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Abstract
Cellulases and related β-1,4-glucanases are essential components of lignocellulose-degrading enzyme mixtures. The detection of β-1,4-glucanase activity typically relies on monitoring the breakdown of purified lignocellulose-derived substrates or synthetic chromogenic substrates, limiting the activities which can be detected and complicating the tracing of activity back to specific components within complex enzyme mixtures. As a tool for the rapid detection and identification of β-1,4-glucanases, a series of glycosylated cyclophellitol inhibitors mimicking β-1,4-glucan oligosaccharides have been synthesised. These compounds are highly efficient inhibitors of HiCel7B, a well-known GH7 endo -β-1,4-glucanase. An elaborated activity-based probe facilitated the direct detection and identification of β-1,4-glucanases within a complex fungal secretome without any detectable cross-reactivity with β- d -glucosidases. These probes and inhibitors add valuable new capacity to the growing toolbox of cyclophellitol-derived probes for the activity-based profiling of biomass-degrading enzymes.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 148-155 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | RSC Chemical Biology |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 28 Jul 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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RS Research Professorship
Davies, G. J. (Principal investigator)
1/01/17 → 31/12/27
Project: Research project (funded) › Research
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Application of activity-based glycosidase probes for mechanism, enzyme discovery and clinical diagnosis
Davies, G. J. (Principal investigator)
BBSRC (BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL)
1/01/18 → 31/12/21
Project: Research project (funded) › Research