Purification and characterization of an α-L-arabinofuranosidase from Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 1011-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. F. Lee ◽  
C. W. Forsberg
Keyword(s):  
Clostridium Acetobutylicum ◽  
Culture Fluid ◽  
Purification And Characterization ◽  
Ph Optimum ◽  
Rate Of Hydrolysis ◽  
Single Polypeptide ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Clostridium Acetobutylicum Atcc 824 ◽  
Oat Spelt

An α-L-arabinofuranosidase (EC 3.2.1.55) has been purified from the extracellular culture fluid of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 and characterized. The enzyme was a single polypeptide with a molecular weight of 94 000, an isoelectric point of 8.15, and a pH optimum between pH 5.0 and 5.5. The Km and Vmax values for p-nitrophenyl-α-L-arabinofuranoside were 4.0 mM and 36.4 μmol∙min−1·mg protein−1, respectively. The enzyme had practically no activity against other p-nitrophenylglycosides with the exception of p-nitrophenyl-α-D-glucoside which it hydrolysed at 9% of the rate exhibited on p-nitrophenyl-α-L-arabinofuranoside. It degraded arabinan in an exo-manner, but exhibited no activity on carboxymethylcellulose, arabinogalactan, arabinoxylan, or oat spelt xylan. However, when it was incubated with the purified xylanase B, also obtained from C. acetobutylicum, it acted cooperatively to increase the rate of hydrolysis of oat spelt xylan. Arabinose was detected as one of the hydrolysis products.

scholarly journals Purification and characterization of an extracellular (1 → 6)-β-glucanase from the filamentous fungus Acremonium persicinum

1996 ◽  
Vol 316 (3) ◽  
pp. 841-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart M. PITSON ◽  
Robert J. SEVIOUR ◽  
Barbara M. McDOUGALL ◽  
Bruce A. STONE ◽  
Maruse SADEK
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Mass ◽  
Filamentous Fungus ◽  
Gel Filtration ◽  
Purification And Characterization ◽  
Eisenia Bicyclis ◽  
Ph Optimum ◽  
Hydrolysis Products ◽  
Sds Page ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

An endo-(1 → 6)-β-glucanase has been isolated from the culture filtrates of the filamentous fungus Acremonium persicinum and purified by (NH4)2SO4 precipitation followed by anion-exchange and gel-filtration chromatography. SDS/PAGE of the purified enzyme gave a single band with an apparent molecular mass of 42.7 kDa. The enzyme is a non-glycosylated, monomeric protein with a pI of 4.9 and pH optimum of 5.0. It hydrolysed (1 → 6)-β-glucans (pustulan and lutean), initially yielding a series of (1 → 6)-β-linked oligoglucosides, consistent with endo-hydrolytic action. Final hydrolysis products from these substrates were gentiobiose and gentiotriose, with all products released as β-anomers, indicating that the enzyme acts with retention of configuration. The purified enzyme also hydrolysed Eisenia bicyclis laminarin, liberating glucose, gentiobiose, and a range of larger oligoglucosides, through the apparent hydrolysis of (1 → 6)-β- and some (1 → 3)-β-linkages in this substrate. Km values for pustulan, lutean and laminarin were 1.28, 1.38, and 1.67 mg/ml respectively. The enzyme was inhibited by N-acetylimidazole, N-bromosuccinimide, dicyclohexylcarbodi-imide, Woodward's Regent K, 2-hydroxy-5-nitrobenzyl bromide, KMnO4 and some metal ions, whereas D-glucono-1,5-lactone and EDTA had no effect.

scholarly journals Purification and characterization of a nutritionally controlled endodeoxyribonuclease from Streptomyces glaucescens

1992 ◽  
Vol 281 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
J F Aparicio ◽  
C Hardisson ◽  
J Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Gel Chromatography ◽  
Purification And Characterization ◽  
Ph Optimum ◽  
Double Stranded Dna ◽  
Bivalent Cations ◽  
Apparent Homogeneity ◽  
Absolute Requirement ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Streptomyces Glaucescens

Streptomyces glaucescens has a DNAase whose synthesis is under nutritional control. We have purified this enzyme to apparent homogeneity by phosphocellulose chromatography followed by heparin-agarose, Cibacron Blue F3-GA-Sepharose and Sephadex G-75 chromatography and MonoQ f.p.l.c. The enzyme had an apparent Mr of 39,600 and a pI of approx. 8.15. The Mr of the native enzyme estimated by gel chromatography was 49,000. The DNAase had a pH optimum of 7.5 and an absolute requirement for bivalent cations in the reaction buffer. It was inhibited by high salt concentrations, chelating agents or phosphate-containing compounds and was stimulated by dimethyl sulphoxide. The activity was greatly diminished unless dithiothreitol or 2-mercaptoethanol was included in the reaction mixture. Reagents such as Hg2+ or iodoacetate strongly inhibited the enzyme. The nuclease hydrolysed both double-stranded and single-stranded DNA, showing greater affinity for double-stranded DNA, and no detectable hydrolysis of RNA. The enzyme produced nicks in double-stranded DNA, generating 3′-hydroxy and 5′-phosphate termini, and degraded circular DNA.

scholarly journals Human small-intestinal β-galactosidases. Separation and characterization of three forms of an acid β-galactosidase

1971 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils-Georg Asp
Keyword(s):  
Intestinal Mucosa ◽  
Total Activity ◽  
Small Intestinal Mucosa ◽  
Lactase Activity ◽  
Considerable Part ◽  
Ph Optimum ◽  
Rate Of Hydrolysis ◽  
Small Intestinal ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

1. An acid β-galactosidase, optimum pH4.0–4.5, in the human small-intestinal mucosa was separated and characterized. 2. Autolysis of mucosal homogenates at acid pH inactivated the lactase and hetero β-galactosidase; the total activity of the acid β-galactosidase was only slightly depleted, but a greater proportion of the enzyme was solubilized by this treatment. 3. Separation on a Sephadex G-200 column revealed that the acid β-galactosidase could occur in at least three different forms, probably representing monomer, dimer and octamer or polymer of the enzyme. 4. The properties of the different forms of the acid β-galactosidase were studied with regard to pH optimum, Km, rate of hydrolysis of different substrates, and sensitivity to p-chloromercuribenzoate and tris as inhibitors. All these properties were the same for the different forms of the enzyme. 5. The acid β-galactosidase hydrolyses lactose as well as hetero β-galactosides and contributes to the lactase activity of intestinal biopsies also when measured at pH 6. This enzyme may therefore be responsible for a considerable part of the residual lactase activity found in lactose-intolerant patients.

Polarographic study of hydrolysis of [8-lysine]vasopressin and its derivatives with blood serum of pregnant women

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 1099-1108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikuláš Chavko ◽  
Michal Bartík ◽  
Evžen Kasafírek
Keyword(s):  
Blood Serum ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Degree Of Hydrolysis ◽  
Polarographic Study ◽  
Ph Optimum ◽  
Lysine Vasopressin ◽  
Rate Of Hydrolysis ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Vasopressin Analogues

A polarographic study of the hydrolysis of [8-lysine]vasopressin and some hormonogens of the vasopressin series with the blood serum of women in the last week of pregnancy was studied. The dependence of hydrolysis on pH (pH optimum: 7.4-7.50, substrate concentration (Km 1.2 . 10-5M), pH stability and thermal stability were determined. The rate of hydrolysis of individual vasopressin analogues decreases in the order: [8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-glycyl-prolyl[8-lysine]-vasopressin > Nα-leucyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-alanyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-phenyl alanyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-diglycyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-prolyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-triglycyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-sarcosyl-glycyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin. The degree of hydrolysis gradually increases to a multiple with the length of the pregnancy in consequence of the presence of oxytocine. However, vasopressin is also hydrolysed to a small extent with the enzymes from the blood sera of non-pregnant women. Under similar analytical conditions oxytocin was not hydrolysed with the sera of non-pregnant women and therefore oxytocin is a more suitable substrate than vasopressin for polarographic determination of serum oxytocinase.

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