Isolation and characterization of pyruvate carboxylase from the extremely thermophilic Bacillus caldotenax

1983 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 741-742
Author(s):  
PHILIP H. WOOD ◽  
TRICHUR K. SUNDARAM ◽  
NINIAN J. BLACKBURN ◽  
ANNE E. MARSH
Keyword(s):  
Pyruvate Carboxylase ◽  
Thermophilic Bacillus ◽  
Isolation And Characterization

scholarly journals Isolation and characterization of isocitrate lyase from a thermophilic Bacillus sp

1978 ◽  
Vol 173 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
R M Chell ◽  
T K Sundaram ◽  
A E Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Denaturation ◽  
Isocitrate Lyase ◽  
Homogeneous State ◽  
Thiol Groups ◽  
Thermophilic Bacillus ◽  
Relative Paucity ◽  
Salt Activation ◽  
Isolation And Characterization ◽  
Mesophilic Bacterium

Isocitrate lyase was isolated in homogeneous state from a thermophilic Bacillus. The enzyme has a mol.wt. of 180000 and a pI of 4.5 and contains threonine as the N-terminal residue. It resembles in size the cognate enzyme from the mesophilic bacterium Pseudomonas indigofera, but is smaller than the enzyme from the eukaryotic fungus Neurospora crassa. All three lyases are tetramers and similar in amino acid composition, but the thermophile enzyme is distinctive from its mesophilic coutnerparts in possessing a lower catalytic-centre activity, greater resistance to chemical and thermal denaturation and fewer thiol groups and in being strongly activated by salts. Salt activation, by 0.4M-KCl, is about 3-fold at 30 degrees C and pH 6.8 and weakens progressively as the temperature or pH is raised. The activation is probably due to a change in the enzyme conformation caused by the electrolyte modifying the interaction between charged groups or between hydrophobic groups in protein. The possible significance of the salt activation, of the relative paucity of thiol groups and of the greater resistance to chemical denaturants is discussed. Besides its effect on the Vmax., KCl produces large increases in the magnitude of several kinetic parameters. A rise in reaction temperature from 30 to 55 degrees C produces a somewhat similar result. In view of these peculiar features, the patterns of inhibition of enzyme activity by compounds such as succinate and phosphoenolpyruvate were examined at 30 and 55 degrees C in the presence and absence of KCl.

Isolation and characterization of a novel thermophilic Bacillus strain degrading long-chain n-alkanes

Extremophiles ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Wang ◽  
Yun Tang ◽  
Shuo Wang ◽  
Ru-Lin Liu ◽  
Mu-Zhi Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermophilic Bacillus ◽  
Bacillus Strain ◽  
Isolation And Characterization ◽  
Long Chain

The isolation and characterization of 18 equine microsatellite loci, TKY272–TKY289

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Tozaki ◽  
H Kakoi ◽  
S Mashima ◽  
K Hirota ◽  
T Hasegawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microsatellite Loci ◽  
Isolation And Characterization
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