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. 2002 Aug 1;365(Pt 3):773–781. doi: 10.1042/BJ20020168

Interactions defining the specificity between fungal xylanases and the xylanase-inhibiting protein XIP-I from wheat.

Ruth Flatman 1, W Russell McLauchlan 1, Nathalie Juge 1, Caroline Furniss 1, Jean-Guy Berrin 1, Richard K Hughes 1, Paloma Manzanares 1, John E Ladbury 1, Ronan O'Brien 1, Gary Williamson 1
PMCID: PMC1222710  PMID: 11955286

Abstract

We previously reported on the xylanase-inhibiting protein I (XIP-I) from wheat [McLauchlan, Garcia-Conesa, Williamson, Roza, Ravestein and Maat (1999), Biochem. J. 338, 441-446]. In the present study, we show that XIP-I inhibits family-10 and -11 fungal xylanases. The K(i) values for fungal xylanases ranged from 3.4 to 610 nM, but bacterial family-10 and -11 xylanases were not inhibited. Unlike many glycosidase inhibitors, XIP-I was not a slow-binding inhibitor of the Aspergillus niger xylanase. Isothermal titration calorimetry of the XIP-I-A. niger xylanase complex showed the formation of a stoichiometric (1:1) complex with a heat capacity change of -1.38 kJ x mol(-1) x K(-1), leading to a predicted buried surface area of approx. 2200+/-500 A(2) at the complex interface. For this complex with A. niger xylanase (K(i)=320 nM at pH 5.5), titration curves indicated that an observable interaction occurred at pH 4-7, and this was consistent with the pH profile of inhibition of activity. In contrast, the stronger complex between A. nidulans xylanase and XIP-I (K(i)=9 nM) led to an observable interaction across the entire pH range tested (3-9). Using surface plasmon resonance, we show that the differences in the binding affinity of XIP-I for A. niger and A. nidulans xylanase are due to a 200-fold lower dissociation rate k(off) for the latter, with only a small difference in association rate k(on).

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