• The Korean Journal of Mycology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.168-174
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• 2003

In this study, Cordyceps militaris was grown in a liquid medium containing colloidal chitin. A chitinase was purified from the supernatant or cultured medium by ammonium sulfate fractionation, DEAE-Sephadex A-25 and Sephadex G-50 column chromatography. Optimum temperature and pH of this enzyme were $35^{\circ}C$ and 5.5, respectively. The molecular weight of the chitinase was estimated to be 48.5 kDa by SDS-PAGE and its Km value was 0.57 mM. The activity of this enzyme was inhibited by $Cu^{2+},\;Mn^{2+},\;Hg^{2+},\;Zn^{2+},\;CO_{3}^{2-},\;SO_4^{2-},\;CN^-,\;ion,\;and\;OCN^-$ maleic anhydride, acetic anhydride or N-bromo succinimide, especially strongly inhibited by sodium cyanate for 84.0 percentage. But its activity wag slightly stimulated by $Mg^{2+}\;and\;K^+$ ion, respectively. The products formed during hydrolysis of the hexa-N-acetylchitohexaose with this enzyme were N,N'-diacetylchitobiose and N,N',N'-triacetylchitotriose. These results imply that this purified enzyme may be an endo-chitinase.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.158-160
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• 1993

2-Oxazolidinones and 1,3-oxazine-2-ones, key moieties of new antiulcer agents, were prepared successfully by treating corresponding hydroxyamide with N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) and silveracetate in acetonitrile. From the fact that the methods for the preparation of hydoxy amides are versatile and such amides could be converted to the corresponding 2-oxazolid-iones and 1,3-oxazine-2-one under our reaction condition, we think that our method is very practical one for the preparation of such compounds. In addition, the above synthetic example affords a good evidence of the synthetic applicability of our improved Hofmann rearrangement.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.811-814
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• 1993

Properties of a protease purified from Sarcodon asparatus(Berk.) S. Ito have been investigated. The enzyme displays as a glycosylated serine protease. The sequence for the 21 amino acids of the N-terminal side in the enzyme was determined by automated sequence analysis. The sequence was V-T-T-K-Q-T-N-A-P-W-G-L-G-N-I-S-T-T-N-K-L-.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.301-306
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• 1991

Extracellular fructosyl transferase from Aureobasidium pullulans C-23 was characterized. The molecular weight of the isolated enzyme was determined to be approximately 170,000 by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme has the pI value of about 3.7. The enzyme was almost completely inhibited by 5mM $Hg^{2+}$ , but was not significantly affected by other cations tested. The enzyme was inactivated by treatment of tryptophan-specific reagent N-bromo- succinimide and tyrosine-specific reagent iodine. The substrate sucrose showed protective effect on the inactivation of the enzyme by the both reagents. These results suggest that tryptophan and tyrosine residues are probably located at or near active site of the enzyme.