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Cellulosome-like complexes were identified in the broth and sonic extracts of cellobiose-and cellulose-grown cells ofBacteroides cellulosolvens. The extracellular fractions contained three to four major polypeptides and several minor polypeptide bands that were localized in two major gel filtration peaks indicating average molecular weights of about 700 kDa and >10 MDa. A relatively large molecular weight component (Mr 230 kDa) was found to contain carbohydrate, but no apparent enzymatic activity of its own could be detected. The cell sonicate displayed a more complicated polypeptide profile, and glycosylated polypeptides were larger (ca. 310 and 290 kDa) than that of the extracellular fraction. The 230-kDa extracellular component interacted strongly with the GSI isolectin fromGriffonia simplicifolia, exhibited immunochemical cross-reactivity with the S1 subunit of the cellulosome fromClostridium thermocellum, and displayed anomalous pH- and salt-dependent migratory behavior in SDS-PAGE. Taken together, this evidence strongly suggests a structural similarity between the glycoconjugates of these two distinct cellulolytic bacteria. A major 84-kDa polypeptide was identified as a xylanase, and a 50-kDa polypeptide displayed endoglucanase activity. Additional biochemical and cytochemical evidence indicated that cellulosome-like cellulolytic complexes are associated with the cell surface in this bacterium.
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Lamed, R., Morag (Morgenstern), E., Mor-Yosef, O. et al. Cellulosome-like entities inBacteroides cellulosolvens . Current Microbiology 22, 27–33 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02106209
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