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LIMNOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 125-130Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s10201-011-0364-2
Keywords
Peptidase; Phytoplankton; Peptidase zymograph; Electrophoresis; Lake Shinryu
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- Ministry of Education, Sports, Science, and Culture of Japan [19510012]
- Foundation of River and Watershed Environment Management, Japan [20-1215-027, 22-1211-032]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19510012] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Serial monthly peptidase activities were assayed in the surface water of Lake Shinryu, located in the Chugoku district of Japan, using artificial fluorescent peptidase substrates. The results indicated that the lake water had higher aminopeptidase activities than endopeptidase activities except in November and December, whereas lake water filtrated using membranes with a pore size of 0.2 mu m showed higher endopeptidase activities than aminopeptidase activities from June to December, with peaks in June and November. The serial aminopeptidase activity profile was relatively similar to that of the chlorophyll-a concentration. The size distribution of aminopeptidase activities indicated that half of the total activity was retained in the fraction between 5 and 100 mu m. These results suggest that phytoplankton participate in the digestion of peptides with aminopeptidase activities. Electrophoretic analysis detected the presence of three peptidase bands (1, 2, and 3) in the lake water that passed through the 0.2-mu m membranes. Samples from June, September, and November dominantly contained these active bands in different electrophoretic profiles.
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