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Structural basis for cellobiose dehydrogenase action during oxidative cellulose degradation

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  • Tien-Chye Tan

    (School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center
    Karolinska Institutet, Scheelelaboratoriet)

  • Daniel Kracher

    (Food Biotechnology Laboratory, Vienna Institute of Biotechnology (VIBT), BOKU—University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)

  • Rosaria Gandini

    (School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center
    Karolinska Institutet, Scheelelaboratoriet)

  • Christoph Sygmund

    (Food Biotechnology Laboratory, Vienna Institute of Biotechnology (VIBT), BOKU—University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)

  • Roman Kittl

    (Food Biotechnology Laboratory, Vienna Institute of Biotechnology (VIBT), BOKU—University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)

  • Dietmar Haltrich

    (Food Biotechnology Laboratory, Vienna Institute of Biotechnology (VIBT), BOKU—University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)

  • B. Martin Hällberg

    (Karolinska Institutet
    European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg Unit, Hamburg 22603, Germany; and Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB)
    and Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB))

  • Roland Ludwig

    (Food Biotechnology Laboratory, Vienna Institute of Biotechnology (VIBT), BOKU—University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)

  • Christina Divne

    (School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center
    Karolinska Institutet, Scheelelaboratoriet)

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.

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  • Tien-Chye Tan & Daniel Kracher & Rosaria Gandini & Christoph Sygmund & Roman Kittl & Dietmar Haltrich & B. Martin Hällberg & Roland Ludwig & Christina Divne, 2015. "Structural basis for cellobiose dehydrogenase action during oxidative cellulose degradation," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 6(1), pages 1-11, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:6:y:2015:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms8542
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8542
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