Characterization and Subcellular Localization of the Clostridium Thermocellum Scaffoldin Dockerin Binding Protein SdbA

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1997 Apr 1

PMID 9098047

Citations 27

Authors

E Leibovitz

H Ohayon

P Gounon

P Beguin

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Abstract

This article reports the characterization of the Clostridium thermocellum SdbA protein thought to anchor the cellulosome to the bacterial cell surface. The NH2-terminal region of SdbA consists of a cohesin domain which specifically binds the dockerin domain of the cellulosomal scaffolding protein CipA. The COOH-terminal region consists of a triplicated segment, termed SLH repeats, which is present in the sequence of many bacterial cell surface polypeptides. The binding parameters of the interaction between the dockerin domain of CipA and the cohesin domain of SdbA were studied by using, as a probe, the chimeric polypeptide CelC-DSCipA, which carries the dockerin domain of CipA fused to endoglucanase CelC. In the presence of Ca2+, CelC-DSCipA bound to SdbA with an affinity constant of 1.26 x 10(7) M(-1). Binding of CelC-DSCipA to SdbA as a function of Ca2+ concentration was sigmoidal, corresponding to a Hill coefficient of 2 and an affinity constant for Ca2+ of 4 x 10(6) M(-2). This suggested the presence of two cooperatively bound Ca2+ ions in the cohesin-dockerin complex. Immunoblotting of C. thermocellum subcellular fractions and electron microscopy of immunocytochemically labeled cells indicated that SdbA is located on the cell surface and is a component of the cellulosome. Together, the data confirm that SdbA could mediate anchoring of the cellulosome to the surface of C. thermocellum cells by interacting with the dockerin domain of CipA.

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