• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.303-311
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• 2007

Xylan이 풍부한 식물체를 먹이로 하는 하늘소의 장내에 존재하는 xylanase 생산 미생물의 탐색 과정에서 털두꺼비하늘소 (Moechotypa diphysis) 성충의 장으로부터 우수한 xylanase 생산균주 Paenibacillus sp. HY-8을 분리하였다. 생화학적, 계통학적 분석결과를 바탕으로 이 분리균은 Paenibacillus 속에 속하는 종으로 분석되었다. HY-8 균주에서 xylanase 생산은 제한배지에 xylan을 첨가함으로써 유도되는 특성을 나타내었고 1% 의 yeast extract와 0.5%의 birchwood xylan이 포함된 M9 배지에서 $25^{\circ}C$, 24시간의 배양에 의해 xylanase의 생산이 최대치에 도달하였다. HY-8 균주가 생산하는 xylanase는 pH6.0에서 여러 가지 식물성 사료의 원료에 대하여 대조구로 사용된 Tricoderma sp. 유래의 xylanase에 비해 우수한 분해능을 나타내었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.1753-1759
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• 2006

Paenibacillus sp. HY-8 isolated from the digestive tracts of the longicorn beetle, Moechotypa diphysis, produced an extracellular endoxylanase with a molecular weight of 20 kDa estimated by SDS-PAGE. The xylanase was purified to near electrophoretic homogeneity from the culture supernatant after ammonium sulfate precipitation, gel filtration, and ionexchange chromatography. The purified xylanase exhibited the highest activities at pH 6.0 and $50^{\circ}C$. The $K_m\;and\;V_{max}$ values were 7.2 mg/ml and 16.3 U/mg, respectively, for birchwood xylan as the substrate. Nucleotide sequence of the PCR-cloned gene was determined to have the open reading frame encoding a polypeptide of 212 amino acids. The N-terminal amino acid sequence and the nucleotide sequence analyses predicted that the precursor xylanase contained a signal peptide composed of 28 amino acids and a catalytically active 19.9-kDa peptide fragment. The deduced amino acid sequence shared extensive similarity with those of the glycoside hydrolase family 11 of xylanases from other bacteria. The predicted amino acid sequence contained two glutamate residues, previously identified as essential and conserved for active sites in other xylanases of the glycoside hydrolase family 11.