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JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 89, Issue 1, Pages 84-86Publisher
SOC BIOSCIENCE BIOENGINEERING JAPAN
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1723(00)88056-1
Keywords
alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase; sea squirt; glycosidase; purification; characterization
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Sea squirt alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase was purified to homogeneity. Its molecular weight was estimated to be approximately 160,000 by gel filtration and 40,000 by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) under reducing condition. The chromatographic and electrophoretic behaviors indicated that the enzyme was composed of four subunits. The optimum pH of the enzyme reaction was about 4.0 at 37 degrees C, while the enzyme was stable in the range of pH 5.0 to 6.0 during 4 h preincubation at 37 degrees C. Although the enzyme (0.1 unit) was stable at 0 degrees C for 30 min in the presence of 7.5 mM metal ions (Al3+, Ba2+, Ca2+, K+, Mn2+, Pb2+, Sr2+, and Zn2+), almost 40% of the enzyme activity was lost in the presence of Cu2+, Hg2+, monoiodoacetic acid, and EDTA. The enzyme hydrolyzed aryl N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosaminide as well as GalNAc alpha 1(-->4GalNAc alpha 1-->)(n) 4GalAc-p-aminobenzoic acid ethyl ester (ABEE) (n = 1-4), but GalNAc alpha 1-->4GalNAc-ABEE only scarcely. Furthermore, an allergenic pentasaccharitol ABEE derivative, GalNAc alpha 1-->2Fuc alpha 1-->3(GalNAc beta 1-->4) GlcNAc beta 1-->2(3-acetoamido-3-deoxy)L-threose-ABEE, the minimum structural unit for the sea squirt allergenicity was hydrolyzed to 95 mol% for 72 h incubation with the enzyme. The enzyme could be utilized as a powerful tool for the structural analyses of the carbohydrate epitopes of the sea squirt allergen molecules.
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