Study on binding modes between cellobiose and β-glucosidases from glycoside hydrolase family 1

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Abstract

The hydrolysis of cellobiose by β-glucodisases is an important step of cellulose biodegradation. However, the interactive mechanism between cellobiose and β-glucosidases is still unclear until now. Thus, in this study, we explored the binding modes between cellobiose and three β-glucosidases from glycoside hydrolase family 1 by means of molecular docking. The three β-glucosidases were named as TmGH1 (from bacterium Thermotoga), SsGH1 (from archaea Sulfolobus solfataricus) and TrGH1 (from fungus Trichoderma reesei) respectively, according to the monophyletic groups they belong to. Molecular dockings were performed between cellobiose and the three β-glucosidases, resulting in three optimum docking complexes, that is TmGH1-cellobiose, SsGH1-cellobiose and TrGh1-cellobiose complexes. Our docking results indicated that there were non-bonded interactions between cellobiose and the three β-glucosidases. The binding affinities of the three complexes were −13.6669 kJ/mol, −13.2973 kJ/mol and −18.6492 kJ/mol, respectively. Then the detailed interactions were investigated, which revealed the key amino acid residues interacted with cellobiose by hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) or hydrophobic interactions. It was observed that most of the key residues involved in the non-bonded interactions were equivalent and conserved for the three complexes, and these residues were a glutamine, a histidine, a tyrosine, a phenylalanine, three glutamics, and four tryptophans. This information is of great importance for designing β-glucosidase with higher cellobiose-hydrolyzing efficiency.

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Acknowledgments

We thank editor and anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. The study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50608029, 50978088, 50808073, 51039001), Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate, the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20100161110012), the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (10JJ7005) and the Hunan Key Scientific Research Project (2009FJ1010).

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