• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.103-106
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• 2000

Bacillus cereus KCTC 3674 excretes at least two kinds of extracellular proteases into the growth medium. Two major bands of the protease activity with molecular weights of approximately 100 and 38 kDa were obtained after gelatin-SDS-PAGE. The protease with a molecular weight of 38kDa was identified as an extracellular neutral (metallo-) protease. The neutral protease was quite thermostabile but labile to alkaline pH. On the contrary, the 100-kDa protease was thermolabile but stable to alkaline pH. The production of 38-kDa neutral protease was strongly affected by temperature, oxygen, carbonylcyanied m-chlorophenylhydrazone(CCCP) that was defined as a protonophofre, and cerulenin which inhibited lipid synthesis and caused changes in the membrane composition. On the other hand, the production of the 100-kDa protease was strongly affected by only temperature and cerulenin. Quinacrine (0.2 mM), which inhibits the penicillinase-releasing proteases of Bacillus licheniformis, had no effect, whatsoever, on the production of extracellular proteases in B.cereus KCTC 3674.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.147-151
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• 2000

A gene, nprM, from Bacillus megaterium ATCC 14945 was obtained by PCR using primers synthesized based on two nprM sequences from two different strains, and cloned into Escherichia coli. The gene nprM encoded an extracellular neutral protease, and the molecular mass of the expressed enzyme was estimated to be approximately 36kDa on a denaturating gel. The enzyme was activated by $Ca^{2+}$, and the optimum concentration of $Ca^{2+}$ was 5 mM. The enzyme was inhibited by EDTA but not by PMSF. The optimal pH and temperature of the cloned enzyme were $50^{\circ}C and pH 7.5-8.0, respectively, and were similar to those of the enzyme from the gene gonor cell. The cloned NprM caused internal cleavage of the native endoglucanase of B. subtilis BSE616 as a model foregin protein, and resulted in a small truncated but still active endoglucanase.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.407-411
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• 1989

Oxytetracycline 생산균주인 Streptomyces rimosus를 maltose 2%, NH$_4$Cl 0.5%, yeast extract 0.4 %, MGSO$_4$.7$H_2O$ 0.2% 조성의 배지를 배양초기 PH 6.5로 하여 3$0^{\circ}C$, 72시간 진탕배양하여 얻은, 세포외 protease를 유안분획, Sephadex A-50 이온교환, Sephadex G-100 gel 여과를 행하여 정제하였다. 효소의 최적온도는 5$0^{\circ}C$이며, 최적 pH는 8.0이었으며, Co$^{2+}$ 이온에 의해 활성화되며 Hg$^{2+}$, Fe$^{2+}$ 및 EDTA에 의해 저해를 받으며 casein 분자량을 23,600으로 추정하여 구한 Km값은 2.7$\times$$10^{-4}$M이었다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제29권10호
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• pp.1126-1135
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• 2019

세포 외로 단백질분해효소를 생산하는 효모 균주 CO-1을 대나무 부산물에서 분리하였다. CO-1은 원형 또는 타원형($3.1-4.0{\times}3.8-4.4{\mu}m$)으로, 생장을 위한 최적 온도는 $30^{\circ}C$, 초기 pH는 4.0이었다. 그리고 최대 15.0% (w/v)의 NaCl과 9.0%(v/v)의 ethanol 농도에서 생장하였다. 형태적, 생리 생화학적 특성 및 18S rRNA 유전자 염기서열을 통한 계통분석을 이용하여 동정을 실시한 결과 Pichia anomala로 판명되었다. P. anomala CO-1 단백질분해효소를 부분 정제한 결과 수율은 7.2％였으며, 정제 전에 비해 약 14.6배 정제되었다. Zymogram으로 측정한 효소의 분자량은 약 30 kDa으로 확인되었다. 본 균주는 배지 중에 탄소원과 질소원, 무기염으로 1.0%(w/v) CMC와 1.0%(w/v) yeast extract, 0.3%(w/v) $MnSO_4$를 사용하였을 경우 가장 높은 단백질분해효소 활성을 나타내었다. P. anomala CO-1이 생산하는 단백질분해효소의 최적 활성 pH와 온도는 각각 7.0과 $30^{\circ}C$였다. 또한 본 효소는 pH 4.0-10.0에서 75%의 안정성을 나타내었으며, $65^{\circ}C$에서 1시간 가열하여도 60％ 전후의 활성을 유지하였다. 균주의 효소 생산은 생육과 비례하였으며 대수증식기 후반에 최대의 효소 생산을 나타내었다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.78-82
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• 2013

이전의 연구에서 토양으로부터 많은 양의 세포외 단백질분해 효소를 생산하는 신종 중온세균 Chryseobacterium sp. JK1를 분리하였다. 이 균주가 생산하는 단백질 분해효소의 특성조사 결과 최적반응온도와 pH는 각각 $40^{\circ}C$와 7.0이였으며, 좁은 최적온도 구간과 비교적 넓은 pH 구간인 pH 6.0-9.0에서 높은 활성을 보여주었다. 그리고 단백질 분해효소는 EDTA 또는 EGTA, PMSF와 금속이온 $Ag^+$ 또는 $Cu^{2+}$의 첨가에 의해 강하게 저해 되었으며, $Al^{3+}$의 첨가에 의해 약하게 저해되었다. Pepstatin과 금 속이온 $K^+$, $Ca^{2+}$, $Na^+$, $Fe^{2+}$ 또는 $Mg^{2+}$의 첨가는 저해에 큰 영향을 주지 않았다. 이와 반대로 단백질분해효소는 이가 금속이온인 $Mn^{2+}$ (5 mM)의 첨가에 의해 효소활성이 향상되었다. 농축된 배양 상등액의 활성염색 분석으로 67과 145 kDa 크기의 주요 밴드 두 개가 관찰되었다. 이러한 결과들로 Chryseobacterium sp. JK1 균주가 식품산업에 응용 가능한 세포외 중성의 serine 단백질 분해효소를 생산한다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.355-361
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• 1988

성장속도가 빠르고포지형성이 우수한 방사균 일주를 토양에서 분리한 뒤 분리균의 특성을 조사한 결과 세포외 단백질 분해 효소가 중성과 알카리성의 두 종류가 생성되었으며 $\beta$-lactamase도 생성함을 알았다. 이 균주를 acriflarin 또는 NTG로서 처리하여 얻은 변이주는 포자의 형성, $\beta$-lactamase의 생성 및 protease의 생합성 능력이 소실 또는 크게 저하되었다. 일단계의 변이주 취득에서 동시에 형질의 변화가 다양하게 나타난 원인을 규명한 결과 호알카리성 protease의 생합성이 크게 저하되었음을 알았다. 따라서 방선균에서 포자형성과 호알카리성 protease의 활성이 일정한 연관성이 있을 것으로 판단되었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.1769-1774
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• 2001

Bacillus licheniformis strains L-25 and PWD-1 are two thermophilic feather-degrading bacteria. Despite isolated from different environmental conditions, they were both capable of breaking down chicken feathers and growing in a medium in which feather was the only source of carbon and nitrogen. A 1.46-kb keratinase gene (ker B) was isolated from strain L-25 by a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using L-25 genomic DNA as templates. Sequencing results reveal that ker B shares great sequence identity with a previously published keratinase gene of B. licheniformis PWD-1 (ker A). Only two amino acids differences were found in the deduced amino acid sequence between the keratinases from L-25 and PWD-1. However several nucleotide changes were found upstream of the putative promoter region. Protease inhibition studies indicated that neutral protease activity accounted for approximate 25 to 30% of total extracellular proteolytic activity produced by strain L-25 in the feather medium. In contrast, no measurable neutral protease activity was produced by strain PWD-1 in the feather medium. When glucose (1%), a common catabolic repressor, was added into the feather medium, L-25 was still able to grow and produce keratinase. Strain PWD-1 produced no neutral protease activity and its growth was severely inhibited in the feather medium containing glucose. L-25 produced an enhanced level of keratinase in the feather medium in comparison with PWD-1.

• 셀메드
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.6.1-6.12
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• 2014

Anthrax is the deadly disease for human being caused by Bacillus anthracis. Instantaneous research work on the mode of infection of the organism revealed that different proteases are involved in different steps of pathogenesis. Present study reports the in silico characterization and the detection of pathogenic proteases involved in anthrax infection through protein-protein interaction. A total of 13 acid, 9 neutral, and 1 alkaline protease of Bacillus anthracis were selected for analysing the physicochemical parameter, the protein superfamily and family search, multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree construction, protein-protein interactions and motif finding. Among the 13 acid proteases, 10 were found as extracellular enzymes that interact with immune inhibitor A (InhA) and help the organism to cross the blood brain barrier during the process of infection. Multiple sequence alignment of above acid proteases revealed the position 368, 489, and 498-contained 100% conserved amino acids which could be used to deactivate the protease. Among the groups analyzed, only acid protease were found to interact with InhA, which indicated that metalloproteases of acid protease group have the capability to develop pathogenesis during B. anthracis infection. Deactivation of conserved amino acid position of germination protease can stop the sporulation and germination of B anthracis cell. The detailed interaction study of neutral and alkaline proteases could also be helpful to design the interaction network for the better understanding of anthrax disease.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.83-93
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• 2011

Biochemical and enzymatic characterization for extracellular protease isolated from Cordyceps militaris cultivated on rice bran medium was investigated. C militaris produced proteolytic enzymes from 10 days after inoculation, maximum enzyme production was found at 25 days. The optimum temperature and pH of proteases production was at $25^{\circ}C$ and pH 7.0, respectively. The protease activity was observed in the four peaks (Pro-I, Pro-II, Pro-III, and Pro-IV) separated through Sephadex G-100 column chromatography. The separated protease was optimally active at $25^{\circ}C$. Optimum pH of the protease was between 7 and 8. Enzyme was also stable over at $30-80^{\circ}C$. The enzyme was highly stable in a pH range of 4-9. Protease activity was found to be slightly decreased by the addition of $Mg^{2+}$, $Mn^{2+}$, $Zn^{2+}$, $Fe^{2+}$ and $Cu^{2+}$, whereas inhibited by the addition of $Ca^{2+}$ and $Co^{2+}$ Protease activity was inhibited by protease inhibitor PMSF. On the other hand, the partially purified protease was investigated on proteolytic protease activity by zymogram gel electrophoresis using three substances (casein, gelatin and fibrin). Four active bands (F-I, FII, F-III, and F-IV) of fibrin degradation were revealed on fibrin zymogram gels. Both of F-II and FIII showed caseinolytic, fibrinolytic and gelatinolytic activities in three gels. Thermostability, pH stability, and pH-thermostability of the enzyme determined the residual fibrinolytic activity also displayed on fibrin zymogram gel. The only one enzyme (F-II) displayed over a broad range of temperature at $30-90^{\circ}C$. The FII displayed fibrinolytic activity in the pH range 3-5, but was inactivated in the range of pH 6-11. The F-I and F-III showed enzyme activity in the pH range of 6-11. In the pH-thermostability, the F-II only kept fibrinolytic activity after heating at $100^{\circ}C$ for 10, 20 and 30 min at pH 3 and pH 7, respectively. On the other hand, the F-II was retained activity until heating for 10 min under pH 11 condition. By using fibrin zymogram gel electrophoresis, extracellular fibrinolytic enzyme F-II from C. militaris showed unusual thermostable under acid and neutral conditions.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.363-369
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• 1989

산업적으로 속성젓갈을 대량 생산하기 위하여, 우선 시중 젓갈에서 단백질분해력이 강한 균주 4 종을 분리하여 속성 분해정도와 분해 생성물의 풍미를 비교 검토한 결과 B. subtilis p-4 및 B. licheniformis p-5 균이 가장 양호하였으며, 이들 균주와 그 pretense의 특성은 다음과 같다. pH 7.0, $40^{\circ}C$ 식염$1\%$ 농도에서 균체 및 조효소 활성이 가장 양호하였으며, 이때의 비증식속도는 p-4 균 및 p-5 균이 각각 0.48/hr, 0.49/hr이었고, 최대 효소활성 농도는 p-4 는 30시간 후 335n mole-Tyr/min.ml, p-5는 28시간 후 300n mo1e-Tyr/min.ml이였다. 그리고 sephadex G-100 겔 여과에 의한 효소 정제도는 조효소에 비해 비활성이 p-4 및 p-5 균 protease의 경우 각각 25.4배, 8.6배씩 증가하였으며, pH 7.0, $50^{\circ}C$에서 활성이 가장 높았다. 또한 겔여과에 의한 분자량은 p-4가 18,000, p-5 protease가 30,000이었고, 저해제의 효과에서는 두 Protease 모두 $Ni^{2+},\;Cu^{2+}$ 이온과 EDTA, o-phenanthroline에 의해 강하게 활성이 소실되는 것으로 보아 metal chelator sensitive neutral protease에 속하는 것으로 추정되었다.