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BIOPOLYMERS
Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages 77-88Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bip.10017
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alginate; mannuronan C-5 epimerase; NMR; enzyme kinetics
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The enzymes mannuronan C-5 epimerases catalyze conversion of beta-D-mannuronic acid to a-L-guluronic acid in alginates at the polymer level and thereby introduce sequences that have functional properties relevant to gelation. The enzymatic conversion by recombinant mannuronan C-5 epimerases AlgE4 and AlgE2 on alginate type substrates with different degree of polymerization and initial low fraction Of alpha-L-guluronic acid was investigated. Essentially no enzymatic activity was found for fractionated mannuronan oligomer substrates with an average degree of polymerization, DPn, less than or equal 6, whereas increasing the DPn yielded increased epimerization activity. This indicates that these enzymes have an active site consisting of binding domains for consecutive residues that requires interaction with 7 or more consecutive residues to show enzymatic activity. The experimentally determined kinetics of the reaction, and the residue sequence arrangement introduced by the epimerization, were modeled using Monte Carlo simulation accounting for the various competing intrachain substrates and assuming either a processive mode of action or preferred attack. The comparison between experimental data and simulation results suggests that epimerization by AlgE4 is best described by a processive mode of action, whereas the mode of action of AlgE2 appears to be more difficult to determine. (C) 2002 John Wiley Sons, Inc.
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