Structural basis for cellobiose dehydrogenase action during oxidative cellulose degradation.
Tan, T.C., Kracher, D., Gandini, R., Sygmund, C., Kittl, R., Haltrich, D., Hallberg, B.M., Ludwig, R., Divne, C.(2015) Nat Commun 6: 7542-7542
- PubMed: 26151670
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8542
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4QI3, 4QI4, 4QI5, 4QI6, 4QI7, 4QI8 - PubMed Abstract:
A new paradigm for cellulose depolymerization by fungi focuses on an oxidative mechanism involving cellobiose dehydrogenases (CDH) and copper-dependent lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMO); however, mechanistic studies have been hampered by the lack of structural information regarding CDH. CDH contains a haem-binding cytochrome (CYT) connected via a flexible linker to a flavin-dependent dehydrogenase (DH). Electrons are generated from cellobiose oxidation catalysed by DH and shuttled via CYT to LPMO. Here we present structural analyses that provide a comprehensive picture of CDH conformers, which govern the electron transfer between redox centres. Using structure-based site-directed mutagenesis, rapid kinetics analysis and molecular docking, we demonstrate that flavin-to-haem interdomain electron transfer (IET) is enabled by a haem propionate group and that rapid IET requires a closed CDH state in which the propionate is tightly enfolded by DH. Following haem reduction, CYT reduces LPMO to initiate oxygen activation at the copper centre and subsequent cellulose depolymerization.
- 1] School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, Roslagstullsbacken 21, Stockholm S-10691, Sweden [2] Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Scheelelaboratoriet, Scheeles väg 2, Stockholm S-17177, Sweden.
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