Caracterização funcional e estrutural de uma ?-glucanase GH12 de Aspergillus terreus

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Bruno Augusto [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Microbiologia; Enzimas - Aplicações industriais; Celulase; Aspergillus terreus; Biocombustíveis; Enzymes - Industrial applications
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108896

The enzymatic conversion of polysaccharides from biomass is a key factor in the development of second generation bioethanol. The recalcitrance of lignocellulose to enzymatic degradation and the high cost of hydrolytic enzymes necessary for the depolymerization of polysaccharides found in plant cell wall are significant barriers to large-scale production and commercialization of biofuels and bioproducts derived from plant biomass. In order to rapidly increase the production of biofuel and byproducts cellulosic, a need exists to develop more efficient and lower cost enzymatic cocktails for the conversion of biomass into fermentable sugars. In this context, the study of cell wall degrading enzymes is essential. In this work the enzyme endo-1,4-?-D-glucanase from Aspergillus terreus (ATEG_09894) was cloned for expression in A. nidulans. The expression test showed the expression of a soluble protein. Its identity was confirmed by mass spectrometry. The optimum pH and optimum temperature for the enzyme activity were 5.0 and 55 ºC, respectively. The thermal denaturation showed that above 60 ºC the enzyme starts to lose structure. Interestingly, the enzyme has ?-glucanase and xiloglucanase activities, preferring ?-glucan. Structural characterization showed that ATEG_09894 was expressed correctly folded and the results of SEC and SAXS show that the protein is monomeric in solution and the model of its three dimensional structure indicates that the electrostatic surface molecule contributes to a stable monomer. The data presented in this study are important because they identify peculiarities of ATEG_09894, which acts in the degradation of biomass, suggest the determinants of its selectivity and enzymatic degradation presents, unusual, of ?-glucans and xyloglucans, promising feature for degradation of lignocellulosic material