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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 204, Issue 1, Pages 175-181Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2001.tb10882.x
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blue multicopper protein; oxidase; laccase; copper tolerance protein
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2,6-Dimethoxyphenol is a versatile substrate for Pyricularia oryzae laccase, PpoA from Marinomonas mediterranea, phenoxazinone synthase from Streptomyces antibioticus and mammalian ceruloplasmin. In addition, in cellular extracts of microorganisms expressing other blue multicopper proteins with no enzymatic activity previously described, such as Escherichia coli (copper resistance CueO), Pseudomonas syringae and Xanthomonas campestris (copper resistance CopA), Bacillus subtilis (sporulation protein CotA) and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (iron transporter Fet3p), laccase activity is detected under appropriate conditions. This oxidase activity can be spectrophotometrically followed by the oxidation of 2,6-dimethoxyphenol. Specific staining after SDS-PAGE is also possible for some of these proteins. This detection assay can facilitate the study of the multiple functions that such proteins seem to carry out in a variety of microorganisms. (C) 2001 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Elsevier Science BN. All rights reserved.
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