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Discovery of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes through the rational exploration of the protein sequences space
Over the last two decades, the number of gene/protein sequences gleaned from sequencing projects of individual genomes and environmental DNA has grown exponentially. Only a tiny fraction of these predicted proteins has been experimentally characterized, and the function of most proteins remains hypo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6442616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30850540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1815791116 |
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author | Helbert, William Poulet, Laurent Drouillard, Sophie Mathieu, Sophie Loiodice, Mélanie Couturier, Marie Lombard, Vincent Terrapon, Nicolas Turchetto, Jeremy Vincentelli, Renaud Henrissat, Bernard |
author_facet | Helbert, William Poulet, Laurent Drouillard, Sophie Mathieu, Sophie Loiodice, Mélanie Couturier, Marie Lombard, Vincent Terrapon, Nicolas Turchetto, Jeremy Vincentelli, Renaud Henrissat, Bernard |
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description | Over the last two decades, the number of gene/protein sequences gleaned from sequencing projects of individual genomes and environmental DNA has grown exponentially. Only a tiny fraction of these predicted proteins has been experimentally characterized, and the function of most proteins remains hypothetical or only predicted based on sequence similarity. Despite the development of postgenomic methods, such as transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, the assignment of function to protein sequences remains one of the main challenges in modern biology. As in all classes of proteins, the growing number of predicted carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) has not been accompanied by a systematic and accurate attribution of function. Taking advantage of the CAZy database, which groups CAZymes into families and subfamilies based on amino acid similarities, we recombinantly produced 564 proteins selected from subfamilies without any biochemically characterized representatives, from distant relatives of characterized enzymes and from nonclassified proteins that show little similarity with known CAZymes. Screening these proteins for activity on a wide collection of carbohydrate substrates led to the discovery of 13 CAZyme families (two of which were also discovered by others during the course of our work), revealed three previously unknown substrate specificities, and assigned a function to 25 subfamilies. |
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spelling | pubmed-64426162019-04-05 Discovery of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes through the rational exploration of the protein sequences space Helbert, William Poulet, Laurent Drouillard, Sophie Mathieu, Sophie Loiodice, Mélanie Couturier, Marie Lombard, Vincent Terrapon, Nicolas Turchetto, Jeremy Vincentelli, Renaud Henrissat, Bernard Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Biological Sciences Over the last two decades, the number of gene/protein sequences gleaned from sequencing projects of individual genomes and environmental DNA has grown exponentially. Only a tiny fraction of these predicted proteins has been experimentally characterized, and the function of most proteins remains hypothetical or only predicted based on sequence similarity. Despite the development of postgenomic methods, such as transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, the assignment of function to protein sequences remains one of the main challenges in modern biology. As in all classes of proteins, the growing number of predicted carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) has not been accompanied by a systematic and accurate attribution of function. Taking advantage of the CAZy database, which groups CAZymes into families and subfamilies based on amino acid similarities, we recombinantly produced 564 proteins selected from subfamilies without any biochemically characterized representatives, from distant relatives of characterized enzymes and from nonclassified proteins that show little similarity with known CAZymes. Screening these proteins for activity on a wide collection of carbohydrate substrates led to the discovery of 13 CAZyme families (two of which were also discovered by others during the course of our work), revealed three previously unknown substrate specificities, and assigned a function to 25 subfamilies. National Academy of Sciences 2019-03-26 2019-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6442616/ /pubmed/30850540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1815791116 Text en Copyright © 2019 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Biological Sciences Helbert, William Poulet, Laurent Drouillard, Sophie Mathieu, Sophie Loiodice, Mélanie Couturier, Marie Lombard, Vincent Terrapon, Nicolas Turchetto, Jeremy Vincentelli, Renaud Henrissat, Bernard Discovery of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes through the rational exploration of the protein sequences space |
title | Discovery of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes through the rational exploration of the protein sequences space |
title_full | Discovery of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes through the rational exploration of the protein sequences space |
title_fullStr | Discovery of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes through the rational exploration of the protein sequences space |
title_full_unstemmed | Discovery of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes through the rational exploration of the protein sequences space |
title_short | Discovery of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes through the rational exploration of the protein sequences space |
title_sort | discovery of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes through the rational exploration of the protein sequences space |
topic | Biological Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6442616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30850540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1815791116 |
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