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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS
Volume 1570, Issue 3, Pages 174-180Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4165(02)00194-0
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cellulase; glycosyl hydrolase; family 8; cloning; crystallization; lichenase; Bacillus
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A high-isoelectric-point (pI), alkaline endo-1,4-beta-glucanase (Egl-257) of Bacillus circulans KSM-N257 was purified to homogeneity and crystallized. The purified enzyme hydrolyzed carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) with optima of pH 8.5 and 55 degreesC. The molecular mass was 43 kDa, and the pI was pH 9.3. The structural gene contained a single open reading frame of 1221 bp, corresponding to 407 amino acids (aa), including a 30-aa signal peptide (377 aa and 41,680 Da for the mature enzyme). Egl-257 hydrolyzed lichenan and showed 76.3% aa identity to a lichenase from B. circulans WL-12 belonging to glycosyl hydrolase family 8 but did not hydrolyze laminarin, curdran, and xylan at all. This indicates that Egl-257 is a true endo-1,4-beta-glucanase. However, this enzyme was not active on p-nitrophenyt beta-D-cellotrioside and p-nitrophenyl beta-D-cellotetraoside. It was crystallized by the hanging-drop vapor-diffusion method with phosphate plus CdCl2 as precipitant, Pyramid-like crystals were formed, and they diffracted X-rays beyond 2.2 Angstrom resolution. It belongs to the space group P2(1)2(1)2(1) with unit cell parameters of a = 62.5 Angstrom, b = 71.7 Angstrom, and c = 88.6 Angstrom. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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