Discovery of a thermostable GH10 xylanase with broad substrate specificity from the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge vent system

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A two-domain GH10 xylanase-encoding gene (amor_gh10a) was discovered from a metagenomic data set, generated after in situ incubation of a lignocellulosic substrate in hot sediments on the sea floor of the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR). AMOR_GH10A comprises a signal peptide, a carbohydrate-binding module belonging to a previously uncharacterized family, and a catalytic glycosyl hydrolase (GH10) domain. The enzyme shares the highest sequence identity (42%) with a hypothetical protein from a Verrucomicrobia bacterium, and its GH10 domain shares low identity (24 to 28%) with functionally characterized xylanases. Purified AMOR_GH10A showed thermophilic and halophilic properties and was active toward various xylans. Uniquely, the enzyme showed high activity toward amorphous cellulose, glucomannan, and xyloglucan and was more active toward cellopentaose than toward xylopentaose. Binding assays showed that the N-terminal domain of this broadspecificity GH10 binds strongly to amorphous cellulose, as well as to microcrystalline cellulose, birchwood glucuronoxylan, barley β-glucan, and konjac glucomannan, confirming its classification as a novel CBM (CBM85).

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Fredriksen, L., Stokke, R., Jensen, M. S., Westereng, B., Jameson, J. K., Steen, I. H., & Eijsinka, V. G. H. (2019). Discovery of a thermostable GH10 xylanase with broad substrate specificity from the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge vent system. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85(6). https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02970-18

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