Cellulosomes: bacterial nanomachines for dismantling plant polysaccharides

Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 83 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.164 Authors: Lior Artzi, Edward A. Bayer & Sarah Moraïs Cellulosomes are multienzyme complexes that are produced by anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria for the degradation of lignocellulosic biomass. They comprise a complex of scaffoldin, which is the structural subunit, and various enzymatic subunits. The intersubunit interactions in these multienzyme complexes are mediated by cohesin and dockerin
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