Article
Rational Engineering of a β-Glucosidase (H0HC94) from Glycosyl Hydrolase Family I (GH1) to Improve Catalytic Performance on Cellobiose.
The journal of physical chemistry. B - 12 Sept 2024
Sengupta Sauratej, Chanda Pinaki, Manna Bharat, Ghosh Amit, Datta Supratim
Abstract excerpt
The conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks by cellulases to glucose is a critical step in biofuel production. β-Glucosidases catalyze the final step in cellulose breakdown, producing glucose, and are often the rate-limiting step in biomass hydrolysis. The specific activity of most natural and engineered β-glucosidase is higher on the artificial substrate p-nitrophenyl β-d-glucopyranoside (pNPGlc) than on the...
Topics
- Protein Engineering
- Biocatalysis
- Cellobiose
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Dynamics Simulation
- beta-Glucosidase
- Substrate Specificity
- Mutation
- Enzyme Stability
- Temperature
- Bacteria
- Hydrogen Bonding
