide sequences that shared significant similarity to a putative β-1,3-glucanase, a member of glucoside hydrolase family 16 (GH16) from Sporisorium reilianum SRZ2. A gene encoding a laminarin-degrading enzyme from 17. esculenta, lam16A, was isolated by PCR using degenerate primers designed based on the S. reilianum SRZ2 β-1,3-glucanase gene. Lam16A possesses a GH16 catalytic domain with an N-terminal signal peptide and a C-terminal gly-cosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor peptide. Recombinant Lam16A fused to an N-terminal FLAG peptide (Lam16A-FLAG) overexpressed in Aspergillus oryzae exhibited hydrolytic activity toward β-1,3-glucan specifically and was localized both in the extracellular and in the membrane fractions but not in the cell wall fraction. Lam16A without a GPI anchor signal peptide was secreted extracellularly and was not detected in the membrane fraction. Membrane-anchored Lam16A-FLAG was released completely by treatment with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C. These results suggest that Lam16A is anchored in the plasma membrane in order to modify β-1,3-glucan associated with the inner cell wall and that Lam16A is also used for the catab-olism of β-1,3-glucan after its release in the extracellular medium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: We characterized a glycoside hydrolase family 112 protein from Opitutus terrae (Oter_1377 protein). The enzyme phosphorolyzed d-galactosyl-β1→4-l-rhamnose (GalRha) and also showed phosphorolytic activity on d-galactosyl-β1→3-d-glucose as a minor substrate. In the reverse reaction, the enzyme showed higher activity on l-rhamnose derivatives than on d-glucose derivatives. The enzyme was stable up to 45°C and at pH 6.0–7.0. The values of k cat and K m of the phosphorolytic activity of the enzyme on GalRha were 60s−1 and 2.1mM, respectively. Thus, Oter_1377 protein was identified as d-galactosyl-β1→4-l-rhamnose phosphorylase (GalRhaP). The presence of GalRhaP in O. terrae suggests that genes encoding GalRhaP are widely distributed in different organisms. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Most Gram-negative bacteria synthesize osmo-regulated periplasmic glucans (OPG) in the periplasm or extracellular space. Pathogenicity of many pathogens is lost by knocking out opgG, an OPG-related gene indispensable for OPG synthesis. However, the biochemical functions of OpgG and OpgD, a paralog of OpgG, have not been elucidated. In this study, structural and functional analyses of OpgG and OpgD from Escherichia coli revealed that these proteins are β-1,2-glucanases with remarkably different activity from each other, establishing a new glycoside hydrolase family, GH186. Furthermore, a reaction mechanism with an unprecedentedly long proton transfer pathway among glycoside hydrolase families is proposed for OpgD. The conformation of the region that forms the reaction pathway differs noticeably between OpgG and OpgD, which explains the observed low activity of OpgG. The findings enhance our understanding of OPG biosynthesis and provide insights into functional diversity for this novel enzyme family. Two β-1,2-glucanases involved in periplasmic glucan synthesis, OpgG and OpgD from E. coli, belong to an uncharacterized glycoside hydrolase family. Biochemical and structural characterization show that OpgD employs a long range proton transfer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Class II α-mannosidase cleaves off α-1,2-, α-1,3- and α-1,6-mannose residues. In this paper, the crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of cytosolic class II α-mannosidase from Thermotoga maritima (TM1851), a family 38 glycoside hydrolase, is described. The crystal of recombinant TM1851 belongs to the C-­centred monoclinic space group C2, with unit-cell parameters a = 244.7, b = 87.4, c = 166.6 Å, β = 124.7°. X-ray diffraction data were collected to a resolution of 2.9 Å. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]