• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.933-941
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• 2008

An extracellular $\beta$-glucosidase produced by Monascus purpureus NRRL1992 in submerged cultivation was purified by acetone precipitation, gel filtration, and hydrophobic interaction chromatography, resulting in a purification factor of 92-fold. A $2^2$ central-composite design (CCD) was performed to find the best temperature and pH conditions for enzyme activity. Maximum activity was observed in a wide range of temperature and pH values, with optimal conditions set at $50^{\circ}C$ and pH 5.5. The $\beta$-glucosidase showed moderate thermostability, was inhibited by $HgCl_2$, $K_2Cr_O_4$, and $K_2Cr_2O_7$, whereas other reagents including $\beta$-mercaptoethanol, SDS, and EDTA showed no effect. Activity was slightly stimulated by low concentrations of ethanol and methanol. Hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl-$\beta$-D-glucopyranoside (pNPG), cellobiose, salicin, n-octyl-$\beta$-D-glucopyranoside, and maltose indicates that the $\beta$-glucosidase has broad substrate specificity. Apparently, glucosyl residues were removed from the nonreducing end of p-nitrophenyl-$\beta$-D-cellobiose. $\beta$-Glucosidase affinity and hydrolytic efficiency were higher for pNPG, followed by maltose and cellobiose. Glucose and cellobiose competitively inhibited pNPG hydrolysis.

• Journal of Life Science
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.111-115
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• 2001

This study was designed to clone the SNF2/SW12 helicase-related genes from the fission yeast Schizosaccha-romyces pombe and thereafter to elucidate the common functions of the proteins in this family. The $hrp^{2+}$gene was cloned by polymerase chain reaction amplification using degenerative primers from conserved SNF2 motifs within the ERCC6 gene, which encodes a protein involved in DNA excision repair. Like other SNF2/SW12 family proteins, the deduced amino acid sequence of Hrp2 contains DNA-dependent ATPase/7 helicase domains as well as the chromodomain and the DNA binding domain. This configuration is similar to that of mCHD1 (mouse chromo-ATPase/helicase-DNA-dinding protein 1), suggesting that Hrp2 is a S. pombe homolog of mCHD1, which is thought to function in altering the chromatin structure to control the gene expression. To characterize the function of Hrp2, 4 Uracil-Hrp2 fusion protein, it was purified near homogeneity by affinity chromatography on $Ni^{2+}$-NTA agarose, DEAE-Sepharose ion exchange arid Sephacryl S-200 gel filtration chromatographies. The purified fusion protein exhibited DNA-dependent ATPase activity, which was stimulated by both double-stranded and single-stranded DNA. To determine the steady-state level of $hrp^{2+}$ transcripts during growth, cells were cultured in medium and collected at every 2hr to prepare total RNAs. The northern blot analysis showed that the level of $hrp^{2+}$ transcripts reached its maximum before the cells entered the exponential growth phase and then decreased gradually, This result implies that Hrp2 may be required at early stages of cell growth.h.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.19-22
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• 2007

Acetohydroxylacid synthase (E.C.2.2.1.6.,AHAS)는 박테리아, 곰팡이, 식물 등에서 필수 아미노산중 세 가지 아미노산(Val, Leu, Ile)의 생합성에 관여하는 효소중 하나이다. Haemophilus influenzae에 대한 AHAS의 효소특성을 규명하기 위하여 H. influenzae의 AHAS catalytic subunit 유전자(TIGR access code HI2585)를 pET28a 발현 벡터에 삽입시켰고, 대장균 BL21(DE3)에서 C-말단에 일련의 histidine을 갖는 재조합 단백질로 발현시켰고, Histidine-tag affinity chromatography 및 gel filtration chromatography를 이용하여 단일 단백질로 정제하였다. 정제하여 얻은 단백질은 최대 15 mg/ml까지 농축이 가능하였다. 정제된 단백질의 분자량은 SDS-PAGE 전기 영동법을 이용하여 약 63.9 kDa의 분자량을 확인하였다. AHAS 효소 활성은 discontinuous colorimetric assay방법을 이용하여 측정하였다. H. influenzae AHAS catalytic subunit의 specific activity는 3.22 U/mg 이었다. 또한AHAS의 최적 활성 온도와 pH는 각각$37^{\circ}C$와 pH 7.5이었다. AHAS 효소 활성은buffer의 종류에 따라 차이가 있었으며, 유기용매가 증가함에 따라 효소 활성도 감소하였다.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.67-80
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• 2005

미꾸라지 (mudloach, Misgunus mizolepis)의 간으로부터 클로닝한 phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C$\delta$ (ML-PLC$\delta$)를 대장균 (E. coli)에서 과발현시켜 만든 재조합 ML-PLC$\delta$와 미꾸라지 간 조직으로부터 직접 정제한 ML-PLC$\delta$의 생화학적 특성을 비교분석하였다. 우선, pET28a vector (Novagen)를 이용하여 E. coli BL21(DE3)에서 과발현된 재조합 ML-PLC$\delta$은 $Ni^{2+}$-NTA affinity 크로마토그래피 및 gel filtration 칼럼에 의해서 정제되었다. 미꾸라지 간 조직으로 ML-PLC$\delta$는 open heparin 칼럼 및 분석용 heparin 칼럼등을 통하여 부분 정제하였다. 두개의 재조합 및 wild ML-PLC$\delta$는 phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bis-phosphate ($PIP_2$)에 대한 농도 의존적 PLC 활성을 보여주었고, 그 활성은 포유류 PLC$\delta$ 효소와 유사하게 칼슘 농도에 의존적인 활성을 나타내었다. 재조합 및 wild ML-PLC$\delta$는 각각 pH 7.0 및 7.5에서 가장 큰 PI-가수분해 활성을 나타낸다는 사실을 알 수 있었다. 게다가, 재조합 및 wild ML-PLC$\delta$는 sodium doecylcholate (SDC) 및 phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylcholine (PC)와 같은 지질류에 대하여 농도의존적인 활성을 나타내나, spermine과 같은 polyamine류의 존재하에서는 농도 의존적으로 PLC 활성이 감소됨을 알 수 있었다. 미꾸라지 각 기관들의 ML-PLC$\delta$의 발현양상 및 양등을 측정하여 보았을 때 ML-PLC$\delta$는 포유류 PLC$\delta$와 마찬가지로 다양한 형태의 PLC$\delta$가 존재함을 알 수 있었다. 이와 같은 결과들로 미루어서 미꾸라지로부터 얻은 ML-PLC$\delta$는 포유류의 PLC$\delta$ isozymes과 유사한 형태의 생화학적 특성을 가지나, 포유류 PLC$\delta$1과 PLC$\delta$3 isozyme의 생화학적 특성을 함께 가짐을 알 수 있었다.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.188-195
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• 1993

In order to understand the machanism of action and regulation of ${\beta}$-adrenergic receptor in terms of molecular level, the purification of receptor protein has a fundamental importance. Moreover, species differences among avian, amphibian and mammalian ${\beta}$-adrenergic receptors make it more important to purify mammalian ${\beta}$-adrenergic receptor. Because ${\beta}$-adrenergic receptor is an integral membrane protein, it must be solubilized from the membrane for the purification. The purpose of the present study was to solubilize and characterize the mammalian $\beta$-adrenergic receptor from guinea pig lung in quantities by more efficient and practical method eventually to purify receptor. Guinea pig lung membrane preparation was solubilized by sequential treatment of buffers containing low and high concentration of digitonin which are 0.2 and 1.2% respectively. About 50% of the total receptor pool was released by this double extraction procedure. The $\beta$-adrenoceptors in the digitonin extract were identified using the ${\beta}$-adrenergic antagonist, (-)-[$^3H$]-dihydroalprenolol ([$^3H$]DHA). The solubilized receptor retained all of the essential characteristics of membrane-bound receptor, namely saturability; stereoselectivity; high affinity to ${\beta}$-adrenergic drugs. For the measurement of soluble receptor activity, Sephadex G-50 chromatography method has been widely used. Inspite of its accuracy and wide acceptance, this technique employed troublesome column work which required long time to assay the activity of receptor. We employed another methods to measure receptor activity. When using 0.5% polyethylenimine pretreated GF/B glass fiber filter, filtration technique could be used to measure soluble receptor activity. This technique enabled us to reduce the total amount of time to assay by a factor of 4 as well as to detect soluble receptor. In the present study, we could establish more efficient and practical solubilization method of mammalian $\beta$-adrenergic receptor. The rapidity and high yield of this solubilization scheme, together with the favorable recovery of the receptor activity, are significant steps toward the ultimate purification of the mammalian $\beta$-adrenergic receptor. The result of this study together with more convenient purification method could provide large amount of purified receptor with ease for various research purposes.

• BMB Reports
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.432-440
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• 2006

A tuber lectin from Arisaema jacquemontii Blume belonging to family Araceae was purified by employing a single step affinity chromatography using column of asialofetuin-linked amino activated silica beads and the bound lectin was eluted with 100 mM glycine-HCl buffer pH 2.5. The purified A. jacquemontii lectin (AJL) showed a single protein band with an apparent molecular mass of 13.4 kDa when submitted to SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under reducing as well as non-reducing conditions. The native molecular mass of AJL determined by gel filtration on a Biogel P-200 column was 52 kDa and its carbohydrate content was estimated to be 3.40%. Thus AJL is a tetrameric glycoprotein. The purified lectin agglutinated erythrocytes from rabbit but not from human. Its activity was not inhibited by any of the mono- and disaccharides tested except N-acetyl-D-lactosamine having minimal inhibitory sugar concentration (MIC) 25 mM. Among the glycoproteins tested only asialofetuin was found to be inhibitory (MIC $125\;{\mu}g/mL$). A single band was obtained in native PAGE at pH 4.5 while PAGE at pH 8.3 showed two bands. Isoelectric focusing of AJL gave multiple bands in the pI range of 4.6-5.5. When incorporated in artificial diet AJL significantly affected the development of Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) larvae indicating the possibility of using this lectin in a biotechnological strategy for insect management of cucurbits. Larvae fed on artificial diet containing sub-lethal dose of AJL showed a significant decrease in acid phosphatase and alkaline phosphatase activity while esterase activity markedly increased as compared to larvae fed on diet without lectin. Out of various human cancer cell lines employed in sulphorhodamine B (SRB) assay, this lectin was found to have appreciable inhibitory effect on the in vitro proliferation of HCT-15, HOP-62, SW-620, HT-29, IMR-32, SKOV-3, Colo-205, PC-3, HEP-2 and A-549 cancer cell lines by 82, 77, 73, 70, 41, 41, 37, 29, 21 and 21% respectively.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.248-258
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• 1979

저자들은 Cibacron Blue F3G-A Separose 컬럼 어피니티크로마토그래피에 의하여 GIn-cose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase를 Leuconostoc mesenteroides로부터 순수 분리한 바 있다. 이 효소를 사용하여 효소특성을 조사한 결과 분자량은 Sephadex G-200 컬럼에 의해 112,000이었으며 최적온도는 50$^{\circ}$, 활성화에너 지는 8.36kcal/mole 불활성화에너지는 -58.2kcal/mole로 나타났다. $NADP^+$를 조효소로 사용하였을때 최적 pH7.8에서 K_{G6p}:76.9${\mu}$M, ${\alpha}K_{NADP}:\;7.46{\mu}M,\;{\alpha}KNNADP:\;7.l4{\mu}M$이었으며 같은 조건에서 $NAD^+$를 조효소로 사용하였을때 $K_{G6P}:\;53.65{\mu}M,\;K_{NAD}:\;115.2{\mu}M\;{\alpha}K_{NAD}:\;707.2{\mu}M$이었다. 따라서 $NADP^+$ 및 $NAD^+$를 조효소로 사용한 경우에 있어서 ${\alpha}$ 값은 각각 1과 6으로 나타났다. pH변화에 따른 반응속도상수의 변화에 의하면 $NAD^+$를 조효소로 하였을때 최적 pH는 7.8 이었고 pKa가 7.2인 활성기와 ${\mu}Kb$가 9.0∼9.6인 활성기가 효소와 기질의 상호작용에 관여함을 알았다. 이중 pKa 7.2인 활성기를 밝히기 위하여 효소를 광산화와 carboxymethylation을 시킨결과 histidine의 imidazole기임을 알수 있있다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.1218-1225
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• 2009

DFA (Difructose anhydride)는 특유의 구조적인 안정성 때문에 당뇨병 환자를 위한 당원으로써 적합하다는 연구가 보고 되어 있다. DFA에는 4가지 type이 있는데 inulin에 의한 DFA I DFA III DFAV가 있고 levan에 의한 DFA IV가 있는 것으로 알려져 있다. 특히 DFA IV는 당뇨병 환자를 위한 당원 뿐 만 아니라 rat을 이용한 연구에서 칼슘의 흡수를 도와 준다는 보고가 있었다. 이러한 DFAIV를 생성하는 데 쓰이는 Microbacterium sp. AL-210에서 유래한 LFTase (Levan fructotransferase)의 wild-type과 mutants (D63A, D195N, N85S)의 구조적 특성을 밝히기 위해 정제하였다. LFTase의 wild-type과 mutants들을 대량 발현시킨 후 흡착 크로마토그래피, 이온교환 크로마토그래피 그리고 젤 여과 크로마토그래피를 이용하여 고순도로 분리 정제하였으며 이를 SDS-PAGE를 통하여 확인하였다. 분리 정제된 단백질을 JNET 이차 구조 예측 프로그램, solubility 측정, CD (원 편광 이색성 분광편광계), fluorescence spectroscopy (형광분석법), DSC (시차주사열량계)를 이용하여 분석하였다. 또한 다중 정렬과 2차 구조 예측 프로그램을 이용하여 wild-type의 2차 구조를 분석하였다. Solubility 측정에서 가장 적합한 온도는 $55^{\circ}C$, 최상의 pH는 7.5로 나타났다. CD 분석에서 wild-type과 비교한 결과 다른 mutant에 비해 N85S의 $\alpha$-helix가 많이 감소한 것과 $\beta$ strand와 random coil이 증가한 것을 확인하였다. 또한 DSC 분석을 통해 wild-type이 다른 mutants에 비해 안정적인 구조를 지닌 것을 확인하였다. 형광분석에서 N85S가 wild-type과 가장 유사하게 나타났으며 D63A와 D195N은 wild-type에 비해 높은 강도를 나타내었다. 또한 wild-type의 sequence를 Exo-inulinase from Aspegillus awamori, a plant fructan 1-exohydrolase from Cichorium intybus 그리고 invertase from Thermotogo maritime (Tm)의 sequence와 다중 정렬한 결과 Exo-inulinase와 높은 identity를 보였다.