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.
Department/s
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