Glycosyl hydrolase family 43 protein such as Bacillus subtilis arabinoxylan arabinofuranohydrolase (XynD;BsAXH-m23;BSU18160)
This glycosyl hydrolase family 43 (GH43) subgroup includes characterized Bacillus subtilis arabinoxylan arabinofuranohydrolase (AXH), Caldicellulosiruptor sp. Tok7B.1 beta-1,4-xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8) / alpha-L-arabinosidase (EC 3.2.1.55) XynA, Caldicellulosiruptor sp. Rt69B.1 xylanase C (EC 3.2.1.8) XynC, and Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus beta-xylosidase (EC 3.2.1.37)/ alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase (EC 3.2.1.55) XynF. It belongs to the glycosyl hydrolase clan F (according to carbohydrate-active enzymes database (CAZY)) which includes family 43 (GH43) and 62 (GH62) families. It belongs to the GH43_AXH-like subgroup which includes enzymes that have been annotated as having beta-xylosidase, alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase and arabinoxylan alpha-L-1,3-arabinofuranohydrolase, xylanase (endo-alpha-L-arabinanase) as well as AXH activities. GH43 are inverting enzymes (i.e. they invert the stereochemistry of the anomeric carbon atom of the substrate) that have an aspartate as the catalytic general base, a glutamate as the catalytic general acid and another aspartate that is responsible for pKa modulation and orienting the catalytic acid. Many GH43 enzymes display both alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase and beta-D-xylosidase activity using aryl-glycosides as substrates. AXHs specifically hydrolyze the glycosidic bond between arabinofuranosyl substituents and xylopyranosyl backbone residues of arabinoxylan. Bacillus subtilis AXH (BsAXH-m2,3) has been shown to cleave arabinose units from O-2- or O-3-mono-substituted xylose residues and superposition of its structure with known structures of the GH43 exo-acting enzymes, beta-xylosidase and alpha-L-arabinanase, each in complex with their substrate, reveals a different orientation of the sugar backbone. Several of these enzymes also contain carbohydrate binding modules (CBMs) that bind cellulose or xylan. A common structural feature of GH43 enzymes is a 5-bladed beta-propeller domain that contains the catalytic acid and catalytic base. A long V-shaped groove, partially enclosed at one end, forms a single extended substrate-binding surface across the face of the propeller.
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