纤维素酶分子结构与功能研究进展

纤维素酶分子结构与功能研究进展阎伯旭,高培基（山东大学微生物研究所济南２５０１００）纤维素是地球上数量最大的可再生性能源物质,微生物对它的降解、转化是自然界碳素循环的重要环节,对这个过程的有效利用则可望在能源、饲料和食物的持续供应上发挥巨大的作用。从...     

微生物纤维素酶的研究现状

主要探讨了近年来微生物纤维素酶的研究进展。重点概述了纤维素酶的分子结构、功能、作用机制以及产纤维素酶微生物种类的研究现状,并对该领域的研究问题和前景进行讨论。     

纤维素酶的结构及分子多样性

概述了纤维素酶的结构、功能、作用机制以及纤维素酶的分子多样性及分子多样性起源的研究进展。     

纤维素酶基因克隆及其功能性氨基酸研究进展

纤维素酶基因克隆及其功能性氨基酸的研究有助于深入探索纤维素酶生物合成和作用机制以及构建高效分解纤维素基因工程菌。迄今,多种来源的纤维素酶基因已经在不同的原核或真核表达系统中获得成功。对氨基酸序列及三维结构的研究,同时结合定点诱变技术,目前对第5、6、7、9、45糖基水解酶族中纤维素酶催化机制和功能氨基酸有了更多的认识,这有助于新纤维素酶分子的构建。     

纤维素结合域的研究进展

纤维资源是生物界最为丰富的有机碳源,有效酶解植物纤维资源对于减缓能源枯竭和食品危机具有重要意义。然而,天然纤维素结构上的复杂多样性为酶的攻击和可及带来巨大困难。为了克服这一问题,自然界中能够利用纤维原料的酶大多由相对独立的两种结构域、催化结构域(CD)、纤维素结合结构域(CBM)组成。其中,CBM有助于酶与不溶性底物的结合,在纤维原料酶解中具有重要作用。CBM所具备的特殊的底物特异性不仅对于提高酶与纤维的可及度,增强纤维素酶解效率,揭示纤维素酶解机制具有重要意义,而且应用在基因工程产品的分离纯化,酶制剂的品质改善及细胞固定化等领域也有很好的发展前景。本文就近年来CBM的研究现状及其发展前景进行了综述。     

纤维素酶与木质纤维素生物降解转化的研究进展

利用纤维素酶将预处理后的秸秆降解成可发酵性单糖,然后发酵生产所需的液体燃料及化工产品的技术,对于我国解决能源、环境、人口就业等难题有着巨大的积极影响。在木质纤维素生物降解转化工艺中,减少纤维素酶用量及提高酶解效率是降低木质纤维素降解成本的关键。纤维素酶系和木质纤维素酶水解技术的改进需要深入了解纤维素酶系统的组成及其协同作用、纤维素酶的结构与功能以及纤维素酶的生产技术。将就以上几个方面的研究进展进行讨论,并深入探讨了纤维素酶糖化能力的评价方法。     

海洋微生物产纤维素酶及其应用研究进展

纤维素是地球上最古老、最丰富的天然高分子,是天然可再生资源。纤维素酶广泛存在于自然界的生物体中,细菌、真菌和动物体内都能产生纤维素酶。微生物产纤维素酶已有较多报道,并在食品、医药、饲料、洗涤、纺织和造纸工业等领域有广阔的应用前景。海洋是一个巨大的资源库,海洋微生物产纤维素酶已经受到了广泛的关注。对产纤维素酶海洋微生物的种群、来源及基因筛选、海洋微生物产纤维素酶的酶学特性,以及纤维素酶的应用领域等方面的研究进展进行了简要综述,并对海洋微生物产纤维素酶的研究进行了展望。     

白蚁消化系统转化和降解木质纤维素酶研究进展

木质纤维素是地球上最丰富的有机聚合物,白蚁是古老但进化最成功的高效木质纤维素降解者之一.了解白蚁降解高度抗性植物聚合物的机制对工业上生物质能源转化和生物仿生设计有重要的借鉴和指导价值.白蚁和其共生微生物产生的木质纤维素酶在其转化利用木质纤维素上发挥着重要作用.本文从来源作用方面对白蚁自身及其肠道原虫、细菌和真菌产生的纤...     

乙酰胆碱酯酶分子研究进展

乙酰胆碱酯酶是生物体内胆碱能神经传导中的一种关键酶,它能够快速水解神经递质乙酰胆碱,保证神经信号在生物体内正常传递。乙酰胆碱酯酶结构和催化功能研究一直是生命科学的重要课题,可为研制有针对性的新药和杀虫剂提供重要理论依据。我们简要介绍了乙酰胆碱酯酶的三维晶体结构、活性位点、高效催化机制及其应用。     

位点2蛋白酶的结构域、功能与作用机制研究进展

膜内蛋白酶对跨膜蛋白的不可逆性切割过程在跨膜信号转导途径中起着重要作用。位点2蛋白酶(site-2 proteases, S2P)属于膜内蛋白酶中的金属蛋白酶家族。基于进化树的序列分析,S2P及其同源物可以分为亚组Ⅰ至亚组Ⅳ,亚组Ⅰ包括了绝大多数真核生物和细菌的S2P及其同源物,亚组Ⅲ则为少数原核生物如枯草芽孢杆菌和古细菌如詹氏甲烷球菌的S2P同源物。由于S2P参与的信号转导从细菌到人类均具有保守性,本文以亚组Ⅰ和亚组Ⅲ的S2P为例进行综述,阐明S2P及其同源物对跨膜蛋白的切割过程,并展望尚待研究的方向。     

Why are proteins so robust to site mutations?

There have been repeated observations that proteins are surprisingly robust to site mutations, enduring significant numbers of substitutions with little change in structure, stability, or function. These results are almost paradoxical in light of what is known about random heteropolymers and the sensitivity of their properties to seemingly trivial mutations. To address this discrepancy, the preservation of biological protein properties in the presence of mutation has been interpreted as indicating the independence of selective pressure on such properties. Such results also lead to the prediction that de novo protein design should be relatively easy, in contrast to what is observed. Here, we use a computational model with lattice proteins to demonstrate how this robustness can result from population dynamics during the evolutionary process. As a result, sequence plasticity may be a characteristic of evolutionarily derived proteins and not necessarily a property of designed proteins. This suggests that this robustness must be re-interpreted in evolutionary terms, and has consequences for our understanding of both in vivo and in vitro protein evolution.     

Recent developments on cellulases and carbohydrate-binding modules with cellulose affinity

This review concerns basic research on cellulases and cellulose-specific carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs). As a background, glycosyl hydrolases are also briefly reviewed. The nomenclature of cellulases and CBMs is discussed. The main cellulase-producing organisms and their cellulases are described. Synergy, enantioseparation, cellulases in plants, cellulosomes, cellulases and CBMs as analytical tools and cellulase-like enzymes are also briefly reviewed.     

氢酶结构及催化机理研究进展

氢酶是一类催化氢的氧化或质子还原的酶,它在微生物产氢过程中扮演着重要角色。根据氢酶所含的金属元素,可分为NiFe_氢酶、Fe-氢酶和不含金属元素的metal_free氢酶。大多数氢酶含有金属原子,它们参与氢酶活性中心和[Fe_S]簇的形成。氢酶的活性中心直接催化氢的氧化与质子的还原,[Fe_S]簇则参与氢酶催化过程中电子的传输。目前已有数种NiFe_氢酶和Fe_氢酶的X射线衍射晶体结构被阐明。根据metal_free氢酶的序列特征,推断其结构与NiFe_氢酶和Fe_氢酶之间存在较大差异。对氢酶活性中心和[Fe_S]簇的深入研究,揭示了氢酶催化反应的机理。     

Catalysing new reactions during evolution: economy of residues and mechanism

The diversity of function in some enzyme superfamilies shows that during evolution, enzymes have evolved to catalyse different reactions on the same structure scaffold. In this analysis, we examine in detail how enzymes can modify their chemistry, through a comparison of the catalytic residues and mechanisms in 27 pairs of homologous enzymes of totally different functions. We find that evolution is very economical. Enzymes retain structurally conserved residues to aid catalysis, including residues that bind catalytic metal ions and modulate cofactor chemistry. We examine the conservation of residue type and residue function in these structurally conserved residue pairs. Additionally, enzymes often retain common mechanistic steps catalyzed by structurally conserved residues. We have examined these steps in the context of their overall reactions.     

纤维素酶的底物专一性

天然纤维素的有效酶解取决于外切葡聚糖纤维二糖水解酶（ＣＢＨ）和内切葡聚糖水解酶（ＥＧ）的协同作用。ＥＧ随机水解纤维素无定形区分子链内的β－１,４－糖苷键;ＣＢＨ则由分子链的还原性末端水解出纤维二糖。这种底物专一性差别的原因在于ＣＢＨ呈“桶状”的活性部痊表面存在２个“ｌｏｏｐ”结构,只能容许纤维素分子链的末端伸入到活性裂隙中。ＥＧ无“ｌｏｏｐ”结构在存在,对底物是充分可及的。ＥＧ催化结构域中底物结合     

The Formation of Glucose 1,6-Diphosphate from Fructose 1,6-Diphosphate by Yeast Phosphoglucomutase

It was found that fructose 1,6-diphosphate, the main intermediate of glycolysis, was able to act as a coenzyme of yeast phosphoglucomutase reaction. The mechanism of the coenzymatic activity of fructose 1,6-diphosphate was studied. It was indicated in the fructose 1,6-diphosphate dependent reaction that glucose 1,6-diphosphate was formed by the phosphate-transfer of fructose 1,6-diphosphate to glucose 1-phosphate in the first step, and in the second step the conversion of glucose 1-phosphate to glucose 6-phosphate, the original mutase reaction, occurred in the presence of glucose 1,6-diphosphate. The kinetic constants in the reaction of the first step were determined from the time courses of the fructose 1,6-diphosphate dependent reaction.     

果胶甲酯酶的结构与功能研究进展

果胶甲酯酶(PME)是一种重要的果胶酶,其水解果胶中的甲酯基从而释放甲醇并降低果胶的甲酯化程度。目前在食品加工、茶饮料、造纸等生产工艺中有着广泛的应用前景。随着对PME的深入研究,已报道了几种不同来源的酶晶体结构,对这些已获得的晶体结构进行分析发现,PME属于右手平行β-螺旋结构,其催化残基为2个保守的天冬氨酸和1个谷氨酰胺残基,并且在催化过程中分别起到了一般酸碱、亲核试剂以及稳定中间体的作用。同时对其底物特异性进行分析,初步了解其底物与活性位点的识别机制。文中针对这几个相关方面进行了系统的综述。     

Terbium-mediated footprinting probes a catalytic conformational switch in the antigenomic hepatitis delta virus ribozyme

The two forms of the hepatitis delta virus ribozyme are derived from the genomic and antigenomic RNA strands of the human hepatitis delta virus (HDV), where they serve a crucial role in pathogen replication by catalyzing site-specific self-cleavage reactions. The HDV ribozyme requires divalent metal ions for formation of its tertiary structure, consisting of a tight double-nested pseudoknot, and for efficient self- (or cis-) cleavage. Comparison of recently solved crystal structures of the cleavage precursor and 3' product indicates that a significant conformational switch is required for catalysis by the genomic HDV ribozyme. Here, we have used the lanthanide metal ion terbium(III) to footprint the precursor and product solution structures of the cis-acting antigenomic HDV ribozyme. Inhibitory Tb(3+) binds with high affinity to similar sites on RNA as Mg(2+) and subsequently promotes slow backbone scission. We find subtle, yet significant differences in the terbium(III) footprinting pattern between the precursor and product forms of the antigenomic HDV ribozyme, consistent with differences in conformation as observed in the crystal structures of the genomic ribozyme. In addition, UV melting profiles provide evidence for a less tight tertiary structure in the precursor. In both the precursor and product we observe high-affinity terbium(III) binding sites in joining sequence J4/2 (Tb(1/2) approximately 4 microM) and loop L3, which are key structural components forming the catalytic core of the HDV ribozyme, as well as in several single-stranded regions such as J1/2 and the L4 tetraloop (Tb(1/2) approximately 50 microM). Sensitized luminescence spectroscopy confirms that there are at least two affinity classes of Tb(3+) binding sites. Our results thus demonstrate that a significant conformational change accompanies catalysis in the antigenomic HDV ribozyme in solution, similar to the catalytic conformational switch observed in crystals of the genomic form, and that structural and perhaps catalytic metal ions bind close to the catalytic core.     

Using a library of structural templates to recognise catalytic sites and explore their evolution in homologous families

Catalytic site structure is normally highly conserved between distantly related enzymes. As a consequence, templates representing catalytic sites have the potential to succeed at function prediction in cases where methods based on sequence or overall structure fail. There are many methods for searching protein structures for matches to structural templates, but few validated template libraries to use with these methods. We present a library of structural templates representing catalytic sites, based on information from the scientific literature. Furthermore, we analyse homologous template families to discover the diversity within families and the utility of templates for active site recognition. Templates representing the catalytic sites of homologous proteins mostly differ by less than 1A root mean square deviation, even when the sequence similarity between the two proteins is low. Within these sets of homologues there is usually no discernible relationship between catalytic site structure similarity and sequence similarity. Because of this structural conservation of catalytic sites, the templates can discriminate between matches to related proteins and random matches with over 85% sensitivity and predictive accuracy. Templates based on protein backbone positions are more discriminating than those based on side-chain atoms. These analyses show encouraging prospects for prediction of functional sites in structural genomics structures of unknown function, and will be of use in analyses of convergent evolution and exploring relationships between active site geometry and chemistry. The template library can be queried via a web server at and is available for download.