• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.218-224
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• 1997

Platelet-activating factor (PAF) acetylhydrolase, which removes the acetyl moiety at the sn-2 position, has been found in human amniotic fluid. We purified this enzyme by ammonium sulfate precipitation, and sequential use of DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B, hydroxyapatite, chelating-Sepharose, and Mono Q column chromatographies. This enzyme exhibited broad pH optima and was unaffected by EDTA. Partially purified enzyme had a molecular weight of approximately 34 kDa on SDS-PAGE. In addition, the enzyme activity was inhibited by either diisopropylfluorophosphate(DFP) or p-bromophenacylbromide (p-BPB), suggesting that this enzyme possesses active serine and histidine residues. The enzyme showed similar activity towards PAF and oxidatively modified phosphatidylcholine, but didn't hydrolyze phosphatidylcholine or phosphatidylethanolamine with a long chain fatty acyl group at sn-2 position.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.167-171
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• 1991

An intracellular protease from cells of Pseudomonas carboxydohydrogena grown on nutrient broth was purified to better than 95% homogeneity in five steps using azocaseine as a substrate. The molecular weight of the native enzyme was determined to be 125, 000. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis revealedat least two non-identical subunits of molecular weight 70, 000 and 56, 000. The enzyme activity was completely ingibited by phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride and diisopropyl fluorophosphate. The enzyme was also inhibited by $Mg^{2+}$ , $Zn^{2+}$ , $Cd^{2+}$, $Cu^{2+}$ , and $Fe^{2+}$ , but was stimulated by iodoacetamide. Maximal reaction rate of the enzyme was observed at pH8.0 and 30.deg.C. The isoelectric point of the enzyme was found to be 7.5. The enzyme was unable to hydrolyze carbon monoxide dehydrogenase.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.283-288
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• 2004

Superoxide dismutase (SOD) from tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruit was purified by ammonium sulphate precipitation, Sephadex G-100 and DEAE-cellulose column chromatographies. A 22 fold purification and an overall yield of 44% were achieved. The purified enzyme was a homodimer with Mr 37.1 kDa and subunit Mr 18.2 kDa as judged by SDS-PAGE. SOD showed $K_{m}$ values of 25 ${\times}$ 10$^{-6}$ M and 1.7 ${\times}$ 10$^{-6}$ M for nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) and riboflavin as substrates, respectively. The enzyme was thermostable upto 5$0^{\circ}C$ and exhibited pH optima of 7.8. The effect of metal ions and some other compounds on enzyme activity was studied. $Co^{2+}$ and $Mg^{2+}$ were found to enhance relative enzyme activities by 27 % and 73 %, respectively, while M $n^{2+}$ inhibited the SOD activity by 64%. However, $Ca^{2+}$ and C $u^{2+}$ had no effect on enzyme activity. Other compounds like $H_2O$$_2$ and Na $N_3$ inhibited enzymatic activities by 60% and 32%, respectively, while sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS), chloroform plus ethanol and $\beta$-mercaptoethanol had no effect on the activity of SOD. of SOD.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2003

Chitinase and chitobiase produced by Aeromonas sp. J-5003 were purified and characterized. The chitinase was purified to 19.4 folds by gel chromatography and ion-exchange chromatography with the overall yield of $2.2\%$ and the specific activity of 93.1 unit/mg. The purified enzyme showed a single band on SDS-PAGE with MW 54kDa. The optimum pH and temperature of the purified chitinase were 7.0 and $37^{\circ}C$, respectively, and this enzyme stable in the range of pH 6.0 to 10.0 below $37^{\circ}C$. $Mg^{2+},\;Ca^{2+}\;and\;Na^+$ slightly stimulated the chitinase activity. However, $Hg^{2+}\;and\;Fe^{3+}$ inhibited chitinase activity. The chitobiase was purified by Sephacryl HR-l00 gel chromatography and DEAE-Sephadex A-50 ion-exchange chromatography with 33.5 purification folds and $4.3\%$ yield. The purified enzyme showed a single band with MW 63 kDa. The optimum pH and temperature of the purified chitobiase were 7.0 and $37^{\circ}C$, respectively. And this enzyme was stable in the range of pH 6.0 to 9.0 and at the temperature below $37^{\circ}C$. The enzyme activity was increased by $Mn^{2+}$, but it was inhibited by $Ag^+$.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.507-514
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• 1998

The strain K-54, the best producer of fibrinolytic enzyme, was isolated from Korean traditional food Chung Guk Jang and identified as Bacillus subtilis. Fibrinolytic enzyme was purified and characterized, and its molecular weight was determined. The fibrinolytic enzyme activity was increased about 66.9 times via purification with recovery yield of 10.1%. The optimum pH and temperature of this enzyme were 11 and $65^{\circ}C$. The enzyme was stable within a pH range 8-12 and unstable at 9$0^{\circ}C$. The molecular weight was estimated to be 29,000 dalton in the form of monomer with no other subunit. The isoelectric point was calculated 8.67. N-terminal sequence was identified Ala-Gly-Ser-Val-Pro-Try-Gly-Ser. Km value of the enzyme for $\alpha$-casein was calculated to be 0.31 (3.1 mg/$m\ell$). The enzyme activity highly inhibited by PMSF at 1 nM.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.638-642
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• 2000

A ${\beta}-glycosidase$ enzyme with $\beta$-D-fucosidase, ${\beta}-D-galactosidase$, and $\beta$-D-glucosidase activities has been purified from Thermus caldophilus GK24. The enzyme was monomeric with a molecular mass of 49 kDa, as evidenced by SDS-PAGE. The $K_m$ values for p-nitrophenyl ${\beta}-D-fucopyranoside$ (p-NPFuc), p-nitrophenyl ${\beta}-D-galactopyranoside$ (p-NPGal), and p-nitrophenyl ${\beta}-D-glucopyranoside$ (p-NPGlu) were 0.23 mM, 6.25 mM, and 0.28 mM, respectively. The enzyme showed optimal pH ranging between 5.5-6.5 and maximum temperature in the range of $85-90^{\circ}C$ for all the above mentioned activities. The half-life of the enzyme in sodium phosphate buffer (pH 6.0) at $80^{\circ}C$ was approximately 7 h. The p-NPGal hydrolyzing activity of Tca ${\beta}-glycosidase$ was strongly activated by L-histidine, while the p-NPFuc and p-NPGlu hydrolyzing activities of Tca ${\beta}-glycosidase$ were not affected at all by the amino acid. These results suggest differences in the conformation or in the reactive residues at the active site of Tca ${\beta}-glycosidase$.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.30-37
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• 1995

Membrane-bound alcohol dehydrogenase(ADH) was purified to homogeneity from the acetic acid producing bacteria, Acetobacter sp. KM. The enzyme was solubilized and extracted with Triton X-100 and purified using the Mono-Q ion exchange chromatography and Superose 12 gel filtration chromatography. The enzyme was purified to 12-fold with a yield of 30%. The molecular weight of the purified enzyme was to be 335 KDa. SDS-PAGE of the enzyme showed two subunits with molecular weights of 79 KDa and 49 KDa. It indicated that the enzyme consisted of three subunits of the 79 KDa and two subunits of the 49 KDa. The purified .ADH preferentially oxidized straight chain aliphatic alcohol except methanol. Formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and glutaraldehyde were also oxidized. The apparent Km for ethanol was 1.04 mM and the optimum pH and temperature were 5.0∼6.0 and 32$^{\circ}C$, respectively. V2O5 and divalent cation such as ZnCl2 and NiCl2 inhibited enzymatic activity.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.17 no.4 s.84
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• pp.581-586
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• 2007

Staphylococcus epidermidis is a coagulase-negative, gram-positive bacterium that normally inhabits the human skin. S. epidermidis is also known to be an opportunistic pathogen in infections of various indwelling medical devices. This report describes purification and characterization of the urease of S. epidermidis urease, which may act as a virulence factor. The urease from S. epidermidis was purified 1,127 fold by using DEAE-Sepharose, Phenyl-Sepharose, Mono-Q and Superdex HR200 column chromatography. The specific activity of the purified enzyme was 993.8 U/mg. Michaelis constant($K_m$) of the enzyme was estimated to be 8.5 mM urea by using Lineweaver-Burke double reciprocal plot. The native molecular weight of the urease was shown to be 255 kD by using Superose 6HR gel filtration chromatography and the purified enzyme contained 2.2 nickel ions per catalytic unit. The overall stoichiometry of the enzyme subunits appears to be $(\alpha\beta\gamma)_3$, which is consistent with the enzymes from other bacteria sources.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.310-316
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• 2002

Extracellular cyclodextrin glucanotransferase (CGTase) from Paenibacillus sp. JK-12 was purified through sev-eral purification steps consisting of ammonium sulfate precipitation and chromatographies on DEAE-sephadex A-50 and Mono QIM HR5/5. The purified CGTase exhibited a single band on SDS-PAGE and was estimated to be approximately 82 kDa. The isoelectric point of the enzyme was 7.2 as determined by isoelectric focusing. The CGTase from Paenibacillus sp. JK-12 had a transglucosylation activity at the C-2 position of L-ascorbic acid. The optimum pH and temperature for the CGTase activity were 8.0 and 5$0^{\circ}C$, respectively. The enzyme activity was stable from pH 6.0 to 9.() and at temperatures up to 55$^{\circ}C$ at pB 8.0, having 80% residual activity. The activity of the CGTase was strongly resistant to metals such as A $g^{+}$ and $Ba^{2+}$ but slightly inhibited by H $g^{+}$, N $i^{2+}$ and $Mg^{2+}$. The enzymeproduced $\alpha$ -cyclodextrin ($\alpha$-CD) and $\beta$-CD as the main products from starch, but not ${\gamma}$-CD.X>-CD.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.375-379
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• 2002

Methyl mercaptan oxidase was successfully induced in Thiobacillus thioparus TK-m using methyl mercaptan gas, and was purified for the detection of mercaptans. The purification procedure Involved a DEAE (diethylaminoethyl) -Sephacel, or Superose 12, column chromatography with recovery yields of 47.5 and 48.5%, and specific activities of 374 and 1240.8 units/mg-protein, respectively, The molecular weight of the purified methyl mercaptan oxidase was 66.1kDa, as determined by SDS-PAGE. The extract, from gel filtration chromatography oxidizes methyl mercaptan, producing formaldehyde, which can be easily detected by the purpald-coloring method. The optimized temperature for activity was found to be at 55$\^{C}$. This enzyme was inhibited by both NH$_4$Cl and (NH$_4$)$_2$SO$_4$, but was unaffected by either KCl or NaCl at less than 200 mM. With K$_2$SO$_4$, the activity decreased at 20 mM, but recovered at 150 mM. In the presence of methanol, full activity was maintained, but decreased in the presence of glycerin, ethanol and acetone 43, 78 and 75%, respectively.