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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in the two clades actually have distinct substrate specificities remains to be demonstrated.   Dicot GH3 enzymes are shown in red, monocots in blue and purple, and lower plants in green.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Thongpoo2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from ''Kluyveromyces marxianus'' (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , ''Trichoderma reesei'' (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of small-molecule inhibitors of NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, some of which have been designed to be selective for GH3 NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''B. subtilis'' NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;biblio&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in the two clades actually have distinct substrate specificities remains to be demonstrated.   Dicot GH3 enzymes are shown in red, monocots in blue and purple, and lower plants in green.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Thongpoo2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of small-molecule inhibitors of NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, some of which have been designed to be selective for GH3 NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''B. subtilis'' NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in the two clades actually have distinct substrate specificities remains to be demonstrated.   Dicot GH3 enzymes are shown in red, monocots in blue and purple, and lower plants in green.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Thongpoo2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of small-molecule inhibitors of NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, some of which have been designed to be selective for GH3 NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''B. subtilis'' NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
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#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
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#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
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#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
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#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in the two clades actually have distinct substrate specificities remains to be demonstrated.   Dicot GH3 enzymes are shown in red, monocots in blue and purple, and lower plants in green.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Thongpoo2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of small-molecule inhibitors of NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, some of which have been designed to be selective for GH3 NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''B. subtilis'' NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in the two clades actually have distinct substrate specificities remains to be demonstrated.   Dicot GH3 enzymes are shown in red, monocots in blue and purple, and lower plants in green.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Thongpoo2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of small-molecule inhibitors of NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, some of which have been designed to be selective for GH3 NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''B. subtilis'' NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
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#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
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#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in the two clades actually have distinct substrate specificities remains to be demonstrated.   Dicot GH3 enzymes are shown in red, monocots in blue and purple, and lower plants in green.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Thongpoo2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of small-molecule inhibitors of NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, some of which have been designed to be selective for GH3 NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''B. subtilis'' NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in the two clades actually have distinct substrate specificities remains to be demonstrated.   Dicot GH3 enzymes are shown in red, monocots in blue and purple, and lower plants in green.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of small-molecule inhibitors of NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, some of which have been designed to be selective for GH3 NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''B. subtilis'' NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in the two clades actually have distinct substrate specificities remains to be demonstrated.   Dicot GH3 enzymes are shown in red, monocots in blue and purple, and lower plants in green.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of small-molecule inhibitors of NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, some of which have been designed to be selective for GH3 NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and B. subtilis NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in the two clades actually have distinct substrate specificities remains to be demonstrated.   Dicot GH3 enzymes are shown in red, monocots in blue and purple, and lower plants in green.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;., a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of small-molecule inhibitors of NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, some of which have been designed to be selective for GH3 NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and B. subtilis NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Glycoside Hydrolase Families|GH003]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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== Comment from ^^^Brian Mark^^^, April 2013 ==&lt;br /&gt;
The GH3 page has received a comprehensive update.  The following comments have been addressed.  Thank-you for the input!&lt;br /&gt;
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== Comment from ^^^Shinya Fushinobu^^^, Sept. 2011 ==&lt;br /&gt;
Litzinger et al. (2010) suggested that the acid/base catalyst of 2 domain NagZs (and also 1 domain NagZs) is an Asp-His dyad in the (&amp;amp;beta;/&amp;amp;alpha;)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; domain. pmid: 20826810.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Update to Catalytic Residues section needed? ==&lt;br /&gt;
Given the growing amount of information about the identity of the GH3 catalytic residues - and in particular the acid/base - in different enzymes/subfamilies, I wonder if a update of this section isn't needed?&lt;br /&gt;
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Here are some key acid/base ID references &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Thongpoo2012 Bacik2012 Litzinger2010 Pozzo2010 Yoshida2010 Li2006 Paal2004 Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, one of which also confirms the catalytic nucleophile &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These references are nucleophile-specific studies &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
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=== References ===&lt;br /&gt;
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#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198 // Subfamily 4, 3-D homology model, mutagenesis, kinetic analysis, pH profile, azide rescue&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201 // 1-domain Nag, experimental structure, ligand complex, mobile loop bearing acid/base&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010 pmid=20826810 // 2-domain Nag, strucuture, mutagenesis, kinetic analysis, pH profile, azide rescue unsuccessful&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890 // Subfamily 5, experimental structure, complexes, reduced Km for mutant with PNP-Glc&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765 // Subfamily 5, experimental structure, product complex&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412 //Nag - relevant? Appears to be mis-identification.&lt;br /&gt;
#Paal2004 pmid=14561218 //Subfamily 5, kinetic analysis, pH profile, azide rescue&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178 // Subfamily 5, Glu-473 labelled by N-bromoacetyl-beta-d-glucosylamine&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422 //Subfamily 5, kinetic analysis, pH profile, azide rescue&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536&lt;br /&gt;
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[[User:Harry Brumer|Harry Brumer]] ([[User talk:Harry Brumer|talk]]) 17:55, 14 December 2012 (PST)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in the two clades actually have distinct substrate specificities remains to be demonstrated.   Dicot GH3 enzymes are shown in red, monocots in blue and purple, and lower plants in green.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;., a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of inhibitors that are selective for NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and B. subtilis NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Glycoside Hydrolase Families|GH003]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Brian Mark: '''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in th...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;             '''Figure 1.   Phylogeny of plant GH3 glycoside hydrolases.  '''Plant GH3 enzymes separate into two major groups that are shown here as the ‘β-glucosidase’ clade and a ‘non- β-glucosidase’ clade.  Whether or not all enzymes in the two clades actually have distinct substrate specificities remains to be demonstrated.   Dicot GH3 enzymes are shown in red, monocots in blue and purple, and lower plants in green.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|600px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|500px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|500px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|500px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|500px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;., a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of inhibitors that are selective for NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and B. subtilis NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
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#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
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#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig4.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig5.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig6.png|thumb|right|400px|'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;., a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of inhibitors that are selective for NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 6).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and B. subtilis NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
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#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
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#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
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#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
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#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
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#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
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#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
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#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Brian Mark: '''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colo...&lt;/p&gt;
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'''Figure 6.'''  '''The conserved loop containing the proposed catalytic acid/base histidine of GH3 NagZ enzymes is highly mobile, which''' '''appears to drive substrate distortion to promote glycosidic bond hydrolysis'''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Colour scheme: ''B. subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 4GYJ and 4GYK), ''S. typhimurium'' NagZ (StNagZ) (grey)(PDB: 4GVF).&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Brian Mark: '''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ...&lt;/p&gt;
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'''Figure 5'''.''' Overlay of ''Bacillus subtilis'' NagZ (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX) with a single-domain NagZ from the Gram-negative microbe ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (BcNagZ) (blue) bound to GlcNAc (green) (PDB: 4GNV).  '''The majority of NagZ enzymes encoded by Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes that use a putative histidine/aspartate dyad as the catalytic acid/base, as first described for BsNagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; .&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Brian Mark: '''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conse...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;             '''Figure 4.'''  '''Overlay of  barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI (domain 1 in magenta, and domain 2 in cyan) with the two-domain GH3 NagZ from ''B. subtilis''  (BsNagZ) (yellow) (PDB: 3BMX).  '''GH3 NagZ enzymes contain a conserved histidine/aspartate dyad within a flexible loop of the catalytic domain that has been proposed as the general acid/base.  In contrast to Exo1, the additional domain of BsNagZ does not participate in catalysis.  The catalytic Asp nucleophile however, is conserved across the GH3 family, including the NagZ enzymes.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;., a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of inhibitors that are selective for NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. .5).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and B. subtilis NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2).&lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_2013_Fig3.png|thumb|right|350px|'''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain β-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).]]&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;., a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of inhibitors that are selective for NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. .5).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and B. subtilis NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Glycoside Hydrolase Families|GH003]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Brian Mark: '''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain b-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architectu...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;             '''Figure 3.  Overlay of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI with other known X-ray structures of multi-domain b-glucosidases'''.  While additional domains may be present (''not shown for clarity''), the core two-domain architecture observed for Exo1 and the unusual two-domain active site architecture (Asp nucleophile on domain 1 and general acid/base on domain 2) appears to be a structurally conserved feature of multidomain GH3 β-glucanases.  ''Colour coding'': Exo1 domain 1 (magenta) and domain 2 (cyan) bound to Thiocellobiose (salmon) (PDB: 1IEX);  ''Pseudoalteromonas sp. ''Exo-1,3/1,4-b-glucanase ExoP (grey) (PDB: 3UTO); ''Thermotoga neapolitan'' β-glucosidase 3B  Bgl3B (orange) (PDB: 2X41); ''Kluyveromyces marxianus ''β-glucosidase KmBgl1 (yellow) (PDB: 3ACO); ''Hypocrea jecorina ''β-glucosidase Bgl1 (green) (PDB:3ZYZ);  ''Streptomyces venezuelae'' b-glucosidase DesR (blue) (PDB:  4I3G).&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2). &lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_2.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.''' NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the β-barrel.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;., a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of inhibitors that are selective for NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. .5).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and B. subtilis NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;biblio&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/biblio&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Glycoside Hydrolase Families|GH003]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2). &lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_2.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.''' NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the β-barrel.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;., a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of inhibitors that are selective for NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. .5).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and B. subtilis NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;biblio&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Glycoside Hydrolase Families|GH003]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Glycoside Hydrolase Family 3</title>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2). &lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_2.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.''' NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the β-barrel.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Crystal structures are now available for a number multidomain GH3 members, including barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a mechanistically related β-glucanase from the marine bacterium ''Pseudoalteromonas sp''. &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Nakatani2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as β-glucosidases from Kluyveromyces marxianus (KmBglI) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; , Trichoderma reesei (Cel3A) (PDB: 4I8D (unpublished)), Thermotoga neapolitana &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and a macrolide β-glycosidase / β-glucosidase (DesR) from Streptomyces venezuelae &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Zmudka2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These structures have revealed considerable diversity in architecture and arrangement of domains in GH3 enzymes that are present in addition to the core catalytic domain, and how these domains affect function. Crystal structures of a number of NagZ enzymes are also available, including the two-domain NagZ from B. subtilis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and single domain NagZ enzymes from ''Vibrio cholera'' (PDB: 1TR9 (unpublished)) &amp;amp; &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''S. typhimurium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' (PDB 3TEV (unpublished)) and ''Burkholderia cenocepacia'' (PDB: 4GNV (unpublished)).  Given the role of NagZ in the activation of AmpC-mediated β-lactam resistance in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;., a number of crystallographic and kinetic studies have focused on the development of inhibitors that are selective for NagZ over functionally related human enzymes from families GH20 and GH84 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009 Yamaguchi2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Insight into the broad specificity observed for some GH3 enzymes has been provided from X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modeling of enzyme-substrate complexes of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Recent structural studies of NagZ enzymes from ''S. typhimurium'' and ''B. subtilis'' have shown the flexible catalytic loop participates in distorting the bound terminal GlcNAc sugar toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. .5).  Distortion of the substrate toward a &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; conformation is in agreement with other retaining β-glycosidases; however, this has not been observed for other GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;biblio&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
#Yamaguchi2012 pmid=22844551&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Glycoside Hydrolase Families|GH003]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Glycoside Hydrolase Family 3</title>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2). &lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
Early labeling experiments of a GH3 β-glucosidases from ''Aspergillus wentii'' using conduritol B-epoxide by Bause and Legler in 1974 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; identified an aspartate residue within the sequence VMS'''D'''W as the putative catalytic nucleophile.  This was later supported by the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, which identified Asp285 within the sequence GFVIS'''D'''W as being appropriately positioned to act as a nucleophile during catalysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Direct identification of this aspartate as the catalytic nucleophile via active-site labeling using 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-β-D-glycosides of GH3 β-glucosidases from ''A. niger ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''F. meningosepticum ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, a glucosylceramidase from ''Paenibacillus ''sp &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, as well as the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and labeling of NagZ enzymes from ''V. furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''S.'' ''typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; using 2-acetamido-2-Deoxy-5-Fluoro-β-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride, have confirmed that this catalytic residue is well conserved in GH3 enzymes from diverse species. The conservation of this aspartate becomes clear when known crystal structures of a number of GH3 enzymes are superposed (Fig. 3). &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
Though sequence alignments can now be used to easily identify the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 members, the position of type of general acid/base residue is phylogenetically variable and less readily identifiable. An increase in 3D structural information for GH3 enzymes has recently provided insight into identity of the elusive general acid-base residue. The barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structure is a two-domain enzyme consisting of an N-terminal (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain housing the active site pocket and catalytic aspartate nucleophile (Asp285), and a C-terminal domain with a glutamate residue (Glu 491) that projects into the active site of (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel domain to act as the catalytic acid/base &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Structural studies of additional GH3 enzymes have since shown that while insertion of additional domains is possible (which shifts the location of the glutamic acid general acid-base within the primary sequence with respect to the barely enzyme), the unusual two-domain active site architecture observed for the barley enzyme appears to be a core feature of multidomain GH3 b-glucanases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010 Nakatani2012 Yoshida2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Superposition of available GH3 β-D-glucan glucohydrolase structures clearly reveals the conservation of this architecture (Fig. 3).&lt;br /&gt;
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GH3 NagZ enzymes depart significantly from the above two-domain active site architecture. A crystal structure of NagZ from ''B. subtilis'' recently revealed that the catalytic acid-base is an unusual histidine/aspartate dyad that resides within a flexible loop that is present on the catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel and not on a separate domain &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Though the enzyme adopts a two-domain fold similar to barely β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, the C-terminal domain does not participate in catalysis (Fig. 4).  In fact, most NagZ enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria are single domain enzymes comprised solely of a catalytic (b/a)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; barrel that contains the conserved aspartate nucleophile and a catalytic histidine/aspartate dyad on flexible loop as seen for ''B. subtilis ''NagZ &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 5).  The flexible loop containing the His/Asp dyad is unique to GH3 NagZ enzymes and can be identified by the consensus motif [KH(F/I)PG(H/L)GXXXX'''D'''(S/T)'''H'''] (catalytic dyad highlighted in boldface) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 &amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_2.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.''' NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the β-barrel.]]&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-D-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-D-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The active site of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The broad specificity of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the ''N''-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-''N''-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally-related [[GH20]] ''N''-acetyl-β-hexosaminidases and [[GH84]] O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove β-1,4-linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a mechanism involving [[neighboring group participation]] wherein the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an [[oxazolinium ion]] [[intermediate]] &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Tews1996 Mark2001 Dennis2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] do not possess an enzymic [[catalytic nucleophile]]; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
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#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
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#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
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#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
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#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
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#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
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#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
GH3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates. Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]]. The retention of anomeric configuration has been established experimentally for several enzymes. The active site of GH3 enzymes consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) with an enzymic nucleophile and general acid/base residue flanking the junction of these two subsites (see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Davies1997&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; for subsite nomenclature).  This arrangement of catalytic residues was first visualized in 1999 when the crystal structure of barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase was determined in complex with glucose &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (Fig. 2). &lt;br /&gt;
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Several studies have contributed to the understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of GH3 enzymes, including detailed analyses of β-glucosidases from fungi (''Aspergillus wentii ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bause1974&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Aspergillus niger'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Dan2000 Thongpoo2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) and Gram-negative bacteria (''Flavobacterium meningosepticum'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chir2002 Li2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Thermotoga neapolitana'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Pozzo2010&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;), as well as a GH3 glucosylceramidase from the Gram-positive microbe ''Paenibacillus ''sp. TS12 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Paal2004&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases from plants (barley) have also been carried out &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  These studies, combined with kinetic and mechanistic analyses of ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases from the Gram-positive microbe ''Bacilus subtillus ''&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010b Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and Gram-negative microbes ''Vibrio furnisii'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000 Vocadlo2005&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, ''Vibrio cholerea'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and ''Salmonella typhimerium'' &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Bacik2012&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; confirm that while the catalytic nucleophile of GH3 enzymes is well conserved, the location and identity of the general acid/base residue is not. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic amino acid residues of GH3 members was first informed by the three-dimensional structure of a barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, solved in complex with glucose bound in the -1 subsite &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Whereas the catalytic nucleophile is well conserved among GH3 members from diverse species, the catalytic acid/base has been difficult to generally identify.  In many cases, this residue is borne on a flexible loop structure, which exhibits significant sequence divergence and conformational flexibility.  The following sections detail the definitive assignments of the catalytic residues in a growing number of GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
In plant family 3 β-D-glycosidases, typified by the barley enzyme, active site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The [[catalytic nucleophile]], as identified in the crystal structure of a trapped 2-fluoroglycosyl enzyme, is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[catalytic nucleophile]] for ''Vibrio furnisii'' ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as the corresponding Asp242, which is conserved throughout the family 3 NagZ enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
The [[general acid]], E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A [[general acid]] residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_2.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.''' NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the β-barrel.]]&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-D-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-D-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The active site of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The broad specificity of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the ''N''-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-''N''-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally-related [[GH20]] ''N''-acetyl-β-hexosaminidases and [[GH84]] O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove β-1,4-linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a mechanism involving [[neighboring group participation]] wherein the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an [[oxazolinium ion]] [[intermediate]] &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Tews1996 Mark2001 Dennis2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] do not possess an enzymic [[catalytic nucleophile]]; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl β-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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As more plant genome sequences are published, it is becoming clear that the GH3 glycoside hydrolases in plants are encoded by multi-gene families.  In both monocot and dicot species, there are 15-18 genes for the GH3 enzymes, while in lower plants such as the Physcomitrella and Selaginella mosses 6-7 genes encoding GH3 glycoside hydrolases have been identified.  Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses of the plant GH3 enzymes reveal their separation into two major groups (Fig. 1).  Existing annotations suggest that one plant group might include β-D-glucosidases and the other α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidase and other enzymes.  However, this suggestion is limited to plant GH3 enzymes and must be viewed with caution until further confirmation is obtained, because relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified for detailed characterization of their substrate specificities.  There do not appear to be any confirmed plant β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in either clade.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]].  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The reaction sequence and mechanism of a barley β-glucosidase was further outlined using a range of synthetic inhibitors and crystallographic analysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Detailed kinetic data are also available for a ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase from ''Vibrio furnisii'' (ExoII) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic amino acid residues of GH3 members was first informed by the three-dimensional structure of a barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, solved in complex with glucose bound in the -1 subsite &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Whereas the catalytic nucleophile is well conserved among GH3 members from diverse species, the catalytic acid/base has been difficult to generally identify.  In many cases, this residue is borne on a flexible loop structure, which exhibits significant sequence divergence and conformational flexibility.  The following sections detail the definitive assignments of the catalytic residues in a growing number of GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
In plant family 3 β-D-glycosidases, typified by the barley enzyme, active site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The [[catalytic nucleophile]], as identified in the crystal structure of a trapped 2-fluoroglycosyl enzyme, is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[catalytic nucleophile]] for ''Vibrio furnisii'' ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as the corresponding Asp242, which is conserved throughout the family 3 NagZ enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
The [[general acid]], E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A [[general acid]] residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_2.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.''' NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the β-barrel.]]&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-D-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-D-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The active site of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The broad specificity of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the ''N''-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-''N''-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally-related [[GH20]] ''N''-acetyl-β-hexosaminidases and [[GH84]] O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove β-1,4-linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a mechanism involving [[neighboring group participation]] wherein the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an [[oxazolinium ion]] [[intermediate]] &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Tews1996 Mark2001 Dennis2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] do not possess an enzymic [[catalytic nucleophile]]; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;biblio&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Glycoside Hydrolase Families|GH003]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Brian Mark</name></author>
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		<title>Glycoside Hydrolase Family 3</title>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The GH3 glycoside hydrolase family currently group together β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Widely distributed in bacteria, fungi and plants, GH3 enzymes carry out a range of functions including cellulosic biomass degradation, plant and bacterial cell wall remodeling, energy metabolism and pathogen defense.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate. For example, there are several well-characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and one characterized example of an N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase/β-glucosidase from Cellulomonas fimi (Nag3) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  GH3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are also broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl b-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast to the broad substrate specificities observed for the GH3 enzymes described above, GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases are selective for N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; (though exceptions exist such as Cellulomonas fimi Nag3 &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mayer2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;).  A notable GH3 N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase of prokaryotes is NagZ, which participates in bacterial cell wall recycling (for review see &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Johnson2013&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;) by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides in Gram-negative bacteria &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, or GlcNAc from GlcNAc-MurNAc-peptides in Gram-positive bacteria&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Litzinger2010a&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, .  The NagZ product 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptide is an important activator of AmpC β-lactamase hyper-production in several Gram-negative pathogens, making the enzyme of interest as a potential therapeutic target&amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Mark2011&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]].  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The reaction sequence and mechanism of a barley β-glucosidase was further outlined using a range of synthetic inhibitors and crystallographic analysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Detailed kinetic data are also available for a ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase from ''Vibrio furnisii'' (ExoII) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic amino acid residues of GH3 members was first informed by the three-dimensional structure of a barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, solved in complex with glucose bound in the -1 subsite &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Whereas the catalytic nucleophile is well conserved among GH3 members from diverse species, the catalytic acid/base has been difficult to generally identify.  In many cases, this residue is borne on a flexible loop structure, which exhibits significant sequence divergence and conformational flexibility.  The following sections detail the definitive assignments of the catalytic residues in a growing number of GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
In plant family 3 β-D-glycosidases, typified by the barley enzyme, active site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The [[catalytic nucleophile]], as identified in the crystal structure of a trapped 2-fluoroglycosyl enzyme, is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[catalytic nucleophile]] for ''Vibrio furnisii'' ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as the corresponding Asp242, which is conserved throughout the family 3 NagZ enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
The [[general acid]], E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A [[general acid]] residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_2.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.''' NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the β-barrel.]]&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-D-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-D-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The active site of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The broad specificity of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the ''N''-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-''N''-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally-related [[GH20]] ''N''-acetyl-β-hexosaminidases and [[GH84]] O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove β-1,4-linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a mechanism involving [[neighboring group participation]] wherein the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an [[oxazolinium ion]] [[intermediate]] &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Tews1996 Mark2001 Dennis2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] do not possess an enzymic [[catalytic nucleophile]]; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;biblio&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Glycoside Hydrolase Family 3</title>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The family 3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] have been classified as β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate.  For example, there are several well characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  In another example, the family 3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl b-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast, family 3 ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases (NagZ) are ‘monofunctional’ glycoside hydrolases that remove ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) from glycoconjugates &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Highly conserved in Gram-negative bacteria, NagZ enzymes play an important role in peptidoglycan recycling by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and this activity has been shown to mediate the induction of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Votsch2000 Asgarali2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]].  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The reaction sequence and mechanism of a barley β-glucosidase was further outlined using a range of synthetic inhibitors and crystallographic analysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Detailed kinetic data are also available for a ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase from ''Vibrio furnisii'' (ExoII) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic amino acid residues of GH3 members was first informed by the three-dimensional structure of a barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, solved in complex with glucose bound in the -1 subsite &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Whereas the catalytic nucleophile is well conserved among GH3 members from diverse species, the catalytic acid/base has been difficult to generally identify.  In many cases, this residue is borne on a flexible loop structure, which exhibits significant sequence divergence and conformational flexibility.  The following sections detail the definitive assignments of the catalytic residues in a growing number of GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
In plant family 3 β-D-glycosidases, typified by the barley enzyme, active site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The [[catalytic nucleophile]], as identified in the crystal structure of a trapped 2-fluoroglycosyl enzyme, is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[catalytic nucleophile]] for ''Vibrio furnisii'' ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as the corresponding Asp242, which is conserved throughout the family 3 NagZ enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
The [[general acid]], E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A [[general acid]] residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_2.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.''' NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the β-barrel.]]&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-D-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-D-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The active site of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The broad specificity of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the ''N''-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-''N''-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally-related [[GH20]] ''N''-acetyl-β-hexosaminidases and [[GH84]] O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove β-1,4-linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a mechanism involving [[neighboring group participation]] wherein the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an [[oxazolinium ion]] [[intermediate]] &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Tews1996 Mark2001 Dennis2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] do not possess an enzymic [[catalytic nucleophile]]; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
#Thongpoo2012 pmid=23201198&lt;br /&gt;
#Bacik2012 pmid=23177201&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010a pmid=20826810&lt;br /&gt;
#Pozzo2010 pmid=20138890&lt;br /&gt;
#Yoshida2010 pmid=20662765&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2006 pmid=16717412&lt;br /&gt;
#Pall2004 pmid=14561218&lt;br /&gt;
#Chir2002 pmid=11978178&lt;br /&gt;
#Li2002 pmid=11851422&lt;br /&gt;
#Dan2000 pmid=10671536 &lt;br /&gt;
#Mayer2006 pmid=16762038&lt;br /&gt;
#Johnson2013 pmid=23163477&lt;br /&gt;
#Litzinger2010b pmid=20400549&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2011 pmid=22122439&lt;br /&gt;
#Davies1997 pmid=9020895&lt;br /&gt;
#Bause1974 pmid=4611895&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2005 pmid=16171396&lt;br /&gt;
#Nakatani2012 pmid=22129429&lt;br /&gt;
#Zmudka2013 pmid=23225731&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The family 3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] have been classified as β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate.  For example, there are several well characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  In another example, the family 3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl b-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast, family 3 ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases (NagZ) are ‘monofunctional’ glycoside hydrolases that remove ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) from glycoconjugates &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Highly conserved in Gram-negative bacteria, NagZ enzymes play an important role in peptidoglycan recycling by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and this activity has been shown to mediate the induction of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Votsch2000 Asgarali2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]].  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The reaction sequence and mechanism of a barley β-glucosidase was further outlined using a range of synthetic inhibitors and crystallographic analysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Detailed kinetic data are also available for a ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase from ''Vibrio furnisii'' (ExoII) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic amino acid residues of GH3 members was first informed by the three-dimensional structure of a barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, solved in complex with glucose bound in the -1 subsite &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Whereas the catalytic nucleophile is well conserved among GH3 members from diverse species, the catalytic acid/base has been difficult to generally identify.  In many cases, this residue is borne on a flexible loop structure, which exhibits significant sequence divergence and conformational flexibility.  The following sections detail the definitive assignments of the catalytic residues in a growing number of GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
In plant family 3 β-D-glycosidases, typified by the barley enzyme, active site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The [[catalytic nucleophile]], as identified in the crystal structure of a trapped 2-fluoroglycosyl enzyme, is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[catalytic nucleophile]] for ''Vibrio furnisii'' ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as the corresponding Asp242, which is conserved throughout the family 3 NagZ enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
The [[general acid]], E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A [[general acid]] residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_2.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.''' NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the β-barrel.]]&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-D-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-D-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The active site of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The broad specificity of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the ''N''-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-''N''-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally-related [[GH20]] ''N''-acetyl-β-hexosaminidases and [[GH84]] O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove β-1,4-linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a mechanism involving [[neighboring group participation]] wherein the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an [[oxazolinium ion]] [[intermediate]] &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Tews1996 Mark2001 Dennis2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] do not possess an enzymic [[catalytic nucleophile]]; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;biblio&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Glycoside Hydrolase Families|GH003]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
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		<title>Talk:Glycoside Hydrolase Family 20</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Brian Mark: Created page with &amp;quot;It should be pointed out that the X-ray structures of human Hex A and Hex B have been determined:)  1) Lemieux MJ, et al. (2006) Crystallographic Structure of Human beta-Hexos...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;It should be pointed out that the X-ray structures of human Hex A and Hex B have been determined:)&lt;br /&gt;
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1) Lemieux MJ, et al. (2006) Crystallographic Structure of Human beta-Hexosaminidase A: Interpretation of Tay-Sachs Mutations and Loss of G(M2) Ganglioside Hydrolysis. J Mol Biol.&lt;br /&gt;
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2) Mark BL, et al. (2003) Crystal structure of human beta-hexosaminidase B: understanding the molecular basis of Sandhoff and Tay-Sachs disease. J Mol Biol 327(5):1093-1109.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Glycoside Hydrolase Family 3</title>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The family 3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] have been classified as β-D-glucosidases, α-L-arabinofuranosidases, β-D-xylopyranosidases and ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate.  For example, there are several well characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-L-arabinofuranosidase and β-D-xylopyranosidase activity &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  In another example, the family 3 β-D-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-D-glucan glucohydrolases, are broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-D-glucans, β-D-oligoglucosides and aryl b-D-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and (1,6)-β-D-glucans, 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-D-glucosides and some β-D-oligoxyloglucosides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast, family 3 ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases (NagZ) are ‘monofunctional’ glycoside hydrolases that remove ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) from glycoconjugates &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Chitlaru1996&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Highly conserved in Gram-negative bacteria, NagZ enzymes play an important role in peptidoglycan recycling by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Cheng2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;, and this activity has been shown to mediate the induction of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Votsch2000 Asgarali2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 [[glycoside hydrolases]] remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a [[classical Koshland double-displacement mechanism]] with the β-anomeric configuration of the released glycose being [[retaining|retained]].  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-L-arabinofuranosidase/β-D-xylopyranosidases &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Lee2003 Hrmova1998&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The reaction sequence and mechanism of a barley β-glucosidase was further outlined using a range of synthetic inhibitors and crystallographic analysis &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. Detailed kinetic data are also available for a ''N''-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase from ''Vibrio furnisii'' (ExoII) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic amino acid residues of GH3 members was first informed by the three-dimensional structure of a barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase, solved in complex with glucose bound in the -1 subsite &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Whereas the catalytic nucleophile is well conserved among GH3 members from diverse species, the catalytic acid/base has been difficult to generally identify.  In many cases, this residue is borne on a flexible loop structure, which exhibits significant sequence divergence and conformational flexibility.  The following sections detail the definitive assignments of the catalytic residues in a growing number of GH3 enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic nucleophile ===&lt;br /&gt;
In plant family 3 β-D-glycosidases, typified by the barley enzyme, active site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites (-1 and +1) and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The [[catalytic nucleophile]], as identified in the crystal structure of a trapped 2-fluoroglycosyl enzyme, is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2001&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[catalytic nucleophile]] for ''Vibrio furnisii'' ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as the corresponding Asp242, which is conserved throughout the family 3 NagZ enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vocadlo2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Catalytic acid/base ===&lt;br /&gt;
The [[general acid]], E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A [[general acid]] residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_1.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.'''  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively. Figure from &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GH3_Fig_2.png|thumb|right|300px|'''Figure 2. NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.''' NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the β-barrel.]]&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-D-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-D-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoII from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Harvey2000&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The active site of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The broad specificity of the barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999 Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent β-D-glucosyl residues &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Hrmova2002&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from ''Vibrio cholerae'' has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the ''N''-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts a (β/α)&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-''N''-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally-related [[GH20]] ''N''-acetyl-β-hexosaminidases and [[GH84]] O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove β-1,4-linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a mechanism involving [[neighboring group participation]] wherein the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an [[oxazolinium ion]] [[intermediate]] &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Tews1996 Mark2001 Dennis2006&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] do not possess an enzymic [[catalytic nucleophile]]; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over [[GH20]] and [[GH84]] enzymes &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Stubbs2007 Balcewich2009&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
;First 3D Structure: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
;First Catalytic Residues: Barley β-D-glucan glucohydrolase &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vargese1999&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;biblio&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
#Harvey2000 pmid=10966578&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee2003 pmid=12464603&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova1998 Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
#Chitlaru1996 pmid=8969206&lt;br /&gt;
#Cheng2000 pmid=10940025&lt;br /&gt;
#Votsch2000 pmid=10978324&lt;br /&gt;
#Asgarali2009 pmid=19273679&lt;br /&gt;
#Vocadlo2000 pmid=10625486&lt;br /&gt;
#Vargese1999 pmid=10368285&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2001 pmid=11709165&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrmova2002 pmid=12034895&lt;br /&gt;
#Stubbs2007 pmid=17439950&lt;br /&gt;
#Balcewich2009 pmid=19499593&lt;br /&gt;
#Tews1996 pmid=8673609&lt;br /&gt;
#Mark2001 pmid=11124970&lt;br /&gt;
#Dennis2006 pmid=16565725&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/biblio&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Glycoside Hydrolase Families|GH003]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Glycoside Hydrolase Family 3</title>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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There are a very large number of enzymes in this family and most originate from microorganisms.  Their classification is based largely on nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarities of the corresponding genes.  Relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified and characterised in detail.&lt;br /&gt;
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The family 3 enzymes have been classified as β-d-glucosidases, α-l-arabinofuranosidases, β-d-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases [1].  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate.  For example, there are several well characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-l-arabinofuranosidase and β-d-xylopyranosidase activity [2].  In another example, the family 3 β-d-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-d-glucan glucohydrolases, are broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-d-glucans, β-d-oligoglucosides and aryl b-d-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-d-glucans, (1,4)-β-d-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-d-glucans and (1,6)-β-d-glucans, 4nitrophenyl-β-d-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-d-glucosides and some β-d-oligoxyloglucosides [3].&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast, family 3 N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases (NagZ) are ‘monofunctional’ glycoside hydrolases that remove N-acetyl-β-d-glucosamine (GlcNAc) from glycoconjugates [4].  Highly conserved in Gram-negative bacteria, NagZ enzymes play an important role in peptidoglycan recycling by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides [5], and this activity has been shown to mediate the induction of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase [6,7].&lt;br /&gt;
== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 enzymes remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a double displacement mechanism and the b-anomeric configuration of the released glucose molecule is retained.  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-l-arabinofuranosidase/β-d-xylopyranosidases [2, 3].  Detailed kinetic data are also available for a N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnisii (ExoII) [8]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The catalytic amino acid residues for the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases have been identified by chemical and three-dimensional structural procedures [9].  The substrate-binding site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites.  In the plant family 3 β-d-glycosidases the catalytic nucleophile is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif.  The catalytic acid, E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family [1]. The reaction sequence and mechanism have been defined for this enzyme using a range of synthetic inhibitors [10].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic nucleophile for Vibrio furnisii ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as Asp242, which is conserved thought the family 3 NagZ enzymes [8].  A catalytic acid residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-d-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-d-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoII from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites [9].  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute an (α/β)8 TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed [1].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The active site of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme [9].  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The broad specificity of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes [9,11].  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues [11].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:GH3_Fig_1.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively.   Figure from [1].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from Vibrio Cholerae has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc [12] and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives [13].  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts an (α/β)8 TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-N-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally related family 20 N-acetyl-beta-hexosaminidases and family 84 O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove b(1-&amp;gt;4) linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a substrate-assisted mechanism where the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an oxazoline intermediate [14,15,16].  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, family 20 and 84 enzymes do not possess an enzymic nucleophile; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over family 20 and 84 enzymes [12,13].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:GH3_Fig_2.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Figure 2 : NagZ from Vibrio Cholerae in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) [12].  NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the beta-barrel.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First 3D Structure&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Barley [9]. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First Catalytic Residues&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Barley [9].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
1.  Harvey, A.J., Hrmova, M., De Gori, R., Varghese, J.N. and Fincher, G.B. (2000) Comparative modeling of the three-dimensional structures of family 3 glycoside hydrolases. Proteins:  Struct. Funct. Genet. 41:257-269.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
2.  Lee, R.C., Hrmova, M., Burton, R.A., Lahnstein, J. and Fincher, G.B. (2003) Bifunctional Family 3  Glycoside Hydrolases from Barley with α-L-Arabinofuranosidase and β-D-Xylosidase Activity: Characterization, Primary Structures and COOH-terminal processing. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 5377-5387.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
3.    Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
4.    Chitlaru, E. &amp;amp; Roseman, S. (1996). Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel beta-N-acetyl-D- glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnissii. J Biol Chem 271, 33433-9.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
5.    Cheng, Q., Li, H., Merdek, K. &amp;amp; Park, J. T. (2000). Molecular characterization of the beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and its role in cell wall recycling. J Bacteriol 182, 4836-40.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
6.    Votsch, W. &amp;amp; Templin, M. F. (2000). Characterization of a beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and elucidation of its role in muropeptide recycling and beta-lactamase induction. J Biol Chem 275, 39032-8&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
7.    Asgarali, A., Stubbs, K. A., Oliver, A., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Inactivation of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ attenuates antipseudomonal beta-lactam resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53, 2274-82.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
8.    Vocadlo, D. J., Mayer, C., He, S. &amp;amp; Withers, S. G. (2000). Mechanism of action and identification of Asp242 as the catalytic nucleophile of Vibrio furnisii N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase using 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-5-fluoro-alpha-L-idopyranosyl fluoride. Biochemistry 39, 117-26.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
9.     Varghese, J.N., Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1999) Three-dimensional structure of a barley b-D-glucan exohydrolase; a family 3 hydrolase.  Structure 7,179-190.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
10.  Hrmova, M., Varghese, J.N., De Gori, R., Smith, B.J., Driguez, H. and Fincher, G.B. (2001) Catalytic Mechanisms and Reaction Intermediates along the Hydrolytic Pathway of a Plant β-d-Glucan Glucohydrolase.  Structure 9, 1005-1016.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
11.   Hrmova M, De Gori R, Smith BJ, Fairweather JK, Driguez H, Varghese JN, Fincher GB (2002) Structural basis for broad substrate specificity in higher plant β-d-glucan glucohydrolases. The Plant Cell 14, 1033-1052.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
12. Stubbs, K. A., Balcewich, M., Mark, B. L. &amp;amp; Vocadlo, D. J. (2007). Small molecule inhibitors of a glycoside hydrolase attenuate inducible AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance. J Biol Chem 282, 21382-91.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
13. Balcewich, M. D., Stubbs, K. A., He, Y., James, T. W., Davies, G. J., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Insight into a strategy for attenuating AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance: structural basis for selective inhibition of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ. Protein Sci 18, 1541-51.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
14. Tews, I., Perrakis, A., Oppenheim, A., Dauter, Z., Wilson, K. S. &amp;amp; Vorgias, C. E. (1996). Bacterial chitobiase structure provides insight into catalytic mechanism and the basis of Tay-Sachs disease. Nat Struct Biol 3, 638-48.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
15. Mark, B. L., Vocadlo, D. J., Knapp, S., Triggs-Raine, B. L., Withers, S. G. &amp;amp; James, M. N. (2001). Crystallographic evidence for substrate-assisted catalysis in a bacterial beta-hexosaminidase. J Biol Chem 276, 10330-7.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
16. Dennis, R. J., Taylor, E. J., Macauley, M. S., Stubbs, K. A., Turkenburg, J. P., Hart, S. J., Black, G. N., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Davies, G. J. (2006). Structure and mechanism of a bacterial beta-glucosaminidase having O-GlcNAcase activity. Nat Struct Mol Biol 13, 365-71.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Glycoside Hydrolase Families|GH003]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are a very large number of enzymes in this family and most originate from microorganisms.  Their classification is based largely on nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarities of the corresponding genes.  Relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified and characterised in detail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 enzymes have been classified as β-d-glucosidases, α-l-arabinofuranosidases, β-d-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases [1].  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate.  For example, there are several well characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-l-arabinofuranosidase and β-d-xylopyranosidase activity [2].  In another example, the family 3 β-d-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-d-glucan glucohydrolases, are broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-d-glucans, β-d-oligoglucosides and aryl b-d-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-d-glucans, (1,4)-β-d-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-d-glucans and (1,6)-β-d-glucans, 4nitrophenyl-β-d-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-d-glucosides and some β-d-oligoxyloglucosides [3].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In contrast, family 3 N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases (NagZ) are ‘monofunctional’ glycoside hydrolases that remove N-acetyl-β-d-glucosamine (GlcNAc) from glycoconjugates [4].  Highly conserved in Gram-negative bacteria, NagZ enzymes play an important role in peptidoglycan recycling by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides [5], and this activity has been shown to mediate the induction of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase [6,7].&lt;br /&gt;
== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 enzymes remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a double displacement mechanism and the b-anomeric configuration of the released glucose molecule is retained.  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-l-arabinofuranosidase/β-d-xylopyranosidases [2, 3].  Detailed kinetic data are also available for a N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnisii (ExoII) [8]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic amino acid residues for the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases have been identified by chemical and three-dimensional structural procedures [9].  The substrate-binding site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites.  In the plant family 3 β-d-glycosidases the catalytic nucleophile is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif.  The catalytic acid, E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family [1]. The reaction sequence and mechanism have been defined for this enzyme using a range of synthetic inhibitors [10].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic nucleophile for Vibrio furnisii ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as Asp242, which is conserved thought the family 3 NagZ enzymes [8].  A catalytic acid residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-d-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-d-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoII from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites [9].  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute an (α/β)8 TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed [1].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The active site of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme [9].  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The broad specificity of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes [9,11].  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues [11].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:GH3_Fig_1.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively.   Figure from [1].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from Vibrio Cholerae has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc [12] and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives [13].  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts an (α/β)8 TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-N-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally related family 20 N-acetyl-beta-hexosaminidases and family 84 O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove b(1-&amp;gt;4) linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a substrate-assisted mechanism where the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an oxazoline intermediate [14,15,16].  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, family 20 and 84 enzymes do not possess an enzymic nucleophile; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over family 20 and 84 enzymes [12,13].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:GH3_Fig_2.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Figure 2 : NagZ from Vibrio Cholerae in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) [12].  NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the beta-barrel.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First 3D Structure&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Barley [9]. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First Catalytic Residues&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Barley [9].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
1.  Harvey, A.J., Hrmova, M., De Gori, R., Varghese, J.N. and Fincher, G.B. (2000) Comparative modeling of the three-dimensional structures of family 3 glycoside hydrolases. Proteins:  Struct. Funct. Genet. 41:257-269.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
2.  Lee, R.C., Hrmova, M., Burton, R.A., Lahnstein, J. and Fincher, G.B. (2003) Bifunctional Family 3  Glycoside Hydrolases from Barley with α-L-Arabinofuranosidase and β-D-Xylosidase Activity: Characterization, Primary Structures and COOH-terminal processing. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 5377-5387.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
3.    Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
4.    Chitlaru, E. &amp;amp; Roseman, S. (1996). Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel beta-N-acetyl-D- glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnissii. J Biol Chem 271, 33433-9.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
5.    Cheng, Q., Li, H., Merdek, K. &amp;amp; Park, J. T. (2000). Molecular characterization of the beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and its role in cell wall recycling. J Bacteriol 182, 4836-40.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
6.    Votsch, W. &amp;amp; Templin, M. F. (2000). Characterization of a beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and elucidation of its role in muropeptide recycling and beta-lactamase induction. J Biol Chem 275, 39032-8&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
7.    Asgarali, A., Stubbs, K. A., Oliver, A., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Inactivation of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ attenuates antipseudomonal beta-lactam resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53, 2274-82.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
8.    Vocadlo, D. J., Mayer, C., He, S. &amp;amp; Withers, S. G. (2000). Mechanism of action and identification of Asp242 as the catalytic nucleophile of Vibrio furnisii N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase using 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-5-fluoro-alpha-L-idopyranosyl fluoride. Biochemistry 39, 117-26.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
9.     Varghese, J.N., Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1999) Three-dimensional structure of a barley b-D-glucan exohydrolase; a family 3 hydrolase.  Structure 7,179-190.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
10.  Hrmova, M., Varghese, J.N., De Gori, R., Smith, B.J., Driguez, H. and Fincher, G.B. (2001) Catalytic Mechanisms and Reaction Intermediates along the Hydrolytic Pathway of a Plant β-d-Glucan Glucohydrolase.  Structure 9, 1005-1016.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
11.   Hrmova M, De Gori R, Smith BJ, Fairweather JK, Driguez H, Varghese JN, Fincher GB (2002) Structural basis for broad substrate specificity in higher plant β-d-glucan glucohydrolases. The Plant Cell 14, 1033-1052.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
12. Stubbs, K. A., Balcewich, M., Mark, B. L. &amp;amp; Vocadlo, D. J. (2007). Small molecule inhibitors of a glycoside hydrolase attenuate inducible AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance. J Biol Chem 282, 21382-91.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
13. Balcewich, M. D., Stubbs, K. A., He, Y., James, T. W., Davies, G. J., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Insight into a strategy for attenuating AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance: structural basis for selective inhibition of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ. Protein Sci 18, 1541-51.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
14. Tews, I., Perrakis, A., Oppenheim, A., Dauter, Z., Wilson, K. S. &amp;amp; Vorgias, C. E. (1996). Bacterial chitobiase structure provides insight into catalytic mechanism and the basis of Tay-Sachs disease. Nat Struct Biol 3, 638-48.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
15. Mark, B. L., Vocadlo, D. J., Knapp, S., Triggs-Raine, B. L., Withers, S. G. &amp;amp; James, M. N. (2001). Crystallographic evidence for substrate-assisted catalysis in a bacterial beta-hexosaminidase. J Biol Chem 276, 10330-7.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
16. Dennis, R. J., Taylor, E. J., Macauley, M. S., Stubbs, K. A., Turkenburg, J. P., Hart, S. J., Black, G. N., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Davies, G. J. (2006). Structure and mechanism of a bacterial beta-glucosaminidase having O-GlcNAcase activity. Nat Struct Mol Biol 13, 365-71.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Glycoside Hydrolase Families|GH003]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are a very large number of enzymes in this family and most originate from microorganisms.  Their classification is based largely on nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarities of the corresponding genes.  Relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified and characterised in detail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 enzymes have been classified as β-d-glucosidases, α-l-arabinofuranosidases, β-d-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases [1].  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate.  For example, there are several well characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-l-arabinofuranosidase and β-d-xylopyranosidase activity [2].  In another example, the family 3 β-d-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-d-glucan glucohydrolases, are broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-d-glucans, β-d-oligoglucosides and aryl b-d-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-d-glucans, (1,4)-β-d-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-d-glucans and (1,6)-β-d-glucans, 4nitrophenyl-β-d-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-d-glucosides and some β-d-oligoxyloglucosides [3].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In contrast, family 3 N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases (NagZ) are ‘monofunctional’ glycoside hydrolases that remove N-acetyl-β-d-glucosamine (GlcNAc) from glycoconjugates [4].  Highly conserved in Gram-negative bacteria, NagZ enzymes play an important role in peptidoglycan recycling by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides [5], and this activity has been shown to mediate the induction of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase [6,7].&lt;br /&gt;
== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 enzymes remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a double displacement mechanism and the b-anomeric configuration of the released glucose molecule is retained.  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-l-arabinofuranosidase/β-d-xylopyranosidases [2, 3].  Detailed kinetic data are also available for a N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnisii (ExoII) [8]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic amino acid residues for the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases have been identified by chemical and three-dimensional structural procedures [9].  The substrate-binding site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites.  In the plant family 3 β-d-glycosidases the catalytic nucleophile is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif.  The catalytic acid, E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family [1]. The reaction sequence and mechanism have been defined for this enzyme using a range of synthetic inhibitors [10].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic nucleophile for Vibrio furnisii ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as Asp242, which is conserved thought the family 3 NagZ enzymes [8].  A catalytic acid residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-d-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-d-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoII from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites [9].  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute an (α/β)8 TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed [1].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The active site of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme [9].  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The broad specificity of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes [9,11].  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues [11].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:GH3_Fig_1.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively.   Figure from [1].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from Vibrio Cholerae has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc [12] and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives [13].  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts an (α/β)8 TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-N-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally related family 20 N-acetyl-beta-hexosaminidases and family 84 O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove b(1-&amp;gt;4) linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a substrate-assisted mechanism where the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an oxazoline intermediate [14,15,16].  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, family 20 and 84 enzymes do not possess an enzymic nucleophile; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over family 20 and 84 enzymes [12,13].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:GH3_Fig_2.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Figure 2 : NagZ from Vibrio Cholerae in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) [12].  NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the beta-barrel.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First 3D Structure&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Barley [9]. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First Catalytic Residues&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Barley [9].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
1.  Harvey, A.J., Hrmova, M., De Gori, R., Varghese, J.N. and Fincher, G.B. (2000) Comparative modeling of the three-dimensional structures of family 3 glycoside hydrolases. Proteins:  Struct. Funct. Genet. 41:257-269.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
2.  Lee, R.C., Hrmova, M., Burton, R.A., Lahnstein, J. and Fincher, G.B. (2003) Bifunctional Family 3  Glycoside Hydrolases from Barley with α-L-Arabinofuranosidase and β-D-Xylosidase Activity: Characterization, Primary Structures and COOH-terminal processing. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 5377-5387.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
3.    Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
4.    Chitlaru, E. &amp;amp; Roseman, S. (1996). Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel beta-N-acetyl-D- glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnissii. J Biol Chem 271, 33433-9.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
5.    Cheng, Q., Li, H., Merdek, K. &amp;amp; Park, J. T. (2000). Molecular characterization of the beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and its role in cell wall recycling. J Bacteriol 182, 4836-40.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
6.    Votsch, W. &amp;amp; Templin, M. F. (2000). Characterization of a beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and elucidation of its role in muropeptide recycling and beta-lactamase induction. J Biol Chem 275, 39032-8&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
7.    Asgarali, A., Stubbs, K. A., Oliver, A., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Inactivation of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ attenuates antipseudomonal beta-lactam resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53, 2274-82.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
8.    Vocadlo, D. J., Mayer, C., He, S. &amp;amp; Withers, S. G. (2000). Mechanism of action and identification of Asp242 as the catalytic nucleophile of Vibrio furnisii N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase using 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-5-fluoro-alpha-L-idopyranosyl fluoride. Biochemistry 39, 117-26.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
9.     Varghese, J.N., Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1999) Three-dimensional structure of a barley b-D-glucan exohydrolase; a family 3 hydrolase.  Structure 7,179-190.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
10.  Hrmova, M., Varghese, J.N., De Gori, R., Smith, B.J., Driguez, H. and Fincher, G.B. (2001) Catalytic Mechanisms and Reaction Intermediates along the Hydrolytic Pathway of a Plant β-d-Glucan Glucohydrolase.  Structure 9, 1005-1016.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
11.   Hrmova M, De Gori R, Smith BJ, Fairweather JK, Driguez H, Varghese JN, Fincher GB (2002) Structural basis for broad substrate specificity in higher plant β-d-glucan glucohydrolases. The Plant Cell 14, 1033-1052.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
12. Stubbs, K. A., Balcewich, M., Mark, B. L. &amp;amp; Vocadlo, D. J. (2007). Small molecule inhibitors of a glycoside hydrolase attenuate inducible AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance. J Biol Chem 282, 21382-91.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
13. Balcewich, M. D., Stubbs, K. A., He, Y., James, T. W., Davies, G. J., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Insight into a strategy for attenuating AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance: structural basis for selective inhibition of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ. Protein Sci 18, 1541-51.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
14. Tews, I., Perrakis, A., Oppenheim, A., Dauter, Z., Wilson, K. S. &amp;amp; Vorgias, C. E. (1996). Bacterial chitobiase structure provides insight into catalytic mechanism and the basis of Tay-Sachs disease. Nat Struct Biol 3, 638-48.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
15. Mark, B. L., Vocadlo, D. J., Knapp, S., Triggs-Raine, B. L., Withers, S. G. &amp;amp; James, M. N. (2001). Crystallographic evidence for substrate-assisted catalysis in a bacterial beta-hexosaminidase. J Biol Chem 276, 10330-7.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
16. Dennis, R. J., Taylor, E. J., Macauley, M. S., Stubbs, K. A., Turkenburg, J. P., Hart, S. J., Black, G. N., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Davies, G. J. (2006). Structure and mechanism of a bacterial beta-glucosaminidase having O-GlcNAcase activity. Nat Struct Mol Biol 13, 365-71.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are a very large number of enzymes in this family and most originate from microorganisms.  Their classification is based largely on nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarities of the corresponding genes.  Relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified and characterised in detail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 enzymes have been classified as β-d-glucosidases, α-l-arabinofuranosidases, β-d-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases [1].  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate.  For example, there are several well characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-l-arabinofuranosidase and β-d-xylopyranosidase activity [2].  In another example, the family 3 β-d-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-d-glucan glucohydrolases, are broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-d-glucans, β-d-oligoglucosides and aryl b-d-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-d-glucans, (1,4)-β-d-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-d-glucans and (1,6)-β-d-glucans, 4nitrophenyl-β-d-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-d-glucosides and some β-d-oligoxyloglucosides [3].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In contrast, family 3 N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases (NagZ) are ‘monofunctional’ glycoside hydrolases that remove N-acetyl-β-d-glucosamine (GlcNAc) from glycoconjugates [4].  Highly conserved in Gram-negative bacteria, NagZ enzymes play an important role in peptidoglycan recycling by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides [5], and this activity has been shown to mediate the induction of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase [6,7].&lt;br /&gt;
== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 enzymes remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a double displacement mechanism and the b-anomeric configuration of the released glucose molecule is retained.  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-l-arabinofuranosidase/β-d-xylopyranosidases [2, 3].  Detailed kinetic data are also available for a N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnisii (ExoII) [8]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic amino acid residues for the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases have been identified by chemical and three-dimensional structural procedures [9].  The substrate-binding site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites.  In the plant family 3 β-d-glycosidases the catalytic nucleophile is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif.  The catalytic acid, E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family [1]. The reaction sequence and mechanism have been defined for this enzyme using a range of synthetic inhibitors [10].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic nucleophile for Vibrio furnisii ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as Asp242, which is conserved thought the family 3 NagZ enzymes [8].  A catalytic acid residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-d-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-d-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoII from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites [9].  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute an (α/β)8 TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed [1].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The active site of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme [9].  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The broad specificity of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes [9,11].  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues [11].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:GH3_Fig_1.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively.   Figure from [1].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from Vibrio Cholerae has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc [12] and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives [13].  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts an (α/β)8 TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-N-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally related family 20 N-acetyl-beta-hexosaminidases and family 84 O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove b(1-&amp;gt;4) linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a substrate-assisted mechanism where the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an oxazoline intermediate [14,15,16].  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, family 20 and 84 enzymes do not possess an enzymic nucleophile; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over family 20 and 84 enzymes [12,13].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:GH3_Fig_2.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Figure 2 : NagZ from Vibrio Cholerae in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) [12].  NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the beta-barrel.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First 3D Structure&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Barley [9]. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First Catalytic Residues&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Barley [9].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
1.  Harvey, A.J., Hrmova, M., De Gori, R., Varghese, J.N. and Fincher, G.B. (2000) Comparative modeling of the three-dimensional structures of family 3 glycoside hydrolases. Proteins:  Struct. Funct. Genet. 41:257-269.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
2.  Lee, R.C., Hrmova, M., Burton, R.A., Lahnstein, J. and Fincher, G.B. (2003) Bifunctional Family 3  Glycoside Hydrolases from Barley with α-L-Arabinofuranosidase and β-D-Xylosidase Activity: Characterization, Primary Structures and COOH-terminal processing. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 5377-5387.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
3.    Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
4.    Chitlaru, E. &amp;amp; Roseman, S. (1996). Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel beta-N-acetyl-D- glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnissii. J Biol Chem 271, 33433-9.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
5.    Cheng, Q., Li, H., Merdek, K. &amp;amp; Park, J. T. (2000). Molecular characterization of the beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and its role in cell wall recycling. J Bacteriol 182, 4836-40.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
6.    Votsch, W. &amp;amp; Templin, M. F. (2000). Characterization of a beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and elucidation of its role in muropeptide recycling and beta-lactamase induction. J Biol Chem 275, 39032-8&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
7.    Asgarali, A., Stubbs, K. A., Oliver, A., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Inactivation of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ attenuates antipseudomonal beta-lactam resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53, 2274-82.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
8.    Vocadlo, D. J., Mayer, C., He, S. &amp;amp; Withers, S. G. (2000). Mechanism of action and identification of Asp242 as the catalytic nucleophile of Vibrio furnisii N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase using 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-5-fluoro-alpha-L-idopyranosyl fluoride. Biochemistry 39, 117-26.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
9.     Varghese, J.N., Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1999) Three-dimensional structure of a barley b-D-glucan exohydrolase; a family 3 hydrolase.  Structure 7,179-190.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
10.  Hrmova, M., Varghese, J.N., De Gori, R., Smith, B.J., Driguez, H. and Fincher, G.B. (2001) Catalytic Mechanisms and Reaction Intermediates along the Hydrolytic Pathway of a Plant β-d-Glucan Glucohydrolase.  Structure 9, 1005-1016.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
11.   Hrmova M, De Gori R, Smith BJ, Fairweather JK, Driguez H, Varghese JN, Fincher GB (2002) Structural basis for broad substrate specificity in higher plant β-d-glucan glucohydrolases. The Plant Cell 14, 1033-1052.&lt;br /&gt;
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12. Stubbs, K. A., Balcewich, M., Mark, B. L. &amp;amp; Vocadlo, D. J. (2007). Small molecule inhibitors of a glycoside hydrolase attenuate inducible AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance. J Biol Chem 282, 21382-91.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
13. Balcewich, M. D., Stubbs, K. A., He, Y., James, T. W., Davies, G. J., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Insight into a strategy for attenuating AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance: structural basis for selective inhibition of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ. Protein Sci 18, 1541-51.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
14. Tews, I., Perrakis, A., Oppenheim, A., Dauter, Z., Wilson, K. S. &amp;amp; Vorgias, C. E. (1996). Bacterial chitobiase structure provides insight into catalytic mechanism and the basis of Tay-Sachs disease. Nat Struct Biol 3, 638-48.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
15. Mark, B. L., Vocadlo, D. J., Knapp, S., Triggs-Raine, B. L., Withers, S. G. &amp;amp; James, M. N. (2001). Crystallographic evidence for substrate-assisted catalysis in a bacterial beta-hexosaminidase. J Biol Chem 276, 10330-7.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
16. Dennis, R. J., Taylor, E. J., Macauley, M. S., Stubbs, K. A., Turkenburg, J. P., Hart, S. J., Black, G. N., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Davies, G. J. (2006). Structure and mechanism of a bacterial beta-glucosaminidase having O-GlcNAcase activity. Nat Struct Mol Biol 13, 365-71.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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There are a very large number of enzymes in this family and most originate from microorganisms.  Their classification is based largely on nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarities of the corresponding genes.  Relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified and characterised in detail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 enzymes have been classified as β-d-glucosidases, α-l-arabinofuranosidases, β-d-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases [1].  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate.  For example, there are several well characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-l-arabinofuranosidase and β-d-xylopyranosidase activity [2].  In another example, the family 3 β-d-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-d-glucan glucohydrolases, are broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-d-glucans, β-d-oligoglucosides and aryl b-d-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-d-glucans, (1,4)-β-d-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-d-glucans and (1,6)-β-d-glucans, 4nitrophenyl-β-d-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-d-glucosides and some β-d-oligoxyloglucosides [3].&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast, family 3 N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases (NagZ) are ‘monofunctional’ glycoside hydrolases that remove N-acetyl-β-d-glucosamine (GlcNAc) from glycoconjugates [4].  Highly conserved in Gram-negative bacteria, NagZ enzymes play an important role in peptidoglycan recycling by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides [5], and this activity has been shown to mediate the induction of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase [6,7].&lt;br /&gt;
== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 enzymes remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a double displacement mechanism and the b-anomeric configuration of the released glucose molecule is retained.  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-l-arabinofuranosidase/β-d-xylopyranosidases [2, 3].  Detailed kinetic data are also available for a N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnisii (ExoII) [8]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The catalytic amino acid residues for the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases have been identified by chemical and three-dimensional structural procedures [9].  The substrate-binding site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites.  In the plant family 3 β-d-glycosidases the catalytic nucleophile is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif.  The catalytic acid, E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family [1]. The reaction sequence and mechanism have been defined for this enzyme using a range of synthetic inhibitors [10].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic nucleophile for Vibrio furnisii ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as Asp242, which is conserved thought the family 3 NagZ enzymes [8].  A catalytic acid residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-d-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-d-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoII from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites [9].  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute an (α/β)8 TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed [1].&lt;br /&gt;
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The active site of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme [9].  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The broad specificity of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes [9,11].  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues [11].&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:GH3_Fig_1.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively.   Figure from [1].&lt;br /&gt;
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Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from Vibrio Cholerae has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc [12] and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives [13].  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts an (α/β)8 TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-N-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally related family 20 N-acetyl-beta-hexosaminidases and family 84 O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove b(1-&amp;gt;4) linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a substrate-assisted mechanism where the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an oxazoline intermediate [14,15,16].  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, family 20 and 84 enzymes do not possess an enzymic nucleophile; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over family 20 and 84 enzymes [12,13].&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:GH3_Fig_2.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Figure 2 : NagZ from Vibrio Cholerae in complex with PUGNAc (PDB ID: 2OXN) [12].  NagZ enzymes are single domain proteins that adopt a TIM barrel fold.  Active site residues are located within the loops that extend from the C-termini of the strands of the beta-barrel.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
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First 3D Structure&lt;br /&gt;
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Barley [9]. &lt;br /&gt;
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First Catalytic Residues&lt;br /&gt;
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Barley [9].&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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1.  Harvey, A.J., Hrmova, M., De Gori, R., Varghese, J.N. and Fincher, G.B. (2000) Comparative modeling of the three-dimensional structures of family 3 glycoside hydrolases. Proteins:  Struct. Funct. Genet. 41:257-269.&lt;br /&gt;
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2.  Lee, R.C., Hrmova, M., Burton, R.A., Lahnstein, J. and Fincher, G.B. (2003) Bifunctional Family 3  Glycoside Hydrolases from Barley with α-L-Arabinofuranosidase and β-D-Xylosidase Activity: Characterization, Primary Structures and COOH-terminal processing. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 5377-5387.&lt;br /&gt;
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3.    Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
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4.    Chitlaru, E. &amp;amp; Roseman, S. (1996). Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel beta-N-acetyl-D- glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnissii. J Biol Chem 271, 33433-9.&lt;br /&gt;
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5.    Cheng, Q., Li, H., Merdek, K. &amp;amp; Park, J. T. (2000). Molecular characterization of the beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and its role in cell wall recycling. J Bacteriol 182, 4836-40.&lt;br /&gt;
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6.    Votsch, W. &amp;amp; Templin, M. F. (2000). Characterization of a beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and elucidation of its role in muropeptide recycling and beta-lactamase induction. J Biol Chem 275, 39032-8&lt;br /&gt;
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7.    Asgarali, A., Stubbs, K. A., Oliver, A., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Inactivation of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ attenuates antipseudomonal beta-lactam resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53, 2274-82.&lt;br /&gt;
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8.    Vocadlo, D. J., Mayer, C., He, S. &amp;amp; Withers, S. G. (2000). Mechanism of action and identification of Asp242 as the catalytic nucleophile of Vibrio furnisii N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase using 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-5-fluoro-alpha-L-idopyranosyl fluoride. Biochemistry 39, 117-26.&lt;br /&gt;
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9.     Varghese, J.N., Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1999) Three-dimensional structure of a barley b-D-glucan exohydrolase; a family 3 hydrolase.  Structure 7,179-190.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
10.  Hrmova, M., Varghese, J.N., De Gori, R., Smith, B.J., Driguez, H. and Fincher, G.B. (2001) Catalytic Mechanisms and Reaction Intermediates along the Hydrolytic Pathway of a Plant β-d-Glucan Glucohydrolase.  Structure 9, 1005-1016.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
11.   Hrmova M, De Gori R, Smith BJ, Fairweather JK, Driguez H, Varghese JN, Fincher GB (2002) Structural basis for broad substrate specificity in higher plant β-d-glucan glucohydrolases. The Plant Cell 14, 1033-1052.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
12. Stubbs, K. A., Balcewich, M., Mark, B. L. &amp;amp; Vocadlo, D. J. (2007). Small molecule inhibitors of a glycoside hydrolase attenuate inducible AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance. J Biol Chem 282, 21382-91.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
13. Balcewich, M. D., Stubbs, K. A., He, Y., James, T. W., Davies, G. J., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Insight into a strategy for attenuating AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance: structural basis for selective inhibition of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ. Protein Sci 18, 1541-51.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
14. Tews, I., Perrakis, A., Oppenheim, A., Dauter, Z., Wilson, K. S. &amp;amp; Vorgias, C. E. (1996). Bacterial chitobiase structure provides insight into catalytic mechanism and the basis of Tay-Sachs disease. Nat Struct Biol 3, 638-48.&lt;br /&gt;
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15. Mark, B. L., Vocadlo, D. J., Knapp, S., Triggs-Raine, B. L., Withers, S. G. &amp;amp; James, M. N. (2001). Crystallographic evidence for substrate-assisted catalysis in a bacterial beta-hexosaminidase. J Biol Chem 276, 10330-7.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
16. Dennis, R. J., Taylor, E. J., Macauley, M. S., Stubbs, K. A., Turkenburg, J. P., Hart, S. J., Black, G. N., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Davies, G. J. (2006). Structure and mechanism of a bacterial beta-glucosaminidase having O-GlcNAcase activity. Nat Struct Mol Biol 13, 365-71.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are a very large number of enzymes in this family and most originate from microorganisms.  Their classification is based largely on nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarities of the corresponding genes.  Relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified and characterised in detail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 enzymes have been classified as β-d-glucosidases, α-l-arabinofuranosidases, β-d-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases [1].  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate.  For example, there are several well characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-l-arabinofuranosidase and β-d-xylopyranosidase activity [2].  In another example, the family 3 β-d-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-d-glucan glucohydrolases, are broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-d-glucans, β-d-oligoglucosides and aryl b-d-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-d-glucans, (1,4)-β-d-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-d-glucans and (1,6)-β-d-glucans, 4nitrophenyl-β-d-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-d-glucosides and some β-d-oligoxyloglucosides [3].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In contrast, family 3 N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases (NagZ) are ‘monofunctional’ glycoside hydrolases that remove N-acetyl-β-d-glucosamine (GlcNAc) from glycoconjugates [4].  Highly conserved in Gram-negative bacteria, NagZ enzymes play an important role in peptidoglycan recycling by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides [5], and this activity has been shown to mediate the induction of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase [6,7].&lt;br /&gt;
== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Family 3 enzymes remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a double displacement mechanism and the b-anomeric configuration of the released glucose molecule is retained.  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-l-arabinofuranosidase/β-d-xylopyranosidases [2, 3].  Detailed kinetic data are also available for a N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnisii (ExoII) [8]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic amino acid residues for the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases have been identified by chemical and three-dimensional structural procedures [9].  The substrate-binding site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites.  In the plant family 3 β-d-glycosidases the catalytic nucleophile is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif.  The catalytic acid, E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family [1]. The reaction sequence and mechanism have been defined for this enzyme using a range of synthetic inhibitors [10].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic nucleophile for Vibrio furnisii ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as Asp242, which is conserved thought the family 3 NagZ enzymes [8].  A catalytic acid residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-d-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-d-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoII from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites [9].  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute an (α/β)8 TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed [1].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The active site of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme [9].  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The broad specificity of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes [9,11].  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues [11].&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:GH3_Fig_1.png]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Figure 1. Ribbon representation of barley β-glucan exohydrolase isoenzyme ExoI.  Domain 1, domain 2, and the linker region of the enzyme are coloured in magenta, cyan, and yellow, respectively.   Figure from [1].&lt;br /&gt;
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Family 3 NagZ enzymes are also globular, yet have a mass of ~ 36 kDa, which is a distinctive feature of NagZ enzymes from others within the family.  NagZ from Vibrio Cholerae has been determined in complex with GlcNAc (PDB ID: 1Y65) and with the N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase inhibitor PUGNAc [12] and NagZ selective PUGNAc derivatives [13].  The enzyme is comprised of 340 amino acids and adopts an (α/β)8 TIM barrel fold.  The active site pocket is shallow and accommodates the 2-N-acetyl group of a terminal GlcNAc sugar in a solvent accessible groove alongside the binding site for the pyranose ring.  This active site architecture is different from the active site architectures the functionally related family 20 N-acetyl-beta-hexosaminidases and family 84 O-GlcNAcases.  These latter families, which also remove b(1-&amp;gt;4) linked GlcNAc residues from glycoconjugates, use a substrate-assisted mechanism where the carbonyl oxygen of the 2-acetamido group of the terminal GlcNAc acts as a nucleophile, yielding an oxazoline intermediate [14,15,16].  Thus, unlike family 3 NagZ enzymes, family 20 and 84 enzymes do not possess an enzymic nucleophile; however, they do have an appropriately positioned catalytic acid residue.  Together, these mechanistic differences have allowed for the development of 2-N-acyl derivatives of PUGNAc that are selective for family 3 NagZ over family 20 and 84 enzymes [12,13].&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
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First 3D Structure&lt;br /&gt;
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Barley [9]. &lt;br /&gt;
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First Catalytic Residues&lt;br /&gt;
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Barley [9].&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
          Normal.dotm  0  0  1  517  2947  Uiversity of Manitoba  24  5  3619  12.0         0  false      18 pt  18 pt  0  0    false  false  false&lt;br /&gt;
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1.  Harvey, A.J., Hrmova, M., De Gori, R., Varghese, J.N. and Fincher, G.B. (2000) Comparative modeling of the three-dimensional structures of family 3 glycoside hydrolases. Proteins:  Struct. Funct. Genet. 41:257-269.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
2.  Lee, R.C., Hrmova, M., Burton, R.A., Lahnstein, J. and Fincher, G.B. (2003) Bifunctional Family 3  Glycoside Hydrolases from Barley with α-L-Arabinofuranosidase and β-D-Xylosidase Activity: Characterization, Primary Structures and COOH-terminal processing. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 5377-5387.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
3.    Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
4.    Chitlaru, E. &amp;amp; Roseman, S. (1996). Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel beta-N-acetyl-D- glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnissii. J Biol Chem 271, 33433-9.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
5.    Cheng, Q., Li, H., Merdek, K. &amp;amp; Park, J. T. (2000). Molecular characterization of the beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and its role in cell wall recycling. J Bacteriol 182, 4836-40.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
6.    Votsch, W. &amp;amp; Templin, M. F. (2000). Characterization of a beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and elucidation of its role in muropeptide recycling and beta-lactamase induction. J Biol Chem 275, 39032-8&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
7.    Asgarali, A., Stubbs, K. A., Oliver, A., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Inactivation of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ attenuates antipseudomonal beta-lactam resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53, 2274-82.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
8.    Vocadlo, D. J., Mayer, C., He, S. &amp;amp; Withers, S. G. (2000). Mechanism of action and identification of Asp242 as the catalytic nucleophile of Vibrio furnisii N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase using 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-5-fluoro-alpha-L-idopyranosyl fluoride. Biochemistry 39, 117-26.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
9.     Varghese, J.N., Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1999) Three-dimensional structure of a barley b-D-glucan exohydrolase; a family 3 hydrolase.  Structure 7,179-190.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
10.  Hrmova, M., Varghese, J.N., De Gori, R., Smith, B.J., Driguez, H. and Fincher, G.B. (2001) Catalytic Mechanisms and Reaction Intermediates along the Hydrolytic Pathway of a Plant β-d-Glucan Glucohydrolase.  Structure 9, 1005-1016.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
11.   Hrmova M, De Gori R, Smith BJ, Fairweather JK, Driguez H, Varghese JN, Fincher GB (2002) Structural basis for broad substrate specificity in higher plant β-d-glucan glucohydrolases. The Plant Cell 14, 1033-1052.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
12. Stubbs, K. A., Balcewich, M., Mark, B. L. &amp;amp; Vocadlo, D. J. (2007). Small molecule inhibitors of a glycoside hydrolase attenuate inducible AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance. J Biol Chem 282, 21382-91.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
13. Balcewich, M. D., Stubbs, K. A., He, Y., James, T. W., Davies, G. J., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Insight into a strategy for attenuating AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance: structural basis for selective inhibition of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ. Protein Sci 18, 1541-51.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
14. Tews, I., Perrakis, A., Oppenheim, A., Dauter, Z., Wilson, K. S. &amp;amp; Vorgias, C. E. (1996). Bacterial chitobiase structure provides insight into catalytic mechanism and the basis of Tay-Sachs disease. Nat Struct Biol 3, 638-48.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
15. Mark, B. L., Vocadlo, D. J., Knapp, S., Triggs-Raine, B. L., Withers, S. G. &amp;amp; James, M. N. (2001). Crystallographic evidence for substrate-assisted catalysis in a bacterial beta-hexosaminidase. J Biol Chem 276, 10330-7.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
16. Dennis, R. J., Taylor, E. J., Macauley, M. S., Stubbs, K. A., Turkenburg, J. P., Hart, S. J., Black, G. N., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Davies, G. J. (2006). Structure and mechanism of a bacterial beta-glucosaminidase having O-GlcNAcase activity. Nat Struct Mol Biol 13, 365-71.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Substrate specificities ==&lt;br /&gt;
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There are a very large number of enzymes in this family and most originate from microorganisms.  Their classification is based largely on nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarities of the corresponding genes.  Relatively few members of the enzyme family have been purified and characterised in detail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 enzymes have been classified as β-d-glucosidases, α-l-arabinofuranosidases, β-d-xylopyranosidases and N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases [1].  In many cases the enzymes have dual or broad substrate specificities with respect to monosaccharide residues, linkage position and chain length of the substrate.  For example, there are several well characterized ‘bifunctional’ enzymes in the family that have both α-l-arabinofuranosidase and β-d-xylopyranosidase activity [2].  In another example, the family 3 β-d-glucosidases from barley, which are more precisely referred to as β-d-glucan glucohydrolases, are broad specificity exo-hydrolases that remove single glucosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of a range of β-d-glucans, β-d-oligoglucosides and aryl b-d-glucosides, including (1,3)-β-d-glucans, (1,4)-β-d-glucans, (1,3;1,4)-β-d-glucans and (1,6)-β-d-glucans, 4nitrophenyl-β-d-glucoside, certain cyanogenic β-d-glucosides and some β-d-oligoxyloglucosides [3].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In contrast, family 3 N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidases (NagZ) are ‘monofunctional’ glycoside hydrolases that remove N-acetyl-β-d-glucosamine (GlcNAc) from glycoconjugates [4].  Highly conserved in Gram-negative bacteria, NagZ enzymes play an important role in peptidoglycan recycling by removing GlcNAc from 1,6-anhydroMurNAc-peptides [5], and this activity has been shown to mediate the induction of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase [6,7].&lt;br /&gt;
== Kinetics and Mechanism ==&lt;br /&gt;
          Normal.dotm  0  0  1  89  508  Uiversity of Manitoba  4  1  623  12.0         0  false      18 pt  18 pt  0  0    false  false  false&lt;br /&gt;
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Family 3 enzymes remove single glycosyl residues from the non-reducing ends of their substrates.  Catalysis occurs via a double displacement mechanism and the b-anomeric configuration of the released glucose molecule is retained.  The stereochemistry of the reaction has been determined experimentally for some family 3 enzymes.  Detailed kinetic analyses are available for two purified barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases and two barley ‘bifunctional’ α-l-arabinofuranosidase/β-d-xylopyranosidases [2, 3].  Detailed kinetic data are also available for a N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnisii (ExoII) [8]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Catalytic Residues ==&lt;br /&gt;
          Normal.dotm  0  0  1  137  781  Uiversity of Manitoba  6  1  959  12.0         0  false      18 pt  18 pt  0  0    false  false  false&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic amino acid residues for the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolases have been identified by chemical and three-dimensional structural procedures [9].  The substrate-binding site consists of two glucosyl-binding subsites and the catalytic amino acid residues are located between these two subsites.  In the plant family 3 β-d-glycosidases the catalytic nucleophile is Asp285, which is located in a highly conserved GFVISDW motif.  The catalytic acid, E491, is highly conserved in plant family 3 enzymes but is more difficult to locate in more distantly related members of the family [1]. The reaction sequence and mechanism have been defined for this enzyme using a range of synthetic inhibitors [10].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The catalytic nucleophile for Vibrio furnisii ExoII (a NagZ) has been identified chemically as Asp242, which is conserved thought the family 3 NagZ enzymes [8].  A catalytic acid residue has not been identified for family 3 NagZ enzymes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Three-dimensional structures ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The family 3 β-d-glycosidases are globular monomeric enzymes of molecular mass around 60-70 kDa.  The 3D structure of the β-d-glucan glucohydrolase isoenzyme ExoII from barley, determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.2 Å resolution, shows a two-domain, globular protein of 605 amino acid residues that is N-glycosylated at three sites [9].  The two domains are connected by a 16-amino acid helix-like linker.  The first 357 residues constitute an (α/β)8 TIM barrel domain.  The second domain consists of residues 374 to 559 arranged in a six-stranded β-sandwich, which contains a β-sheet of five parallel β-strands and one antiparallel β-strand, with 3 α-helices on either side of the sheet.  A long antiparallel loop of 42 amino acid residues is found at the COOH-terminus of the enzyme.  In some bacterial GH3 enzymes the order of the domains is reversed [1].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The active site of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase consists of a relatively shallow substrate-binding pocket that is located at the interface of the two domains of the enzyme [9].  The active site pocket can accommodate the two glucosyl residues at the non-reducing terminus of the substrate and aligns the non-reducing terminal glycosidic linkage of the substrate with the catalytic amino acid residues Asp285 and Glu491.  Thus, the catalytic amino acid residues are located on domains 1 and 2, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The broad specificity of the barley β-d-glucan glucohydrolase can be rationalized from the X-ray crystallographic data and from molecular modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes [9,11].  The glucosyl residue occupying binding subsite –1 is tightly locked into a relatively fixed position through interactions with six amino acid residues near the bottom of the shallow active site pocket.  In contrast, the glucosyl residue at subsite +1 is located between two tryptophan residues at the entrance of the pocket, where it is less tightly constrained.  The flexibility of binding at subsite +1, coupled with the projection of the remainder of bound substrate away from the enzyme’s surface, means that the overall active site is largely independent of substrate conformation and will therefore accommodate a range of substrates in which the spatial dispositions of adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues vary as a result of glycosidic linkages between different C atoms of the adjacent b-d-glucosyl residues [11].&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:GH3_Fig1.png|thumb|widthpx| ]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family Firsts ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First 3D Structure&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Barley [9]. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
First Catalytic Residues&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Barley [9].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
          Normal.dotm  0  0  1  517  2947  Uiversity of Manitoba  24  5  3619  12.0         0  false      18 pt  18 pt  0  0    false  false  false&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
1.  Harvey, A.J., Hrmova, M., De Gori, R., Varghese, J.N. and Fincher, G.B. (2000) Comparative modeling of the three-dimensional structures of family 3 glycoside hydrolases. Proteins:  Struct. Funct. Genet. 41:257-269.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
2.  Lee, R.C., Hrmova, M., Burton, R.A., Lahnstein, J. and Fincher, G.B. (2003) Bifunctional Family 3  Glycoside Hydrolases from Barley with α-L-Arabinofuranosidase and β-D-Xylosidase Activity: Characterization, Primary Structures and COOH-terminal processing. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 5377-5387.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
3.    Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1998) Barley ß-D-glucan exohydrolases. Substrate specificity and kinetic properties.  Carbohydr. Res. 305, 209-221.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
4.    Chitlaru, E. &amp;amp; Roseman, S. (1996). Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel beta-N-acetyl-D- glucosaminidase from Vibrio furnissii. J Biol Chem 271, 33433-9.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
5.    Cheng, Q., Li, H., Merdek, K. &amp;amp; Park, J. T. (2000). Molecular characterization of the beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and its role in cell wall recycling. J Bacteriol 182, 4836-40.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
6.    Votsch, W. &amp;amp; Templin, M. F. (2000). Characterization of a beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase of Escherichia coli and elucidation of its role in muropeptide recycling and beta-lactamase induction. J Biol Chem 275, 39032-8&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
7.    Asgarali, A., Stubbs, K. A., Oliver, A., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Inactivation of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ attenuates antipseudomonal beta-lactam resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53, 2274-82.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
8.    Vocadlo, D. J., Mayer, C., He, S. &amp;amp; Withers, S. G. (2000). Mechanism of action and identification of Asp242 as the catalytic nucleophile of Vibrio furnisii N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase using 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-5-fluoro-alpha-L-idopyranosyl fluoride. Biochemistry 39, 117-26.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
9.     Varghese, J.N., Hrmova, M. and Fincher, G.B. (1999) Three-dimensional structure of a barley b-D-glucan exohydrolase; a family 3 hydrolase.  Structure 7,179-190.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
10.  Hrmova, M., Varghese, J.N., De Gori, R., Smith, B.J., Driguez, H. and Fincher, G.B. (2001) Catalytic Mechanisms and Reaction Intermediates along the Hydrolytic Pathway of a Plant β-d-Glucan Glucohydrolase.  Structure 9, 1005-1016.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
11.   Hrmova M, De Gori R, Smith BJ, Fairweather JK, Driguez H, Varghese JN, Fincher GB (2002) Structural basis for broad substrate specificity in higher plant β-d-glucan glucohydrolases. The Plant Cell 14, 1033-1052.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
12. Stubbs, K. A., Balcewich, M., Mark, B. L. &amp;amp; Vocadlo, D. J. (2007). Small molecule inhibitors of a glycoside hydrolase attenuate inducible AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance. J Biol Chem 282, 21382-91.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
13. Balcewich, M. D., Stubbs, K. A., He, Y., James, T. W., Davies, G. J., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Mark, B. L. (2009). Insight into a strategy for attenuating AmpC-mediated beta-lactam resistance: structural basis for selective inhibition of the glycoside hydrolase NagZ. Protein Sci 18, 1541-51.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
14. Tews, I., Perrakis, A., Oppenheim, A., Dauter, Z., Wilson, K. S. &amp;amp; Vorgias, C. E. (1996). Bacterial chitobiase structure provides insight into catalytic mechanism and the basis of Tay-Sachs disease. Nat Struct Biol 3, 638-48.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
15. Mark, B. L., Vocadlo, D. J., Knapp, S., Triggs-Raine, B. L., Withers, S. G. &amp;amp; James, M. N. (2001). Crystallographic evidence for substrate-assisted catalysis in a bacterial beta-hexosaminidase. J Biol Chem 276, 10330-7.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
16. Dennis, R. J., Taylor, E. J., Macauley, M. S., Stubbs, K. A., Turkenburg, J. P., Hart, S. J., Black, G. N., Vocadlo, D. J. &amp;amp; Davies, G. J. (2006). Structure and mechanism of a bacterial beta-glucosaminidase having O-GlcNAcase activity. Nat Struct Mol Biol 13, 365-71.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;'''Brian Mark''' obtained his BSc in Biology from the University of Winnipeg, Canada in 1995, which he followed with an MSc degree in Biochemistry from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1998.  He completed his PhD degree at the University of Alberta with Michael James in 2003, studying the structure and catalytic mechanism of human and bacterial N-acetyl-β-hexosaminidases (GH20).  His postdoctoral research was carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, working with Thomas Terwilliger and Geoffrey Waldo to develop new methods to enhance the solubility of recombinant proteins for structural analysis.  In 2005, Dr. Mark returned to Canada and joined the Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor.  He investigates the structural biology of enzymes within the Gram-negative peptidoglycan recycling pathway and how their products regulate the inducible expression of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase.  The glycoside hydrolase NagZ (GH3) is of particular interest in this pathway since it produces a peptidoglycan metabolite that positively regulates AmpC beta-lactamase expression.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;'''Brian Mark''' obtained his BSc in Biology from the University of Winnipeg, Canada in 1995, which was followed by an MSc degree in Biochemistry from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1998.  He completed his PhD degree at the University of Alberta with Michael James in 2003, studying the structure and catalytic mechanism of human and bacterial N-acetyl-β-hexosaminidases (GH20).  His postdoctoral research was carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, working with Thomas Terwilliger and Geoffrey Waldo to develop new methods to enhance the solubility of recombinant proteins for structural analysis.  In 2005, Dr. Mark returned to Canada and joined the Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor.  He investigates the structural biology of enzymes within the Gram-negative peptidoglycan recycling pathway and how their products regulate the inducible expression of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase.  The glycoside hydrolase NagZ (GH3) is of particular interest in this pathway since it produces a peptidoglycan metabolite that positively regulates AmpC beta-lactamase expression.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;'''Brian Mark''' obtained his BSc in Biology from the University of Winnipeg, Canada in 1995, which was followed by an MSc degree in Biochemistry from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1998.  He completed his PhD degree at the University of Alberta with Michael James in 2003, studying the structure and catalytic mechanism of human and bacterial N-acetyl-beta-hexosaminidases (GH20).  His postdoctoral research was carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, working with Thomas Terwilliger and Geoffrey Waldo to develop new methods to enhance the solubility of recombinant proteins for structural analysis.  In 2005, Dr. Mark returned to Canada and joined the Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor.  He investigates the structural biology of enzymes within the Gram-negative peptidoglycan recycling pathway and how their products regulate the inducible expression of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase.  The glycoside hydrolase NagZ (GH3) is of particular interest in this pathway since it produces a peptidoglycan metabolite that positively regulates AmpC beta-lactamase expression.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;'''Brian Mark''' obtained his BSc in Biology from the University of Winnipeg, Canada in 1995, which was followed by an MSc degree in Biochemistry from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1998.  He completed his PhD degree at the University of Alberta with Michael James in 2003, studying the structure and catalytic mechanism of human and bacterial N-acetyl-&amp;amp;beta-hexosaminidases (GH20).  His postdoctoral research was carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, working with Thomas Terwilliger and Geoffrey Waldo to develop new methods to enhance the solubility of recombinant proteins for structural analysis.  In 2005, Dr. Mark returned to Canada and joined the Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor.  He investigates the structural biology of enzymes within the Gram-negative peptidoglycan recycling pathway and how their products regulate the inducible expression of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase.  The glycoside hydrolase NagZ (GH3) is of particular interest in this pathway since it produces a peptidoglycan metabolite that positively regulates AmpC beta-lactamase expression.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;'''Brian Mark''' obtained his BSc in Biology from the University of Winnipeg, Canada in 1995, which was followed by an MSc degree in Biochemistry from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1998.  He completed his PhD degree at the University of Alberta with Michael James in 2003, studying the structure and catalytic mechanism of human and bacterial N-acetyl-beta-hexosaminidases (GH20).  His postdoctoral research was carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, working with Thomas Terwilliger and Geoffrey Waldo to develop new methods to enhance the solubility of recombinant proteins for structural analysis.  In 2005, Dr. Mark returned to Canada and joined the Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor.  He investigates the structural biology of enzymes within the Gram-negative peptidoglycan recycling pathway and how their products regulate the inducible expression of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase.  The glycoside hydrolase NagZ (GH3) is of particular interest in this pathway since it produces a peptidoglycan metabolite that positively regulates AmpC beta-lactamase expression.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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'''Brian Mark''' obtained his BSc in Biology from the University of Winnipeg, Canada in 1995, which was followed by an MSc degree in Biochemistry from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1998.  He completed his PhD degree at the University of Alberta with Michael James in 2003, studying the structure and catalytic mechanism of human and bacterial N-acetyl-beta-hexosaminidases (GH20).  His postdoctoral research was carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, working with Thomas Terwilliger and Geoffrey Waldo to develop new methods to enhance the solubility of recombinant proteins for structural analysis.  In 2005, Dr. Mark returned to Canada and joined the Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor.  He investigates the structural biology of enzymes within the Gram-negative peptidoglycan recycling pathway and how their products regulate the inducible expression of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase.  The glycoside hydrolase NagZ (GH3) is of particular interest in this pathway since it produces a peptidoglycan metabolite that positively regulates AmpC beta-lactamase expression.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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