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Engineered xyloglucan specificity in a carbohydrate-binding module.

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Summary, in English

The field of plant cell wall biology is constantly growing and consequently so is the need for more sensitive and specific probes for individual wall components. Xyloglucan is a key polysaccharide widely distributed in the plant kingdom in both structural and storage tissues that exist in both fucosylated and non-fucosylated variants. Presently, the only xyloglucan marker available is the monoclonal antibody CCRC-M1 that is specific to terminal -1,2-linked fucosyl residues on xyloglucan oligo- and polysaccharides. As a viable alternative to searches for natural binding proteins or creation of new monoclonal antibodies, an approach to select xyloglucan-specific binding proteins from a combinatorial library of the carbohydrate-binding module, CBM4-2, from xylanase Xyn10A of Rhodothermus marinus is described. Using phage display technology in combination with a chemoenzymatic method to anchor xyloglucan to solid supports, the selection of xyloglucan-binding modules with no detectable residual wild-type xylan and ß-glucan-binding ability was achieved.

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

1171-1180

Publication/Series

Glycobiology

Volume

16

Issue

12

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords

  • binding specificity
  • molecular engineering
  • xyloglucan
  • phage display
  • carbohydrate-binding module

Status

Published

Project

  • Designed carbohydrate binding modules and molecular probes

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1460-2423