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Classification and Characteristics of Chitin/Chitosan Hydrolases

키틴/키토산 가수분해효소의 분류 및 특성

  • Lee, Han-Seung (Department of Bio-Food Materials, College of Medical and Life Sciences, Silla University)
  • 이한승 (신라대학교 의생명과학대학 바이오식품소재학과)
  • Published : 2008.11.30
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Abstract

Chitin and chitosan, which is deacetylated form of chitin, are one of the most abundant biomass on the earth. They showed various biological activities including antimicrobial activity, heavy metal chelating, immune system activation, and have very diverse applications in food, pharmaceutical, medicinal, and environmental industry. There have been reported many chitin/chitosan-hydrolyzing enzymes, their structures and genes from three domains, archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. Carbohydrate hydrolyzing enzymes are classified in CAZy (Carbohydrate Active Enzymes) database according to their amino acid sequence similarity. Interestingly, chitinases and chitosanases are classified in various glycosyl hydrolase(GH) families, GH2, GH5, GH7, GH8, GH18, GH19, GH20, GH46, GH48, GH73, GH75, GH80, GH84, and GH85. Here, we review characteristics and structures of chitin/chitosan hydrolyzing enzymes according to glycosyl hydrolase families in order to provide information about gene mining.

키틴과 그 탈아세틸화된 형태인 키토산은 지구 상에 가장 풍부하게 존재하는 바이오매스의 하나이다. 키틴과 키토산은 항균활성, 면역증강, 중금속 흡착 등 다양한 생리활성을 보이고 있으며 식품, 의약품, 환경산업 등에서 다양하게 응용되고 있다. 이러한 키틴/키토산을 가수분해하는 효소들과 그 3차구조, 유전자들이 세균, 고세균, 진핵생물등 모든 생물종에서 보고되어 왔다. 탄수화물을 가수분해하는 효소들은 그 아미노산 서열에 따라 CAZy (Carbohydrate Active Enzymes) 데이터베이스에 분류되었는데 흥미롭게도 최근까지 키틴가수분해효소와 키토산가수분해효소들은 14개의 glycosyl hydrolase (GH) family들로 분류되어 있다(GH2, GH5, GH7, GH8, GH18, GH19, GH20, GH46, GH48, GH73, GH75, GH80, GH84, GH85). 본 총설에서는 새로운 유전자원를 찾기위한 한 방편으로서 최근에 새롭게 분류된 glycosyl hydrolase family의 분류법에 따라 각각의 GH family에 속하는 키틴/키토산가수분해효소의 종류 및 구조, 그리고 그 효소적 특징에 대하여 논하고자 한다.

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