Purification and characterization of antifungal chitinase from Bacillus safensis MBCU6 and its application for production of chito-oligosaccharides

Biologia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Urja Pandya ◽  
Meenu Saraf

AbstractThe chitinase producing bacterial strain was isolated from the vermicompost amended site of Mehsana district of Gujarat, India, and identified as Bacillus safensis MBCU6 using 16S rDNA sequencing. The chitinase was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation followed by diethylaminoethanol sepharose CL-6B column chromatography. The purified enzyme could be demonstrated as a single band on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacryalamide gel electrophoresis analysis as well as clear zone on zymogram, with estimated molecular mass of 58 kDa. The optimum pH and temperature of chitinase were pH 7.0 and 60◦C, respectively. The purified chitinase exhibited high degree of antifungal activity particularly against pathogenic Macrophomina phaseolina (60%) and Rhizoctonia solani (73%) by dissolving their cell wall components. The purified enzyme could hydrolyze colloidal chitin to its oligomers. It infers that the chitinase produced by Bacillus safensis may play a significant role in the activity as a biopesticide and bioactive material production.

1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo T. Cánepa ◽  
Elena B.C. Llambías

Pig liver ferrochelatase was purified 465-fold with about 30% yield, to apparent homogeneity, by a procedure involving solubilization from mitochondria, ammonium sulfate fractionation, and Sephacryl S-300 chromatography. The fraction of each purification step had cobaltochelatase as well as ferrochelatase activity. A purified protein of molecular weight 40 000 was found by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. A molecular weight of approximately 240 000 was obtained by Sephacryl S-300 chromatography. Both activities of the purified fraction increased linearly with time until 2 h. but nonlinear plots were obtained with increasing concentrations of protein. Their optimum pH values were similar. Km values were, for ferrochelatase activity, 23.3 μM for the metal and 30.3 μM for mesoporphyrin. and for cobaltochelatase activity. 27 and 45.5 μM, respectively. Fe2+ and Co2+ each protected against inactivation by heat. Pb2+, Zn2+, Cu2+, or Hg2+ inhibited both activities, while Mn2+ slightly activated; Mg2+ had no effect, at the concentrations tested. There appeared to be an involvement of sulfhydryl groups in metal insertion. Lipids, in correlation with their degree of unsaturation, activated both purified activities; phospholipids also had activation effects. We conclude that a single protein catalyzes the insertion of Fe2+ or Co2+ into mesoporphyrin.


1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyoshi Takeuchi

Exo-β-1,3-glucanase from the sea urchin embryos was purified 114-fold from the initial hatching supernatant by the following procedures: (a) gel filtration on Sephadex G-100; (b) hydrophobic chromatography on 4-phenylbutylamine-Sepharose (PBA-Sepharose); (c) two ion-exchange chromatographic steps on DEAE-cellulose; (d) gel filtration on Ultrogel AcA 34; (e) gel filtration on Sephadex G-100. The purified enzyme contained 2.2% carbohydrate and gave a single protein band corresponding to a molecular weight of 136 000 following electrophoresis on sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) – urea – polyacrylamide gel. Gel filtration on Ultrogel AcA 34 with a nondenaturing solvent gave a molecular weight of 130 000 ± 6000. The enzyme displayed an optimum pH at 5.0–5.5 and hydrolysed laminarin and PS(curdlan)-beads at the nonreducing ends, releasing glucose. Although activity of the purified enzyme was not affected by SDS, urea, some divalent ions, and 2-mercaptoethanol, both dithiothreitol and Hg2+ were markedly inhibitory.


2006 ◽  
Vol 52 (7) ◽  
pp. 651-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Morales de la Vega ◽  
J Eleazar Barboza-Corona ◽  
Maria G Aguilar-Uscanga ◽  
Mario Ramírez-Lepe

A chitinolytic enzyme from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai has been purified and its molecular mass was estimated ca. 66 kDa by sodium dodecyl sulfate – polyacryamide gel electrophoresis (SDS–PAGE). The enzyme was able to hydrolyze chitin to chitobiosides but not carboxymethylcellulose, cellulose, pullulan, and laminarin. Optimal pH and temperature were detected at 6 and 50 °C, respectively. Stability, in the absence of substrate, was observed at temperatures less than 60 °C and pH between 5 and 8. Enzyme activity was significantly inhibited by K+ and EDTA and completely inhibited by Hg2+. Purified chitinase showed lytic activity against cell walls from six phytopathogenic fungi and inhibited the mycelial growth of both Fusarium sp. and Sclerotium rolfsii. The biocontrol efficacy of the enzyme was tested in the protection of bean seeds infested with six phytopathogenic fungi.Key words: chitinase, Bacillus thuringiensis, purification, phytopathogenic fungi.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh A. Mohamed ◽  
Mohamed F. Elshal ◽  
Taha A. Kumosani ◽  
Alia M. Aldahlawi

L-asparaginase from bacteria has been used in treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The aim of this study was to purify and characterize L-asparaginase fromPhaseolus vulgarisseeds instead of microbial sources. L-asparaginase was purified to apparent homogeneity. The enzyme has molecular mass of 79 kDa. The purified asparaginase had very low activity toward a number of asparagine and glutamine analogues. L-asparaginase was free from glutaminase activity. Kinetic parameters, Km andVmax of purified enzyme, were found to be 6.72 mM and 0.16 μM, respectively. The enzyme had optimum pH at 8.0. The enzyme showed high stability at alkaline pH (pH 7.5–9.0) when incubated for up to 24 h. L-asparaginase had the same temperature optimum and thermal stability at 37°C. K+was able to greatly enhance the activity of asparaginase by 150% compared with other metals tested. In conclusion, L-asparaginase showed no glutaminase activity and good stability over a wide range of physiological conditions, and thus it could be used as a potential candidate for treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.


1992 ◽  
Vol 288 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Ishii-Karakasa ◽  
H Iwase ◽  
K Hotta ◽  
Y Tanaka ◽  
S Omura

For the purification of a new type of endo-alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase from the culture medium of Streptomyces sp. OH-11242 (endo-GalNAc-ase-S) [Iwase, Ishii, Ishihara, Tanaka, Omura & Hotta (1988) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 151, 422-428], a method for assaying enzyme activity was established. Using purified pig gastric mucus glycoprotein (PGM) as the substrate, oligosaccharides liberated from PGM were pyridylaminated, and the reducing terminal sugars of oligosaccharides larger than Gal beta 1-3GalNAc were analysed by h.p.1.c. The crude enzyme of endo-GalNAc-ase-S was prepared as an 80% (w/v) ammonium sulphate precipitate from the concentrated culture medium. The enzyme was partially purified by gel chromatofocusing and subsequent DEAE-Toyopearl chromatography. Endo-enzyme activity eluted around pI 4.8 on a gel chromatofocusing column and eluted with 0.19-0.25 M-NaCl on a DEAE-Toyopearl column. In the enzyme fraction obtained, no exo-glycosidases or proteases could be detected. The molecular mass of the enzyme was estimated as 105 kDa by gel filtration, and the optimum pH was 5.5. Endo-GalNAc-ase-S hydrolysed the O-glycosidic linkage between GalNAc and Ser (Thr) in 3H-labelled and unlabelled asialofetuin, liberating both the disaccharide (Gal beta 1-3GalNAc) and the tetrasaccharide [Gal beta 1-3 (Gal beta 1-4GlcNAc beta 1-6)GalNAc]. When endo-alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase from Alcaligenes sp. (endo-GalNac-ase-A) was incubated with 3H-labelled and unlabelled asialofetuin, only the disaccharide (Gal beta 1-3GalNAc) was liberated.


1999 ◽  
Vol 181 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisayo Ono ◽  
Kazuhisa Sawada ◽  
Nonpanga Khunajakr ◽  
Tao Tao ◽  
Mihoko Yamamoto ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT 1,4,5,6-Tetrahydro-2-methyl-4-pyrimidinecarboxylic acid (ectoine) is an excellent osmoprotectant. The biosynthetic pathway of ectoine from aspartic β-semialdehyde (ASA), in Halomonas elongata, was elucidated by purification and characterization of each enzyme involved. 2,4-Diaminobutyrate (DABA) aminotransferase catalyzed reversively the first step of the pathway, conversion of ASA to DABA by transamination with l-glutamate. This enzyme required pyridoxal 5′-phosphate and potassium ions for its activity and stability. The gel filtration estimated an apparent molecular mass of 260 kDa, whereas molecular mass measured by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) was 44 kDa. This enzyme exhibited an optimum pH of 8.6 and an optimum temperature of 25°C and had Km s of 9.1 mM forl-glutamate and 4.5 mM for dl-ASA. DABA acetyltransferase catalyzed acetylation of DABA to γ-N-acetyl-α,γ-diaminobutyric acid (ADABA) with acetyl coenzyme A and exhibited an optimum pH of 8.2 and an optimum temperature of 20°C in the presence of 0.4 M NaCl. The molecular mass was 45 kDa by gel filtration. Ectoine synthase catalyzed circularization of ADABA to ectoine and exhibited an optimum pH of 8.5 to 9.0 and an optimum temperature of 15°C in the presence of 0.5 M NaCl. This enzyme had an apparent molecular mass of 19 kDa by SDS-PAGE and a Km of 8.4 mM in the presence of 0.77 M NaCl. DABA acetyltransferase and ectoine synthase were stabilized in the presence of NaCl (>2 M) and DABA (100 mM) at temperatures below 30°C.


2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 844-853
Author(s):  
Baghdad Science Journal

Endoglucanase produced from Aspergillus flavus was purified by several steps including precipitation with 25 % ammonium sulphate followed by Ion –exchange chromatography, the obtained specific activity was 377.35 U/ mg protein, with a yield of 51.32 % .This step was followed by gel filtration chromatography (Sepharose -6B), when a value of specific activity was 400 U/ mg protein, with a yield of 48 %. Certain properties of this purified enzyme were investigated, the optimum pH of activity was 7 and the pH of its stability was 4.5, while the temperature stability was 40 °C for 60 min. The enzyme retained 100% of its original activity after incubation at 40 °C for 60 min; the optimum temperature for enzyme activity was 40 °C.


Author(s):  
Jaiganesh R ◽  
Jaganathan Mk

Objective: The objective of this work was to isolation, purification and characterization of solvent tolerant lipase from Bacillus sp. The objective of this work was to isolation, purification and characterization of solvent tolerant lipase from Bacillus sp. from kitchen grease for a variety of applications including organic synthetic reactions and preparation of enantiomerically pure pharmaceuticals.Methods: Lipase producing isolates were screened from kitchen grease on a selective medium rhodamine B olive oil agar, and tributyrin agar was used to screen the lipase and esterase producing an organism, respectively. The isolate identified using 16S rDNA sequencing method and enzyme activity was quantitatively assayed. Lipase production was characterized in different conditions.Results: The isolate showed highest lipase activity was which later was identified as Bacillus sp. using 16S rDNA sequencing method. The lipase was purified using ammonium sulfate precipitation. The isolate showed excellent tolerance to methanol, ethanol, acetonitrile, and moderate tolerance to butanol. The increased biomass concentration, maximum production, and activity were achieved at 37°C in 24 h incubation, then gradual reduction in production was observed. The maximum activity of lipase enzyme was obtained at pH between 6 and 9.Conclusion: The isolate produce solvent tolerance lipase enzyme and it can be a promising candidate of solvent tolerance lipase enzyme for variety of industrial applications.


1998 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 789-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliano Degrassi ◽  
Benedict C. Okeke ◽  
Carlo V. Bruschi ◽  
Vittorio Venturi

ABSTRACT Bacillus pumilus PS213 was found to be able to release acetate from acetylated xylan. The enzyme catalyzing this reaction has been purified to homogeneity and characterized. The enzyme was secreted, and its production was induced by corncob powder and xylan. Its molecular mass, as determined by gel filtration, is 190 kDa, while sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed a single band of 40 kDa. The isoelectric point was found to be 4.8, and the enzyme activity was optimal at 55°C and pH 8.0. The activity was inhibited by most of the metal ions, while no enhancement was observed. The Michaelis constant (Km ) andV max for α-naphthyl acetate were 1.54 mM and 360 μmol min−1 mg of protein−1, respectively.


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