Potential of insect endogenous cellulases for lignocellulosic break down deciphered using molecular docking studies
Natural product research(2023)
摘要
Insects possess cellulolytic system capable of producing variegate enzymes with multifarious specificities to break down complex lignocellulosic products. Astonishingly, endoglucanases, exoglucanases and β-glycosidases act sequentially in a synergistic system to facilitate the breakdown of cellulose to utilisable energy source glucose. In silico docking studies of endo-β-1,4-glucanase from 19 different insects belonging to six different orders identified that it possesses high affinity for all the six substrates, including CMC, cellulose, cellotriose, cellotetraose, cellopentose and cellohexaose. Additionally, β-glucosidase from nearly all the reported insect sources also showed considerable affinity towards cellobiose. Van der Waals, conventional hydrogen bonds and carbon-hydrogen bonds stabilise the interaction between the enzyme and different substrates. Molecular dynamics simulations also held up the stability of various complexes. Efficient breakdown of lignocelluloses-based substrates becoming a major focus of industrial and academic communities worldwide, this study can perhaps complement the propensity of insect cellulases for prospected applications.
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Insects,cellulose,β-glucosidase,docking,endo-β-1,4-glucanase,degradation
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