The protein could be important in both soil decomposition and soil carbon cycling. There are billions of bacteria, fungi, and viruses in every handful of soil, all of which contribute to the sustenance of the cycle of life. Understanding how these microorganisms interact with one another allows sci
The protein could be important in both soil decomposition and soil carbon cycling.
A three-dimensional structure of the soil virus AMG product, an enzyme known as a chitosanase. The chitosanase is composed of two structural domains . The active site at which the chemical reaction takes place is highlighted by the four yellow and red sticks. Credit: Clyde Smith/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
The detailed atomic structure is unprecedented and reveals for the first time the potential mechanism of this novel enzyme that could play an important role in soil ecology, Janet K. Jansson, chief scientist at the DOE’s“Our collaboration with SLAC has enabled us to decipher previously unknown functions carried out by soil viruses,” Jansson said., recently published their results inResearchers think that the viral AMG in the study encodes an enzyme that performs a degradation reaction on chitin.
“There is a part of the enzyme that is completely new and novel. That’s what’s exciting to me as a structural biologist – to see something we have not seen before, and then try to figure out what its role might be,” Smith said.
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