• 생명과학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.341-347
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• 1999

Insects use chitinolytic enzyme to digest chitin in the exoskelton during the molting process. We have isolated and sequenced a chitinase-encoding cDNA from the silkworm, Bombyx mandarina, compared its sequenced with genes encoding chitinolytic enzymes from other sources. The insert DNA in the clone is 2,675 nucleotides long with an open reading frame of 1,695 uncletides that encodes a protein of 565 amino acids with a molecuar weight of 63.4 kDa. The 3' -untranslated region of 889 nucleotides is AT-rich and contains two putative polyadenylation signals. The N-terminal sequence of the encoded protein contains numerous hydrophobic residues characteristic of a leader peptide. The amino acid alignment revealed that the endo-$\beta$-N-acetylglucosaminidase had 83% and 97% homology with M. sexta and B. mori, respectively. The deduced amino acid had two highly conserved region at the amino acid residues 97-111 and 139-148 that were related to the existing chitinase.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.187-196
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• 1995

In order to produce fuctional chitooligosaccharides, a strain excreting mainly endo-type chitinase suitable for chitooligosaccharides production was newly screened and identified as Aspergillus fumigatus JC-19. The chitinase excretion was repressed in nutrient rich medium but stimulated by colloidal chitin indicating that the chitinase is inducible type enzyme. Maximum secretion of the enzyme was observed at pH 7.0 and 37$\circ$C . The growth and chitinase production patterns of Aspergillus fumigatus JC-19 showed that the cell growth reached maximum after 4-5 days with final chitinase concentration of 0.46 unit per ml. Excreted chitinase was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation, colloidal chitin adsorption, anion exchange chromatography, and gel filtration, respectively, and measured M.W of 50 KDa. The enzyme reaction carried out both by crude and purified chitinase showed that the purified chitinase accumulated more chitooligosaccharides of 1-6 degree of polymerization than that of crude chitinase.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.168-174
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• 2003

C. militaris 균사를 콜로이달 키틴이 첨가된 액체 배지에서 배양한 후 황산암모늄 분별침전, 이온 교환 및 겔 여과 크로마토그래피를 이용하여 배양액 중의 chitianse를 분리 정제하였다. 이 효소의 최적 pH와 온도는 각각 5.5와 $35^{\circ}C$이었으며 겉보기 분자량은 48.5 kDa이었고, 그 Km 값은 0.57 mM이었다. 이 효소는 $Cu^{2+},\;Mn^{2+},\;Hg^{2+},\;Zn^{2+},\;CO_{3}^{2-},\;SO_4^{2-},\;CN^-$ 및 OCN^-$ 이온에 의하여 활성이 억제되었으나, $Mg^{2+}$ 및 $K^+$ 이온에 의하여 활성이 약간 증가되었다. 또한 효소 단백질의 아미노산 잔기와 선택적으로 반응하는 무수말레인산, 무수아세트산 및 N-bromo succinimide에 의하여 84.0% 활성이 억제되어 카르복실기를 가진 아미노산 잔기가 이 효소의 활성 부위에 중요한 역할을 함을 알았다. NAG6에 의한 기질 분해 특이성 실험을 통하여 이 효소는 endo-형태의 chitinase임을 알았다.

• 한국식물병리학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.277-283
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• 1994

An antimicrobial chitinase was purified from grapefruit extract and its properties were characterized. The chitinase was purified with a single step chromatography on regenerated chitin affinity gel column. The molecular weight of the purified chitinase was 29 kDa. The grapefruit extract contained the chitinase protein more than 50% of its total soluble proteins measured by coomassie stained protein bands. When the purified chitinase was incubated with polymers of N-acetylglucosamine (NAG), such as mycelia of Fusarium oxysproum and swollen chitin, they were degraded to oligosaccharides, and the oligosaccharides were then further hydrolyzed by the same enzyme to monomer and dimer of NAG. This result suggests that the chitinase contained both endo- and exo- chitinase activities. The chitinase was stable to heat and pH treatment; its activity was not diminished by the heat treatment upto 7$0^{\circ}C$ for 1 hr, and it showed a pH stability in the range of pH 4.0 to 12.0.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.560-567
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• 1998

We have found that Thermoactinomyces vulgaris KFB-Cl00 produces a chitinase. The optimum temperature and pH of the enzyme activity were $55^{\circ}C$ and 6.5. The enzyme was stable after heat treatment at $80^{\circ}C$ for 30 min and stable in acidic and basic conditions (PH 6.0~11.0). The thermostable endo-chitinase from Thermoactinomyces vulgaris KFB-C100 was cloned into the plasmid pBR322 by using E. coli DH5$\alpha$ as a host strain. The positive clone carrying a recombinant plasmid (PKCHI23) with a 4.1-kb fragment containing the chitinase gene was found. The recombinant plasmid was analyzed to determine the essential region for chitinase activity and obtained a 2.3-kb fragment, which was sub cloned into pTrc99A using the PstI and SalI sites to construct pTrc99A/pKCHI23-3. The resulting plasmid exerted high chitinase activity upon transformation of E. coli XL1-Blue cells. Chitinase was overproduced 14 times more in the clone cells than in the wild-type cells and the enzyme was purified to homogeneity. The purified enzyme showed the similar properties as the native chitinase from T. vulgaris in terms of molecular weight and substrate specificity. The catalytic action of the cloned enzyme was an endo type, producing chitobiose as a major reaction product.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제30권B호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2010

Three chitinase genes (chiA, chiB, and chiC) were cloned into E. coli by PCR amplification from Serratia marcescens KFRI314. The sizes of cloned chitinase genes were 1692 bp, 1500 bp, and 1443 bp which correspond to 563, 499, and 480 amino acids, respectively. Recombinant chitinases were overexpressed using pHCEIA expression vector and purified to homogenity. The molecular weights of chitinases were about 60kDa, 50 kDa, 52 kDa, respectively. Optimum pHs were around pH 5~6 and optimum temperatures were $45{\sim}50^{\circ}C$ while 90% of enzyme activities were stable up to $50^{\circ}C$. The specific activities of ChiA, ChiB, and ChiC were 233.1, 278.8, $111.3{\mu}mol\;(min)^{-1}\;mg^{-1}$ against colloidal chitin. From experiments using TLC and fluorescent substrate analogues, it was demonstrated that ChiA was endo-chitinase while ChiB and ChiC were chitobiosidase.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.255-260
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• 1991

Chitinase was partially purified from Allium fistulosum L (green onion_. Protein fraction precipitated from ammonium sulfate was passed through CM-Sepharose and Sephacryl HR-200. The specific activity of the chitinase was 6.4 units/mg and total recovery was 6.3%. The analysis of the products from the digestion of N-acetychitohexaose indicated that chitinase was endo in action, with oligerms from N-acetylchitobiose to chitotetraose. N-Acetylglucosaminidase from the same species hydrolyzed oligomers obtained from chitinase reaction to lower oligosaccharides. These data demonstrated that chitinolytic system exists in green onion.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제30권B호
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• pp.69-74
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• 2010

Chitinolytic activity was enhanced by coexpression of endo-chitinase gene (chiA) and chitobiosidase gene (chiB) from Serratia marcescens KFRI314 using constitutive expression vector, pHCEIA, in E. coli. Coexpression vector was constructed by inserting ribosome binding site (RBS) into junction between two chitinase genes. SDS-PAGE analyses showed that two chitinase were constitutively expressed while E. coli clones expressing two chitinases simultaneously increased halo size on colloidal chitin plate. Furthermore, the chitinolytic activities were much enhanced in coexpressed clones when degradation patterns of substrate analogues such as 4-MU-(NAG), $4-MU-(NAG)_2$,$4-MU-(NAG)_3$ were used. Consequently, the combined use of endochitinase and chitobiosidase greatly increased overall chitinolytic activities on recombinant E. coli clones.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.1188-1192
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• 2003

새우나 게 껍질로부터 chitin을 유일한 탄소원으로 하는 집적배양에 의하여 chitinase 활성이 우수한 균주를 2종 분리하였다. 분리균주는 형태학적, 그람염색, 16s rDNA 서열분석을 통하여 Arthrobacter nicotianae로 동정되어, 각각 Arthrobacter nicotianae CH4와 Arthrobacter nicotianae CH13으로 명명하였다. 두 종의 분리균주로부터의 chitinase는 모두 pH $3.0{\sim}9.0$에서 90% 이상의 효소활성을 유지하여 높은 pH안정성을 나타내었다. 온도의 영향은 $20{\sim}60^{\circ}C$ 구간에서 최적 효소 활성의 $70{\sim}90%$를 유지하여 열안정성도 뛰어났다. A. nicotianae CH4와 A. nicotianae CH13이 분비하는 chitinase 조효소를 0.1% colloidal chitin 기질에 반응시켜서 반응산물로 생산되는 chitin 올리고당을 HPLC를 사용하여 분석하였다. A. nicotianae CH4 조효소에 의한 효소반응산물로는 올리고머인 $(GlcNAc)_4$이, A. nicotianae CH13는 단량체인 $(GlcNAc)_1$이 전체 반응산물의 각각 98% 이상 생성되었다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.837-843
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• 2012

본 연구는 새롭게 개발된 느티만가닥버섯의 6개 품종에 대한 형태적, 생리적 특성을 조사하고 endo-, exo-cellular 효소 활성을 측정하기 위해서 수행되었다. 국내 야생종인 Hm3-10과 일본 재배종인 Hm1-1과의 단핵균사 교배를 통하여 343개의 교배 균주를 획득하여 재배를 실시하여 58개 균주를 1차 선발하고 2차로 6개 균주를 선발하였다. 6개 선발 균주를 대상으로 배양 일수 별로 재배를 실시한 결과 배양일수가 80일 이상에서는 재배일수가 19~20일로 단축되어 최적 배양일수를 80일로 결정하였다. 80일 배양일수에서 각 품종별 형태적 특성을 검증한 결과 Hm15-3, Hm15-4, Hm17-5의 3균주가 재배에 적합한 균주로 판명되었다. 각 균주의 endo-cellular 효소 활성도를 측정한 결과, ${\alpha}$-amylase의 효소 활성도가 73.9~102,2 unit/mg protein으로 가장 높았으며, chitinase 의 효소 활성도가 8.1~13.1 unit/mg protein으로 측정되었다. Exo-cellular효소 활성도를 측정한 결과, ${\alpha}$-amylase의 효소 활성도가 5,292~1,184 unit/mg protein으로 가장 높았으며, CMCase와 Xylanase의 효소 활성도가 각각 1,140~245 unit/mg protein, 94~575 unit/mg protein으로 측정되었다. 그러나 ${\beta}$-glucosidase와 chitinase의 활성도는 비교적 낮은 활성도를 나타내었다.