Journal
MARINE DRUGS
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/md18020126
Keywords
chitosanase; pH-stability; Bacillus sp; Q1098; chitooligosaccharide; anti-oxidant activity
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [31900031]
- Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation [ZR2019BD027]
- Korea Research Fellowship Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science and ICT [2019H1D3A1A01102881]
- Key Lab of Marine Bioactive Substance and Modern Analytical Technique (SOA) [MBSMAT-2019-02]
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Chitooligosaccharide (COS) has been recognized to exhibit efficient anti-oxidant activity. Enzymatic hydrolysis using chitosanases can retain all the amino and hydroxyl groups of chitosan, which are necessary for its activity. In this study, a new chitosanase encoding gene, csnQ, was cloned from the marine Bacillus sp. Q1098 and expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant chitosanase, CsnQ, showed maximal activity at pH 5.31 and 60 degrees C. Determination of CsnQ pH-stability showed that CsnQ could retain more than 50% of its activity over a wide pH, from 3.60 to 9.80. CsnQ is an endo-type chitosanase, yielding chitodisaccharide as the main product. Additionally, in vitro and in vivo analyses indicated that chitodisaccharide possesses much more effective anti-oxidant activity than glucosamine and low molecular weight chitosan (LMW-CS) (similar to 5 kDa). Notably, to our knowledge, this is the first evidence that chitodisaccharide is the minimal COS fragment required for free radical scavenging.
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