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Structural and functional studies of the glycoside hydrolase family 3 ?-glucosidase Cel3A from the moderately thermophilic fungus Rasamsonia emersonii.

ABSTRACT: The filamentous fungus Hypocrea jecorina produces a number of cellulases and hemicellulases that act in a concerted fashion on biomass and degrade it into monomeric or oligomeric sugars. ?-Glucosidases are involved in the last step of the degradation of cellulosic biomass and hydrolyse the ?-glycosidic linkage between two adjacent molecules in dimers and oligomers of glucose. In this study, it is shown that substituting the ?-glucosidase from H. jecorina (HjCel3A) with the ?-glucosidase Cel3A from the thermophilic fungus Rasamsonia emersonii (ReCel3A) in enzyme mixtures results in increased efficiency in the saccharification of lignocellulosic materials. Biochemical characterization of ReCel3A, heterologously produced in H. jecorina, reveals a preference for disaccharide substrates over longer gluco-oligosaccharides. Crystallographic studies of ReCel3A revealed a highly N-glycosylated three-domain dimeric protein, as has been observed previously for glycoside hydrolase family 3 ?-glucosidases. The increased thermal stability and saccharification yield and the superior biochemical characteristics of ReCel3A compared with HjCel3A and mixtures containing HjCel3A make ReCel3A an excellent candidate for addition to enzyme mixtures designed to operate at higher temperatures.

SUBMITTER: Gudmundsson M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4932919 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Structural and functional studies of the glycoside hydrolase family 3 β-glucosidase Cel3A from the moderately thermophilic fungus Rasamsonia emersonii.

Gudmundsson Mikael M Hansson Henrik H Karkehabadi Saeid S Larsson Anna A Stals Ingeborg I Kim Steve S Sunux Sergio S Fujdala Meredith M Larenas Edmund E Kaper Thijs T Sandgren Mats M

Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology 20160623 Pt 7

The filamentous fungus Hypocrea jecorina produces a number of cellulases and hemicellulases that act in a concerted fashion on biomass and degrade it into monomeric or oligomeric sugars. β-Glucosidases are involved in the last step of the degradation of cellulosic biomass and hydrolyse the β-glycosidic linkage between two adjacent molecules in dimers and oligomers of glucose. In this study, it is shown that substituting the β-glucosidase from H. jecorina (HjCel3A) with the β-glucosidase Cel3A fr ...[more]

PMID: 27377383

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Project description:BackgroundThe filamentous fungus Rasamsonia emersonii has immense potential to produce biorefinery relevant thermostable cellulase and hemicellulase enzymes using lignocellulosic biomass. Previously in our lab, a hyper-cellulase producing strain of R. emersonii was developed through classical breeding and system biology approaches. ACE1, a pivotal transcription factor in fungi, plays a crucial role in negatively regulating the expression of cellulase genes. In order to identify the role of ACE1 in cellulase production and to further improve the lignocellulolytic enzyme production in R. emersonii, CRISPR/Cas9 mediated disruption of ACE1 gene was employed.ResultsA gene-edited ∆ACE1 strain (GN11) was created, that showed 21.97, 20.70 and 24.63, 9.42, 18.12%, improved endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase (CBHI), β-glucosidase, FPase, and xylanase, activities, respectively, as compared to parental strain M36. The transcriptional profiling showed that the expression of global regulator (XlnR) and different CAZymes genes including endoglucanases, cellobiohydrolase, β-xylosidase, xylanase, β-glucosidase and lytic polysaccharide mono-oxygenases (LPMOs) were significantly enhanced, suggesting critical roles of ACE1 in negatively regulating the expression of various key genes associated with cellulase production in R. emersonii. Whereas, the disruption of ACE1 significantly down-regulated the expression of CreA repressor gene as also evidenced by 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) resistance phenotype exhibited by edited strain GN11 as well as appreciably higher constitutive production of cellulases in the presence of glucose and mixture of glucose and disaccharide (MGDs) both in batch and flask fed batch mode of culturing. Furthermore, ∆ACE1 strains were evaluated for the hydrolysis of biorefinery relevant steam/acid pretreated unwashed rice straw slurry (Praj Industries Ltd; 15% substrate loading rate) and were found to be significantly superior when compared to the benchmark enzymes produced by parent strain M36 and Cellic Ctec3.ConclusionsCurrent work uncovers the crucial role of ACE1 in regulating the expression of the various cellulase genes and carbon catabolite repression mechanism in R. emersonii. This study represents the first successful report of utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology to disrupt the ACE1 gene in the thermophlic fungus R. emersonii. The improved methodologies presented in this work might be applied to other commercially important fungal strains for which genetic manipulation tools are limited.

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Structural and functional studies of the glycoside hydrolase family 3 ?-glucosidase Cel3A from the moderately thermophilic fungus Rasamsonia emersonii.

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Structural and functional studies of the glycoside hydrolase family 3 β-glucosidase Cel3A from the moderately thermophilic fungus Rasamsonia emersonii.

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