• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.1415-1423
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• 2010

An extracellular xylanase was purified to homogeneity by sequential chromatography of Fomitopsis pinicola culture supernatants on a DEAE-Sepharose column, a gel filtration column, and then on a MonoQ column with fast protein liquid chromatography. The relative molecular mass of the F. pinicola xylanase was determined to be 58 kDa by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and by size-exclusion chromatography, indicating that the enzyme is a monomer. The hydrolytic activity of the xylanase had a pH optimum of 4.5 and a temperature optimum of $70^{\circ}C$. The enzyme showed a $t_{1/2}$ value of 33 h at $70^{\circ}C$ and catalytic efficiency ($k_{cat}=77.4\;s^{-1}$, $k_{cat}/K_m$=22.7 mg/ml/s) for oatspelt xylan. Its internal amino acid sequences showed a significant homology with hydrolases from glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 10, indicating that the F. pinicola xylanase is a member of GH family 10.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.912-919
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• 2012

Carboxymethylcellulose (CM-cellulose)와 Beechwood xylan을 각각 기질로 사용하여 trypan blue를 첨가하여 제작한 Agar-LB 배지 상에서 명확한 활성환을 형성하는 균주를 cellulase와 xylanase 생산 균주로 단리하였다. 단리한 균주 유래의 16S rRNA 유전자 및 API 50 kit를 분석한 결과 Bacillus subtilis와 약 99.5%의 높은 상동성을 보였기에 본 균주를 Bacillus subtilis로 동정하여 B. subtilis NC1로 명명하였다. B. subtilis NC1 유래 cellulase와 xylanase는 CM-cellulose와 Beechwood xylan에 대하여 각각 높은 효소 활성을 보였으며, 두 효소 모두 pH 5.0과 $50^{\circ}C$의 조건하에서 가장 높은 효소 활성을 보였다. B. subtilis NC1 균주 유래 cellulase와 xylanase 유전자를 cloning하기 위하여 shot-gun cloning 방법을 이용하여 B. subtilis NC1 염색체 DNA로부터 효소 유전자를 cloning하여 유전자 배열을 규명한 결과 cellulase 유전자는 아미노산 499개를 암호화하는 1,500 bp의 open reading frame (ORF)으로 이루어져 있었으며, 아미노산 배열로부터 추정되는 분자량은 55,251 Da 이었다. 그리고, xylanase에 대한 유전자는 아미노산 422개를 암호화하는 1,269 bp의 ORF로 이루어져 있었으며 유전자 유래 아미노산 배열로부터 추정되는 단백질 분자량은 47,423 Da 이었다. 두 효소의 아미노산 배열을 이용하여 상동성을 검토한 결과 cellulase는 glycoside hydrolase family (GH) 5에 속하는 cellulase와 xylanase는 GH30에 속하는 xylanase와 높은 상동성을 나타내었다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.463-470
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• 2016

Xylan의 효소적 가수분해는 고부가가치 기능성 물질 또는 바이오에너지 생산을 위한 발효성 당을 얻는 가장 유용한 방법 중 하나이다. endo-${\beta}$-Xylanase는 xylan 주사슬 내부의 ${\beta}$-1,4-결합을 가수분해하여 xylobiose, xylotriose를 포함한 다양한 XOS를 생산하는 핵심 효소이다. 이들 효소 중에서 glucuronoxylanase GH30은 methylglucuronic acid가 측쇄에 수식된 xylan에 특이적으로 작용한다. 본 연구에서는 Paenibacillus amylolyticus KCTC 3005에서 유래한 2종의 xylan 가수분해효소(PaXN_10과 PaGuXN_30) 유전자를 클로닝하고, Escherichia coli에서 각각 발현시켰다. PaXN_10 (38.7 kDa)은 ${\beta}$-xylanase GH10 계열, PaGuXN_30 (58.5 kDa)은 glucuronoxylanase GH30에 해당하는 효소이며, $50^{\circ}C$와 pH 7.0에서 최대 활성을 나타내었다. 가수분해 특성 연구를 통해 P. amylolyticus가 목질계 glucuronoxylan을 분해하는 효소 시스템을 제안하였다. 세포 외로 분비되는 PaGuXN_30은 glucuroxylan을 가수분해하여 methylglucuronic acid 측쇄를 가지는 다양한 aldouronic acid mixtures를 생성하며, 이러한 분해산물은 세포 내로 이동하여 PaXN_GH10에 의해 xylose, xylobiose와 같은 저분자 XOS로 분해되어 세포 내 대사경로에 이용될 수 있다. 또한 이들 효소의 가수분해특성을 이용하여 다양한 탄수화물 소재 생산이 가능할 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.775-784
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• 2017

A neutral xylanase (CcXyn) was identified from Coprinus cinereus. It has a single GH10 catalytic domain with a basic amino acid-rich extension (PVRRK) at the C-terminus. In this study, the wild-type (CcXyn) and C-terminus-truncated xylanase ($CcXyn-{\Delta}5C$) were heterologously expressed in Pichia pastoris and their characteristics were comparatively analyzed with aims to examine the effect of this extension on the enzyme function. The circular dichorism analysis indicated that both enzymes in general had a similar structure, but $CcXyn-{\Delta}5C$ contained less ${\alpha}-helices$ (42.9%) and more random coil contents (35.5%) than CcXyn (47.0% and 32.8%, respectively). Both enzymes had the same pH (7.0) and temperature ($45^{\circ}C$) optima, and similar substrate specificity on different xylans. They all hydrolyzed beechwood xylan primarily to xylobiose and xylotriose. The amounts of xylobiose and xylotriose accounted for 91.5% and 92.2% (w/w) of total xylooligosaccharides (XOS) generated from beechwood by CcXyn and $CcXyn-{\Delta}5C$, respectively. However, truncation of the C-terminal 5-amino-acids extension significantly improved the thermostability, SDS resistance, and pH stability at pH 6.0-9.0. Furthermore, $CcXyn-{\Delta}5C$ exhibited a much lower $K_m$ value than CcXyn (0.27 mg/ml vs 0.83 mg/ml), and therefore, the catalytic efficiency of $CcXyn-{\Delta}5C$ was 2.4-times higher than that of CcXyn. These properties make $CcXyn-{\Delta}5C$ a good model for the structure-function study of $({\alpha}/{\beta})_8$-barrel-folded enzymes and a promising candidate for various applications, especially in the detergent industry and XOS production.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.501-509
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• 2012

A 990 bp full-length gene (xynAHJ2) encoding a 329-residue polypeptide (XynAHJ2) with a calculated mass of 38.4 kDa was cloned from Bacillus sp. HJ2 harbored in a saline soil. XynAHJ2 showed no signal peptide, distinct amino acid stretches of glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 10 intracellular endoxylanases, and the highest amino acid sequence identity of 65.3% with the identified GH 10 intracellular mesophilic endoxylanase iM-KRICT PX1-Ps from Paenibacillus sp. HPL-001 (ACJ06666). The recombinant enzyme (rXynAHJ2) was expressed in Escherichia coli and displayed the typical characteristics of low-temperature-active enzyme (exhibiting optimum activity at $35^{\circ}C$, 62% at $20^{\circ}C$, and 38% at $10^{\circ}C$; thermolability at ${\geq}45^{\circ}C$). Compared with the reported GH 10 low-temperature-active endoxylanases, which are all extracellular, rXynAHJ2 showed low amino acid sequence identities (<45%), low homology (different phylogenetic cluster), and difference of structure (decreased amount of total accessible surface area and exposed nonpolar accessible surface area). Compared with the reported GH 10 intracellular endoxylanases, which are all mesophilic and thermophilic, rXynAHJ2 has decreased numbers of arginine residues and salt bridges, and showed resistance to $Ni^{2+}$, $Ca^{2+}$, or EDTA at 10 mM final concentration. The above mechanism of structural adaptation for low-temperature activity of intracellular endoxylanase rXynAHJ2 is different from that of GH 10 extracellular low-temperature-active endoxylanases. This is the first report of the molecular and biochemical characterizations of a novel intracellular low-temperature-active xylanase.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.670-680
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• 2018

Acanthophysium sp. KMF001, a wood rotting fungus, produces a strong crude enzyme complex that efficiently produces simple sugars from wood. The transcriptomic analysis of Acanthophysium sp. KMF001 identified 14 genes for putative glycoside hydrolases. Among them, isotig01043 was expressed heterogeneously in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3), and the expressed protein exhibited an endo-${\beta}$-1,4-xylanase activity which showed the optimum reaction at pH 5.0 and $30^{\circ}C$. The enzyme kinetic values of $K_m$ and $V_{max}$ were 25.92 mg/ml and $0.628{\mu}mole/mg/ml$, respectively. The enzymatic characteristics of the expressed xylanase showed a typical fungal xylanase. However, the bioinformatics analysis suggested that the protein encoded by isotig01043 was a novel xylanase based on a low identity when it was compared with the closest protein in the NCBI database and a similar protein domain with GH16_fungal_Lam16A_glucanase, which had not been earlier suggested as a xylanase.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.1525-1535
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• 2014

The xynC gene, which encodes high molecular weight xylanase from Paenibacillus sp. DG-22, was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli, and its nucleotide sequence was determined. The xynC gene comprised a 4,419bp open reading frame encoding 1,472 amino acid residues, including a 27 amino acid signal sequence. Sequence analysis indicated that XynC is a multidomain enzyme composed of two family 4_9 carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs), a catalytic domain of family 10 glycosyl hydrolases, a family 9 CBM, and three S-layer homologous domains. Recombinant XynC was purified to homogeneity by heat treatment, followed by Avicel affinity chromatography. SDS-PAGE and zymogram analysis of the purified enzyme identified three active truncated xylanase species. Protein sequencing of these truncated proteins showed that all had identical N-terminal sequences. In the protein characterization, recombinant XynC exhibited optimal activity at pH 6.5 and $65^{\circ}C$ and remained stable at neutral to alkaline pH (pH 6.0-10.0). The xylanase activity of recombinant XynC was strongly inhibited by 1 mM $Cu^{2+}$ and $Hg^{2+}$, whereas it was noticeably enhanced by 10 mM dithiothreitol. The enzyme exhibited strong activity towards xylans, including beechwood xylan and arabinoxylan, whereas it showed no cellulase activity. The hydrolyzed product patterns of birchwood xylan and xylooligosaccharides by thin-layer chromatography confirmed XynC as an endoxylanase.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.9-19
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• 2016

Xylanases sourced from different bacteria have significantly different enzymatic properties. Therefore, studying xylanases from different bacteria is important to their applications in different fields. A potential xylanase degradation gene in Massilia was recently discovered through genomic sequencing. However, its xylanase activity remains unexplored. This paper is the first to report a xylanase (XynRBM26) belonging to the glycosyl hydrolase family (GH10) from the genus Massilia. The gene encodes a 383-residue polypeptide (XynRBM26) with the highest identity of 62% with the endoxylanase from uncultured bacterium BLR13. The XynRBM26 expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 is a monomer with a molecular mass of 45.0 kDa. According to enzymatic characteristic analysis, pH 5.5 is the most appropriate for XynRBM26, which could maintain more than 90% activity between pH 5.0 and 8.0. Moreover, XynRBM26 is stable at 37℃ and could maintain at least 96% activity after being placed at 37℃ for 1 h. This paper is the first to report that GH10 xylanase in an animal gastrointestinal tract (GIT) has salt tolerance, which could maintain 86% activity in 5 M NaCl. Under the optimum conditions, K_m, V_max, and k_cat of XynRBM26 to beechwood xylan are 9.49 mg/ml, 65.79 μmol/min/mg, and 47.34 /sec, respectively. Considering that XynRBM26 comes from an animal GIT, this xylanase has potential application in feedstuff. Moreover, XynRBM26 is applicable to high-salt food and seafood processing, as well as other high-salt environmental biotechnological fields, because of its high catalytic activity in high-concentration NaCl.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제24권7호
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• pp.943-953
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• 2014

The XylH gene (1,167-bp) encoding a novel hemicellulase (41,584 Da) was identified from the genome of Microbacterium trichothecenolyticum HY-17, a gastrointestinal bacterium of Gryllotalpa orientalis. The enzyme consisted of a single catalytic domain, which is 74% identical to that of an endo-${\beta}$-1,4-xylanase (GH10) from Isoptericola variabilis 225. Unlike other endo-${\beta}$-1,4-xylanases from invertebrate-symbiotic bacteria, rXylH was an alkali-tolerant multifunctional enzyme possessing endo-${\beta}$-1,4-xylanase activity together with ${\beta}$-1,3/${\beta}$-1,4-glucanase activity, which exhibited its highest xylanolytic activity at pH 9.0 and 60oC, and was relatively stable within a broad pH range of 5.0-10.0. The susceptibilities of different xylosebased polysaccharides to the XylH were assessed to be as follows: oat spelts xylan > beechwood xylan > birchwood xylan > wheat arabinoxylan. rXylH was also able to readily cleave p-nitrophenyl (pNP) cellobioside and pNP-xylopyranoside, but did not hydrolyze other pNP-sugar derivatives, xylobiose, or hexose-based materials. Enzymatic hydrolysis of birchwood xylan resulted in the product composition of xylobiose (71.2%) and xylotriose (28.8%) as end products.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.397-404
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• 2013

Paenibacillus xylanilyticus KJ-03 was isolated from soil samples obtained from a field with Amorphophallus konjac plants. A gene encoding xylanase was isolated from KJ-03 and cloned using a fosmid library. The xynA gene encodes xylanase; it consists of 1,035 bp and encodes 345 amino acids. The amino acid sequence deduced from the P. xylanilyticus KJ-03 xylanase showed 81% and 69% identities with those deduced from the P. polymyxa E681 and Paenibacillus sp. HPL-001 xylanases, respectively. The xynA gene comprises a single domain, consisting of a catalytic domain of the glycosyl hydrolase (GH) 10 family. The xynA gene was expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (trxB), and the recombinant xylanase was purified by Niaffinity chromatography. The purified xylanase showed optimum activity with birchwood xylan as a substrate at $40^{\circ}C$ and pH 7.4. Treatment with $Mg^{2+}$ and $Li^+$ showed a slight decrease in XynA activity; however, treatment with 5 mM $Cu^{2+}$ completely inhibited its activity. The results of the thin layer chromatography analysis indicated that the major hydrolysis product was xylobiose and small amounts of xylose and xylotriose. XynA showed increased activity with oat spelt xylan and birchwood xylan, but showed only slight activity with locust bean gum.