The room-temperature structure of xy
lanase (EC 3.2.1.8) from the bacterial p
lant pathogen
Erwinia chrysanthemi expressed in
Escherichia coli, a 45 kDa, 413-amino acid protein belonging toglycosi
de hydro
lase family 5, has been
determined by multiple isomorphous rep
lacement and refined toa resolution of 1.42 Å. This represents the first structure of a xy
lanase not belonging to either glycosi
dehydro
lase family 10 or family 11. The enzyme is composed of two domains simi
lar to most family 10xy
lanases and the
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-amy
lases. The catalytic domain (residues 46-315) has a (
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/
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)
8-barrel motif with abinding cleft along the C-terminal si
de of the
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-barrel. The catalytic residues, Glu165 and Glu253,
determined by correspon
dence to other family 5 and family 10 glycosi
de hydro
lases, lie insi
de this clefton the C-terminal ends of
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-strands 4 and 7, respectively, with an O
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2···O
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1 distance of 4.22 Å. Thesmaller domain (residues 31-43 and 323-413) has a
9-barrel motif with five of the strands interfacingwith
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-helices 7 and 8 of the catalytic domain. The first 13 N-terminal residues form one
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-strand of thisdomain. Residues 44, 45, and 316-322 form the linkers between this domain and the catalytic domain.