Molecular Cloning of a Gene Encoding Endo-[beta]-D-1,4-Glucanase PCE1 from Phycomyces nitens

We previously cloned three endoglucanase genes, rce1, rce2, and rce3, from Rhizopus oryzae as the first cellulase genes from the subdivision Zygomycota. In this study, an endoglucanase gene, designated a pce1 gene, was cloned by plaque hybridization with the codon usage-optimized rce1 gene as a prob...

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Published inBioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry Vol. 68; no. 11; p. 2299
Main Authors SHIMONAKA, Atsushi, BABA, Yuko, KOGA, Jinichiro, NAKANE, Akitaka, KUBOTA, Hidetoshi, KONO, Toshiaki
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tokyo Oxford University Press 01.11.2004
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Summary:We previously cloned three endoglucanase genes, rce1, rce2, and rce3, from Rhizopus oryzae as the first cellulase genes from the subdivision Zygomycota. In this study, an endoglucanase gene, designated a pce1 gene, was cloned by plaque hybridization with the codon usage-optimized rce1 gene as a probe from Phycomyces nitens, a member of the subdivision Zygomycota. The pec1 gene had an open reading frame of 1,038 nucleotides encoding an endoglucanase (PCE1) of 346 amino acid residues. The amino acid sequence deduced from the pce1 gene consisted of a cellulose-binding domain (CBD) at the N terminus and of a catalytic domain belonging to family 45 glycoside hydrolase at the C terminus. PCE1 was purified to apparent homogeneity from the culture supernatant of P. nitens and the molecular mass was found to be 45 kDa. The optimum pH for the CMCase activity of PCE1 was 6.0, and the optimum temperature was 50 °C, the lowest among the family 45 endoglucanases.
ISSN:0916-8451
1347-6947