TY - JOUR
T1 - Observing Thermobifida fusca cellulase binding to pretreated wood particles using time-lapse confocal laser scanning microscopy
AU - Zhu, Paul
AU - Moran-Mirabal, Jose M.
AU - Luterbacher, Jeremy S.
AU - Walker, Larry P.
AU - Craighead, Harold G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments Borafloat wafers were micro-patterned at the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility, a member of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant ECS-0335765). This research was funded by Department Of Energy Contract GO18084. This research made use of the Biofuel Research Laboratories at Cornell University, which was funded by the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation.
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - We report on studies of Thermobifida fusca cellulases Cel5A, Cel6B and Cel9A binding to pretreated wood particles using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM). Hydro-thermal pretreated wood particles were immobilized on borosilicate substrates before fluorescently-labeled cellulase solutions at various concentrations were added. Time-lapse CLSM revealed that cellulases Cel5A, Cel6B and Cel9A quickly bound to certain areas of wood particles, slowly diffused into and adsorbed to less accessible areas, but showed little affinity for other areas of the wood. Cellulase-to-substrate association constants were estimated using a transient enzyme binding kinetics model, and were found to be in agreement with published values. In order to accurately account for the fluorescence signal of labeled enzyme mixed with wood autofluorescence, we also developed a spectral deconvolution method to separate signals from multiple fluorochromes.
AB - We report on studies of Thermobifida fusca cellulases Cel5A, Cel6B and Cel9A binding to pretreated wood particles using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM). Hydro-thermal pretreated wood particles were immobilized on borosilicate substrates before fluorescently-labeled cellulase solutions at various concentrations were added. Time-lapse CLSM revealed that cellulases Cel5A, Cel6B and Cel9A quickly bound to certain areas of wood particles, slowly diffused into and adsorbed to less accessible areas, but showed little affinity for other areas of the wood. Cellulase-to-substrate association constants were estimated using a transient enzyme binding kinetics model, and were found to be in agreement with published values. In order to accurately account for the fluorescence signal of labeled enzyme mixed with wood autofluorescence, we also developed a spectral deconvolution method to separate signals from multiple fluorochromes.
KW - Cellulose
KW - CLSM
KW - Enzyme binding kinetics
KW - Transient model
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U2 - 10.1007/s10570-011-9506-2
DO - 10.1007/s10570-011-9506-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79955750895
SN - 0969-0239
VL - 18
SP - 749
EP - 758
JO - Cellulose
JF - Cellulose
IS - 3
ER -