AGARASE FROM AN AGAR-DIGESTING BACTERIUM
- 1 April 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 77 (4) , 403-409
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.77.4.403-409.1959
Abstract
A versatile aerobic, gram-negative agarbacterium is described which grows on various oligo- and polysaccharides and adaptively forms enzymes which will cleave these carbohydrates. These enzymes are quite specific, as the enzyme from an agar-grown organism will split only agar and not a related polygalactogen, such as carrageenin. An agarase has been purified 10-fold from a culture filtrate of this organism and has been found to cleave agar, releasing oligosaccharides containing approximately 6 galactose units.Keywords
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