Article
Seven N-terminal residues of a thermophilic xylanase are sufficient to confer hyperthermostability on its mesophilic counterpart.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Zhang Shan, He Yongzhi, Yu Haiying, Dong Zhiyang
Abstract excerpt
Xylanases, and especially thermostable xylanases, are increasingly of interest for the deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass. In this paper, the termini of a pair of xylanases, mesophilic SoxB and thermophilic TfxA, were studied. Two regions in the N-terminus of TfxA were discovered to be potentially important for the thermostability. By focusing on Region 4, it was demonstrated that only two mutations, N32G...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Endo-1,4-beta Xylanases
- Escherichia coli
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Streptomyces
- Temperature
