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
SCOP2	1cel / SCOPe / SUPFAM
CAZy	GH7
CDD	cd07999
Available protein structures: Pfam   structures / ECOD   PDB RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj PDBsum structure summary

In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 7 is a family of glycoside hydrolases EC 3.2.1., which 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 web site, ^{[4] [5]} and also discussed at CAZypedia, an online encyclopedia of carbohydrate active enzymes. ^{[6] [7]}

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 ^[8] 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, Fabrega S, Lehn P, Mornon JP, Davies G (July 1995). "Conserved catalytic machinery and the prediction of a common fold for several families of glycosyl hydrolases". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 92 (15): 7090–4. Bibcode:1995PNAS...92.7090H. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.15.7090 . PMC   41477 . PMID   7624375.
2. Davies G, Henrissat B (September 1995). "Structures and mechanisms of glycosyl hydrolases". Structure. 3 (9): 853–9. doi: 10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00220-9 . PMID   8535779.
3. Henrissat B, Bairoch A (June 1996). "Updating the sequence-based classification of glycosyl hydrolases". The Biochemical Journal. 316 (Pt 2): 695–6. doi:10.1042/bj3160695. PMC   1217404 . PMID   8687420.
4. "Home". CAZy.org. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
5. Lombard V, Golaconda Ramulu H, Drula E, Coutinho PM, Henrissat B (January 2014). "The carbohydrate-active enzymes database (CAZy) in 2013". Nucleic Acids Research. 42 (Database issue): D490–5. doi:10.1093/nar/gkt1178. PMC   3965031 . PMID   24270786.
6. "Glycoside Hydrolase Family 7". CAZypedia.org. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
7. CAZypedia Consortium (December 2018). "Ten years of CAZypedia: a living encyclopedia of carbohydrate-active enzymes" (PDF). Glycobiology. 28 (1): 3–8. doi: 10.1093/glycob/cwx089 . PMID   29040563.
8. Gilkes NR, Henrissat B, Kilburn DG, Miller RC, Warren RA (June 1991). "Domains in microbial beta-1, 4-glycanases: sequence conservation, function, and enzyme families". Microbiological Reviews. 55 (2): 303–15. doi:10.1128/MMBR.55.2.303-315.1991. PMC   372816 . PMID   1886523.

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