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Kinetics and Predicted Structure of a Novel Xylose Reductase from Chaetomium thermophilum.


ABSTRACT: While in search of an enzyme for the conversion of xylose to xylitol at elevated temperatures, a xylose reductase (XR) gene was identified in the genome of the thermophilic fungus Chaetomium thermophilum. The gene was heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli as a His6-tagged fusion protein and characterized for function and structure. The enzyme exhibits dual cofactor specificity for NADPH and NADH and prefers D-xylose over other pentoses and investigated hexoses. A homology model based on a XR from Candida tenuis was generated and the architecture of the cofactor binding site was investigated in detail. Despite the outstanding thermophilicity of its host the enzyme is, however, not thermostable.

SUBMITTER: Quehenberger J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6337131 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Kinetics and Predicted Structure of a Novel Xylose Reductase from <i>Chaetomium thermophilum</i>.

Quehenberger Julian J   Reichenbach Tom T   Baumann Niklas N   Rettenbacher Lukas L   Divne Christina C   Spadiut Oliver O  

International journal of molecular sciences 20190106 1


While in search of an enzyme for the conversion of xylose to xylitol at elevated temperatures, a xylose reductase (XR) gene was identified in the genome of the thermophilic fungus <i>Chaetomium thermophilum</i>. The gene was heterologously expressed in <i>Escherichia coli</i> as a His6-tagged fusion protein and characterized for function and structure. The enzyme exhibits dual cofactor specificity for NADPH and NADH and prefers D-xylose over other pentoses and investigated hexoses. A homology mo  ...[more]

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