Insights into plant cell wall degradation from the genome sequence of the soil bacterium Cellvibrio japonicus.

ABSTRACT: The plant cell wall, which consists of a highly complex array of interconnecting polysaccharides, is the most abundant source of organic carbon in the biosphere. Microorganisms that degrade the plant cell wall synthesize an extensive portfolio of hydrolytic enzymes that display highly complex molecular architectures. To unravel the intricate repertoire of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes synthesized by the saprophytic soil bacterium Cellvibrio japonicus, we sequenced and analyzed its genome, which predicts that the bacterium contains the complete repertoire of enzymes required to degrade plant cell wall and storage polysaccharides. Approximately one-third of these putative proteins (57) are predicted to contain carbohydrate binding modules derived from 13 of the 49 known families. Sequenc

SUBMITTER: DeBoy RT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2493263 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature