Biology:Glycoside hydrolase family 18

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Glycosyl hydrolases family 18
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crystal structure of a native chitinase from aspergillus fumigatus yj-407
Identifiers
SymbolGlyco_hydro_18
PfamPF00704
Pfam clanCL0058
InterProIPR001223
SCOP21ctn / SCOPe / SUPFAM
OPM superfamily117
OPM protein1nh6
CDDcd00598
Membranome1385

In molecular biology, Glycoside hydrolase family 18 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.

Glycoside hydrolases EC 3.2.1. are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolases, based on sequence similarity, has led to the definition of >100 different families.[1][2][3] This classification is available on the CAZy web site,[4][5] and also discussed at CAZypedia, an online encyclopedia of carbohydrate active enzymes.[6][7]

Some members of this family, CAZY GH_18, belong to the chitinase class II group which includes chitinase, chitodextrinase and the killer toxin of Kluyveromyces lactis. The chitinases hydrolyse chitin oligosaccharides. Another chitinase II member is the novel gene Chitinase domain-containing protein 1. The family also includes various glycoproteins from mammals; cartilage glycoprotein and the oviduct-specific glycoproteins are two examples.

References

  1. "Conserved catalytic machinery and the prediction of a common fold for several families of glycosyl hydrolases". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 92 (15): 7090–4. July 1995. doi:10.1073/pnas.92.15.7090. PMID 7624375. Bibcode1995PNAS...92.7090H. 
  2. "Structures and mechanisms of glycosyl hydrolases". Structure 3 (9): 853–9. September 1995. doi:10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00220-9. PMID 8535779. 
  3. "Updating the sequence-based classification of glycosyl hydrolases". The Biochemical Journal 316 ( Pt 2) (Pt 2): 695–6. June 1996. doi:10.1042/bj3160695. PMID 8687420. 
  4. "Home" (in en). http://www.cazy.org/. 
  5. "The carbohydrate-active enzymes database (CAZy) in 2013". Nucleic Acids Research 42 (Database issue): D490-5. January 2014. doi:10.1093/nar/gkt1178. PMID 24270786. 
  6. "Glycoside Hydrolase Family 18" (in en). http://www.cazypedia.org/index.php/Glycoside_Hydrolase_Family_18. 
  7. CAZypedia Consortium (December 2018). "Ten years of CAZypedia: a living encyclopedia of carbohydrate-active enzymes". Glycobiology 28 (1): 3–8. doi:10.1093/glycob/cwx089. PMID 29040563. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01886461/file/Hehemann_2018_01.pdf. 
This article incorporates text from the public domain Pfam and InterPro: IPR001223