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http://dx.doi.org/10.5352/JLS.2018.28.9.1056

Isolation of Agarivorans sp. KC-1 and Characterization of Its Thermotolerant β-Agarase  

Min, Kyung-Cheol (Major in Pharmaceutical Engineering, Division of Bioindustry, Silla University)
Lee, Chang-Eun (Department of Green-Chemistry Convergence Engineering, Graduate School, Silla University)
Lee, Dong-Geun (Major in Pharmaceutical Engineering, Division of Bioindustry, Silla University)
Lee, Sang-Hyeon (Major in Pharmaceutical Engineering, Division of Bioindustry, Silla University)
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Journal of Life Science / v.28, no.9, 2018 , pp. 1056-1061 More about this Journal
Abstract
This article reports an agar-degrading marine bacterium and characterizes its agarase. The agar-degrading marine bacterium, KC-1, was isolated from seawater on the shores of Sacheon, in Gyeongnam province, Korea, using Marine Broth 2216 agar medium. To identify the agar-degrading bacterium as Agarivorans sp. KC-1, phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence was used. An extracellular agarase was prepared from a culture medium of Agarivorans sp. KC-1, and used for the characterization of enzyme. The relative activities at 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and $70^{\circ}C$ were 65, 91, 96, 100, 77, and 35%, respectively. The relative activities at pH 5, 6, 7, and 8 were 93, 100, 87, and 82%, respectively. The extracellular agarase showed maximum activity (254 units/l) at pH 6.0 and $50^{\circ}C$ in 20 mM of Tris-HCl buffer. The agarase activity was maintained at 90% or more until 2 hr exposure at $20^{\circ}C$, $30^{\circ}C$ and $40^{\circ}C$, but it was found that the activity decreased sharply from $60^{\circ}C$. A zymogram analysis showed that Agarivorans sp. KC-1 produced 3 agar-degrading enzymes that had molecular weights of 130, 80, and 69 kDa. A thin layer chromatography analysis suggested that Agarivorans sp. KC-1 produced extracellular ${\beta}$-agarases as it hydrolyzed agarose to produce neoagarooligosaccharides, including neoagarohexaose (21.6%), neoagarotetraose (32.2%), and neoagarobiose (46.2%). These results suggest that Agarivorans sp. KC-1 and its thermotolerant ${\beta}$-agarase would be useful for the production of neoagarooligosaccharides that inhibit bacterial growth and delay starch degradation.
Keywords
Agarivorans sp. KC-1; ${\beta}$-agarase; marine bacterium; neoagarooligosaccharides; zymogram;
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