Cellodextrin and laminaribiose ABC transporters in Clostridium thermocellum.

ABSTRACT: Clostridium thermocellum is an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium that grows efficiently on cellulosic biomass. This bacterium produces and secretes a highly active multienzyme complex, the cellulosome, that mediates the cell attachment to and hydrolysis of the crystalline cellulosic substrate. C. thermocellum can efficiently utilize only beta-1,3 and beta-1,4 glucans and prefers long cellodextrins. Since the bacterium can also produce ethanol, it is considered an attractive candidate for a consolidated fermentation process in which cellulose hydrolysis and ethanol fermentation occur in a single process. In this study, we have identified and characterized five sugar ABC transporter systems in C. thermocellum. The putative transporters were identified by sequence homology of the putative solu

SUBMITTER: Nataf Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2612431 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature