Cellulosome

Cellulosomes are complexes of cellulolytic enzymes created by bacteria such as Clostridium and Bacteroides. They consist of catalytic subunits such as glycoside hydrolases, polysaccharide lyases and carboxyl esterases bound together by scaffoldins consisting of cohesins connected to other functional units such as the enzymes and carbohydrate binding modules via dockerins. They assist in digestion or degradation of plant cell wall materials, most notably cellulose.

For further details see the description on the specialist carbohydrate active enzyme wiki resource CAZypedia under cellulosome.

See also

• Dockerin
• Organelle

External links

• MeSH Cellulosomes
• Shoham Y, Lamed R, Bayer E (1999). "The cellulosome concept as an efficient microbial strategy for the degradation of insoluble polysaccharides.". Trends Microbiol 7 (7): 275–81. doi:10.1016/S0966-842X(99)01533-4. PMID 10390637. 
• "The cellulosome: an exocellular, multiprotein complex specialized in cellulose degradation"
• Overview at wzw.tum.de (in English)
• Overview at Ed Bayer's Lab at the Weizmann Institute
• Diagram at Lamed's Lab, Tel Aviv University
• Cellulosome at Cazypedia