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WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 11, Pages 1551-1557Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-007-9400-0
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alpha-Amylase; deep sea sediment; Prydz Bay; psychrotrophic
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Seventeen psychrotrophic bacteria with cold-adaptive amylolytic, lipolytic or proteolytic activity were isolated from deep sea sediment of Prydz Bay, Antarctic. They were affiliated with gamma-Proteobacteria (12 strains) and gram-positive bacteria (5 strains) as determined by 16S rDNA sequencing. The amylase-producing strains belonged to genus Pseudomonas, Rhodococcus, and Nocardiopsis. Two Pseudomonas strains, 7193 and 7197, which showed highest amylolytic activity were chosen for further study. The optimal temperatures for their growth and amylase-producing were between 15 and 20 degrees C. Both of the purified amylases showed highest activity at 40 degrees C and pH 9.0, and retained 50% activity at 5 degrees C. The SDS-PAGE and zymogram activity staining showed that the molecular mass of strain 7193 and 7197 amylases were about 60 and 50 kDa respectively. The Pseudomonas sp. 7193 amylase hydrolyzed soluble starch into glucose, maltose, maltotriose, and maltotetraose, indicating that it had both activities of alpha-amylase and glucoamylase. The product hydrolyzed by Pseudomonas sp. 7197 amylase was meltotetraose.
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