Glycoside hydrolase family 7

Glycosyl hydrolase family 7
endoglucanase i complexed with epoxybutyl cellobiose
Identifiers
Symbol Glyco_hydro_7
Pfam PF00840
Pfam clan CL0004
InterPro IPR001722
SCOP 1cel
CAZy GH7

In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 7 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.

Glycoside hydrolases EC 3.2.1. are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolases, based on sequence similarity, has led to the definition of >100 different families.[1][2][3] This classification is available on the CAZy(http://www.cazy.org/GH1.html) web site,[4] and also discussed at CAZypedia, an online encyclopedia of carbohydrate active enzymes. [5]

Glycoside hydrolase family 7 CAZY GH_7 comprises enzymes with several known activities including endoglucanase (EC 3.2.1.4) and cellobiohydrolase (EC 3.2.1.91). These enzymes were formerly known as cellulase family C.

Exoglucanases and cellobiohydrolases[6] play a role in the conversion of cellulose to glucose by cutting the disaccharide cellobiose from the non-reducing end of the cellulose polymer chain. Structurally, cellulases and xylanases frequently consist of a catalytic domain joined to a cellulose-binding domain (CBD) via a linker region that is rich in proline and/or hydroxy-amino acids. In type I exoglucanases, the CBD domain is found at the C-terminal extremity of these enzyme (this short domain forms a hairpin loop structure stabilised by 2 disulphide bridges).

References

  1. ^ Henrissat B, Callebaut I, Mornon JP, Fabrega S, Lehn P, Davies G (1995). "Conserved catalytic machinery and the prediction of a common fold for several families of glycosyl hydrolases". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92 (15): 7090–7094. doi:10.1073/pnas.92.15.7090. PMC 41477. PMID 7624375. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=41477. 
  2. ^ Henrissat B, Davies G (1995). "Structures and mechanisms of glycosyl hydrolases". Structure 3 (9): 853–859. doi:10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00220-9. PMID 8535779. 
  3. ^ Bairoch, A. "Classification of glycosyl hydrolase families and index of glycosyl hydrolase entries in SWISS-PROT". 1999.
  4. ^ Henrissat, B. and Coutinho P.M. "Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes server". 1999.
  5. ^ CAZypedia, an online encyclopedia of carbohydrate-active enzymes.
  6. ^ Gilkes NR, Kilburn DG, Henrissat B, Miller Jr RC, Warren RA (1991). "Domains in microbial beta-1, 4-glycanases: sequence conservation, function, and enzyme families". Microbiol. Rev. 55 (2): 303–315. PMC 372816. PMID 1886523. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=372816. 

This article incorporates text from the public domain Pfam and InterPro IPR001722