The Ruminococcus bromii amylosome protein Sas6 binds single and double helical α-glucan structures in starch.
Amanda L. Photenhauer, Filipe M. Cerqueira, Rosendo C. Villafuerte-Vega, Krista M. Armbruster, Filip Mareček, Tiantian Chen, Zdzislaw Wawrzak, Jesse B. Hopkins, Craig W. Vander Kooi, Ŝtefan Janeĉek, Brandon T. Ruotolo, Nicole M. Koropatkin
This study presents the crystal structures of Sas6 and RbCBM74 bound to maltodecaose, showing their binding specificity for single and double helical α-glucan structures in starch.
bioRxiv · Nov 20, 2022 · PreprintMolecular Biology