PROSITE documentation PDOC00415Polygalacturonase active site
Polygalacturonase (EC 3.2.1.15) (PG) (pectinase) [1,2] catalyzes the random hydrolysis of 1,4-α-D-galactosiduronic linkages in pectate and other galacturonans. In fruit, polygalacturonase plays an important role in cell wall metabolism during ripening. In plant bacterial pathogens such as Erwinia carotovora or Pseudomonas solanacearum and fungal pathogens such as Aspergillus niger, polygalacturonase is involved in maceration and soft-rotting of plant tissue.
Exo-poly-α-D-galacturonosidase (EC 3.2.1.82) (exoPG) [3] hydrolyzes peptic acid from the non-reducing end, releasing digalacturonate.
Prokaryotic, eukaryotic PG and exoPG share a few regions of sequence similarity. We selected the best conserved of these regions, which is centered on a conserved histidine most probably involved in the catalytic mechanism [4].
Note:These proteins belong to family 28 in the classification of glycosyl hydrolases [5,E1].
Last update:May 2004 / Text revised.
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| 1 | Authors | Ruttowski E. Labitzke R. Khanh N.Q. Loeffler F. Gottschalk M. |
| Title | Jany K.-D. | |
| Source | Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1087:104-106(1990). |
| 2 | Authors | Huang J.H. Schell M.A. |
| Title | DNA sequence analysis of pglA and mechanism of export of its polygalacturonase product from Pseudomonas solanacearum. | |
| Source | J. Bacteriol. 172:3879-3887(1990). | |
| PubMed ID | 2193922 |
| 3 | Authors | He S.Y. Collmer A. |
| Title | Molecular cloning, nucleotide sequence, and marker exchange mutagenesis of the exo-poly-alpha-D-galacturonosidase-encoding pehX gene of Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16. | |
| Source | J. Bacteriol. 172:4988-4995(1990). | |
| PubMed ID | 2168372 |
| 4 | Authors | Bussink H.J.D. Buxton F.P. Visser J. |
| Title | Expression and sequence comparison of the Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus tubigensis genes encoding polygalacturonase II. | |
| Source | Curr. Genet. 19:467-474(1991). | |
| PubMed ID | 1878999 |
| 5 | Authors | Henrissat B. |
| Title | A classification of glycosyl hydrolases based on amino acid sequence similarities. | |
| Source | Biochem. J. 280:309-316(1991). | |
| PubMed ID | 1747104 |
| E1 | Title | https://www.uniprot.org/docs/glycosid |
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