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SUBMITTER: Ezer A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2593223 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ezer Anat A Matalon Erez E Jindou Sadanari S Borovok Ilya I Atamna Nof N Yu Zhongtang Z Morrison Mark M Bayer Edward A EA Lamed Raphael R
Journal of bacteriology 20081017 24
The rumen bacterium Ruminococcus albus binds to and degrades crystalline cellulosic substrates via a unique cellulose degradation system. A unique family of carbohydrate-binding modules (CBM37), located at the C terminus of different glycoside hydrolases, appears to be responsible both for anchoring these enzymes to the bacterial cell surface and for substrate binding. ...[more]