Ruminococcus flavefaciens 007C cellulosomes and cellulase consortium

Maša VODOVNIK

doi:10.14720/aas.2014.104.2.5

Authors

Maša VODOVNIK Univ. of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Fac., Dept. of Animal Science, Groblje 3, SI-1230 Domžale, Slovenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14720/aas.2014.104.2.5

Keywords:

microbiology, molecular genetics, Ruminococcus flavefaciens, cellulosomes, glycoside hydrolases, anaerobic cellulose degradation

Abstract

Ruminococcus flavefaciens is among the most important cellulolytic bacterial species in rumen and gastrointestinal tract of monogastric herbivorous animals. Its efficiency in degradation of (hemi)cellulosic substrates is associated with the production of remarkably intricate extracellular multienzyme complexes, named cellulosomes. In the present work we investigated the cellulolytic system of 007C. The bioinformatic analysis of the draft genome sequence revealed identical organization of sca gene cluster as has previously been found in four other strains of R. flavefaciens. The cluster consists of five genes in the following order: scaC-scaA-scaB-cttA-scaE. The cellulases of R. flavefaciens 007C belong to four families of glycoside hydrolases, namely GH48, GH44, GH9 in GH5. Majority of these enzymes are putative endoglucanases, belonging to families GH5 and GH9, whereas only one gene encoding GH44 and GH48 was found. Apart from catalytic domains, most of these proteins also contain dockerins – signature sequences, which indicate their attachement to cellulosomes. On the other hand, carbohydrate-binding modules were only found coupled to GH9 catalytic domains. Zymogram analysis showed that larger endoglucanases were mostly constitutively expressed, wheras smaller enzymes were only detected in later phases of Avicel-grown cultures.

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