Purification and Characterization of Bifunctional Alginate Lyase from Alteromonas sp. Strain No. 272 and Its Action on Saturated Oligomeric Substrates
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
- Vol. 65 (1) , 133-142
- https://doi.org/10.1271/bbb.65.133
Abstract
A marine bacterium (strain No. 272) isolated from sea mud in Omura Bay produced an alginate lyase and was classified as an Alteromonas species. The enzyme was purified from the culture medium of the bacterium by DEAE-Cellulofine, Sephadex G-100 gel chromatography to an electrophoretically homogeneous state in the presence and absence of SDS. The molecular mass of the enzyme was 23 and 33.9 kDa on Sephadex G-100 column chromatography and SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, respectively, with an isoelectric point of 3.8. The predominant secondary structure of the enzyme was found to be most likely beta-structure by circular dichroism. The enzyme was most active at pH 7.5-8.0 and stable around pH 5-11. The enzyme was more labile in Tris-HCI buffer (pH 7.0) to heat treatment, than in phosphate buffer (pH 7.0). No of metal ions significantly affected the enzyme activity. The enzyme acted on sodium alginate in an endo-type manner and on two components of alginate, poly-alpha1,4-L-guluronate and poly-beta1,4-D-mannuronate, as judged by routine ultraviolet assay (235 nm) and circular dichroic spectral changes of the substrates. However, the coexisting poly-alpha1,4-L-guluronate and poly-beta1,4-D-mannuronate apparently interacted with the enzyme in a competitive manner. Although the enzyme depolymerized alginate in an endo-type, it did not act on trimeric guluronate and mannuronate, but on the tetramers or more. The kinetic analyses showed that kcat/Km for each oligomer was larger for the guluronate oligomers than for the mannuronate ones, and that the subsite structure of the enzyme most likely consisted of six binding sites from the intrinsic reaction rate constant (kint) and intrinsic substrate binding constant (Kint).Keywords
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