BACKGROUND: Substitutions on the xylan main chain are widely accepted to limit plant cell wall degradability and acetylations are considered as one of the most important obstacles. Hence, understanding the modes of action of a range of acetylxylan esterases (AcXEs) is of ample importance not only to increase the understanding of the enzymology of plant decay/bioremediation but also to enable efficient bioconversion of plant biomass. METHODS: In this study, the modes of action of acetylxylan esterases (AcXEs) belonging to carbohydrate esterase (CE) families 1, 4, 5 and 6 on xylooligosaccharides generated from hardwood acetyl glucuronoxylan were compared using MALDI ToF MS. Supporting data were obtained by following enzymatic deacetylation by (1)H NMR spectroscopy. CONCLUSIONS: None of the used enzymes were capable of complete deacetylation, except from linear xylooligosaccharides which were completely deacetylated by some of the esterases in the presence of endoxylanase. A clear difference was observed between the performance of the serine-type esterases of CE families 1, 5 and 6, and the aspartate-metalloesterases of family CE4. The difference is mainly due to the inability of CE4 AcXEs to catalyze deacetylation of 2,3-di-O-acetylated xylopyranosyl residues. Complete deacetylation of a hardwood acetyl glucuronoxylan requires additional deacetylating enzyme(s). GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE: The results contribute to the understanding of microbial degradation of plant biomass and outline the way to achieve complete saccharification of plant hemicelluloses which did not undergo alkaline pretreatment.
BACKGROUND: Substitutions on the xylan main chain are widely accepted to limit plant cell wall degradability and acetylations are considered as one of the most important obstacles. Hence, understanding the modes of action of a range of acetylxylan esterases (AcXEs) is of ample importance not only to increase the understanding of the enzymology of plant decay/bioremediation but also to enable efficient bioconversion of plant biomass. METHODS: In this study, the modes of action of acetylxylan esterases (AcXEs) belonging to carbohydrate esterase (CE) families 1, 4, 5 and 6 on xylooligosaccharides generated from hardwood acetyl glucuronoxylan were compared using MALDI ToF MS. Supporting data were obtained by following enzymatic deacetylation by (1)H NMR spectroscopy. CONCLUSIONS: None of the used enzymes were capable of complete deacetylation, except from linear xylooligosaccharides which were completely deacetylated by some of the esterases in the presence of endoxylanase. A clear difference was observed between the performance of the serine-type esterases of CE families 1, 5 and 6, and the aspartate-metalloesterases of family CE4. The difference is mainly due to the inability of CE4 AcXEs to catalyze deacetylation of 2,3-di-O-acetylated xylopyranosyl residues. Complete deacetylation of a hardwood acetyl glucuronoxylan requires additional deacetylating enzyme(s). GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE: The results contribute to the understanding of microbial degradation of plant biomass and outline the way to achieve complete saccharification of plant hemicelluloses which did not undergo alkaline pretreatment.
Keywords:
4-O-methyl-d-glucuronic acid or 4-O-methyl-d-glucuronosyl; 4-O-methyl-d-glucuronosyl–α-1,2-d-xylopyranosyl–β-1,4-xylopyranosyl–β-1,4-xylopyranose (the upper index indicates the number of the xylosyl residues from the reducing end substituted with MeGlcA); AcXE; Acetyl glucuronoxylan; Acetylxylan esterase; CE; Carbohydrate esterase family; HexXyl(x)Ac(y); MALDI ToF MS; MeGlcA; MeGlcA(3)Xyl(3); MeGlcAXyl(x)Ac(y); NMR; Positional specificity; UXyl(x)Ac(y); Xyl(2)–Xyl(7); Xyl(x)Ac(y); Xylp; acetylated aldouronic acid containing one MeGlcA, x xylose residues and y acetyl groups; acetylated β-1,4-xylooligosaccharide containing x xylose residues and y acetyl groups; acetylxylan esterase; carbohydrate esterase; d-xylopyranose or d-xylopyranosyl; oligosaccharide containing an unknown component U, x xylose residues and y acetyl groups; oligosaccharide containing one hexopyranose residue of unknown nature, x xylose residues and y acetyl groups; β-1,4-xylobiose–β-1,4-xyloheptaose
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