• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.160-165
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• 1996

An alkalophilic bacterium producing alkaline protease(s) was isolated from soil. It was a Gram-positive, non-sporulating, immotile, irregular rod, strictly aerobic, and weak acid-forming bacterium. The morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics of the isolate resembled those of the Coryneform bacteria. However, there was not any species within this genera to which this microorganism can be closely matched. Therefore, it is provisionally identified as a Coryneform bacterium TU-19.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.337-341
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• 1998

다양한 초발 pH에서 호알칼리성 Coryneform bacteria TU-19 균주를 배양하면서 이 균주의 형태적, 배양적 특성을 조사하였다. 그 결과 $pH\;9.0{\sim}10.0$의 초발 pH 범위에서 공시균주는 정상적인 성장을 보였으나 pH 12.0에서는 성장이 완전히 저해되었다. 흥미롭게도 본 균주는 배지의 초발 pH에 따라 균체의 형태적 변화가 관찰되었다. 즉 pH 8.0, 대수증식기에서 이 균은 길게 둘둘말린 filament 형태를 이루고 있었으나 최적 pH(10.0)에서는 한 개 혹은 두 개의 짧게 뻗은 rod 형태를 보였다. 또한 이 균은 $pH\;9.0{\sim}11.0$ 범위에서 배양할 경우 배양액의 최종 pH를 자신의 생육에 적합하도록 8.5 근처로 조절할 수 있음이 확인되었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.639-644
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• 1998

Extracellular serine proteases were isolated from a soil bacterium, alkalophilic coryneform bacterium TU-19, which have been grown in a liquid medium optimized at 3$0^{\circ}C$ and pH 10.0. Three different sizes, 120 kDa (protease I), 80 kDa (protease II), and 45 kDa (protease III), of serine pro teases were purified using Sephadex G-150 and QAE-Sephadex chromatography (Kang et al. 1995. Agric. Chem Biotech. 38: 534-540). SDS-PAGE showed that the 120 kDa protease was degraded into the 80 kDa protease in 20 mM Tris-HCI (pH 8.0) buffer solution. This degradation was enhanced in the presence of 0.5 M NaCl and 5 mM EDTA, but was inhibited in the presence of 5 mM $CaCl_2$. These results indicated that the $Ca^{2＋}$ ion seems to stabilize the 120 kDa protease like other proteases derived from Bacillus species. The $NH_2$-terminal amino acid sequences of the 10 residues of both proteases were completely identical: Met-Asn-Thr-Gln-Asn-Ser-Phe-Leu-Ile-Lys. In contrast to this, the 80 kDa protease has 1.5 times higher specific activity than the 120 kDa protease does (Kang et al. 1995. Agric. Chern. Biotech. 38: 534-540). Therefore the C-terminal of the 120 kDa protease seems to be autolyzed to the 80 kDa protease but this autolysis did not decrease the protease activity. Optimum pH and temperature of both 80 kDa and 120 kDa proteases were pH 10.5 and $45^{\circ}C$, respectively, and pH and thermal stability were almost identical. Several divalent ions except the $Fe^{2＋}$ ion showed similar effects on activities of both proteases, which are similarly resistant to three different detergents.