Functional characterization of a cellulose binding xylanase fromFusarium oxysporum

✍ Scribed by P. Christakopoulos; W. Nerinckx; B. Samyn; D. Kekos; B. Macris; J. Beeumen; M. Claeyssens

• Book ID: 104640012
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 300 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0141-5492
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00142957

✦ Synopsis

An extracellular endoxylanase from Fusarium oxysporum binds onto crystalline cellulose. A small peptide (-2kDa) could be isolated after partial proteolysis of the native protein.

It consists of 18 amino acids, is located in the C-terminal region of the protein and corresponds functionally to a cellulose binding domain (CBD), the first one to be reported in a fungal xylanase. The amino acid sequence of this peptide shows no homology with any known CBD.