• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.622-631
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• 2006

In this study we purified a fibrinolytic enzyme from Cordyceps militaris using a combination of ion-exchange chromatography on a DEAE Sephadex A-50 column, gel filtration chromatography on a Sephadex G-75 column, and FPLC on a HiLoad 16/60 Superdex 75 column. This purification protocol resulted in a 191.8-fold purification of the enzyme and a final yield of 12.9 %. The molecular mass of the purified enzyme was estimated to be 52 kDa by SDS-PAGE, fibrin-zymography, and gel filtration chromatography. The first 19 amino acid residues of the N-terminal sequence were ALTTQSNV THGLATISLRQ, which is similar to the subtilisin-like serine protease PR1J from Metarhizium anisopliae var. anisopliase. This enzyme is a neutral protease with an optimal reaction pH and temperature of 7.4 and $37^{\circ}C$, respectively. Results for the fibrinolysis pattern showed that the enzyme rapidly hydrolyzed the fibrin $\alpha$-chain followed by the $\gamma$-$\gamma$ chains. It also hydrolyzed the $\beta$-chain, but more slowly. The A$\alpha$, B$\beta$, and $\gamma$ chains of fibrinogen were also cleaved very rapidly. We found that enzyme activity was inhibited by $Cu^{2+}$ and $Co^{2+}$, but enhanced by the additions of $Ca^{2+}$ and $Mg^{2+}$ ions. Furthermore, fibrinolytic enzyme activity was potently inhibited by PMSF and APMSF. This enzyme exhibited a high specificity for the chymotrypsin substrate S-2586 indicating it's a chymotrypsin-like serine protease. The data we present suggest that the fibrinolytic enzyme derived from the edible and medicinal mushroom Cordyceps militaris has fibrin binding activity, which allows for the local activation of the fibrin degradation pathway.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.80-85
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• 2010

보리 맥아로부터 발견된 서로 다른 알파아밀라제 동질효소(AMY1, AMY2)는 80%에 달하는 높은 아미노산 서열의 상동성을 보이지만, 두 효소의 특성은 서로 달라 AMY1 효소는 낮은 농도의 칼슘 조건에서 최대 활성을 보이는 반면, AMY2 효소는 높은 칼슘이온 농도에서 높은 활성을 나타낸다. 또한 BASI (Barley ${\alpha}$-Amylase/Subtilisin Inhibitor) 단백질은 AMY2 효소만을 특이적으로 저해한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 AMY1과 AMY2 효소의 유전자를 I, II, III의 세 부위로 나눈 후, 제한효소 처리에 의해 일부 부위를 상호 치환한 4종의 chimera 효소를 추가로 제조하고, Pichia pastoris 균주에서 대량 발현하였다. 이들 효소의 특성을 비교한 결과, 제 I 부위만이 상호치환된 AMY211 및 AMY122 효소의 경우, AMY1과 AMY2의 중간적 칼슘 의존성을 나타내었으며, BASI에 의한 저해효과는 AMY2의 제 I, II 부위를 포함하는 AMY221 효소에서만 관찰되었다. 따라서 보리 아밀라제의 제 I 부위 및 제 II 부위에 존재하는 아미노산 잔기들이 칼슘 의존성 및 BASI와의 결합에 중요한 역할을 담당하는 반면 제 III 부위는 이들 효소의 활성 차이에 영향을 미치지 않음을 확인하였다.

• 한국미생물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국미생물생명공학회 2001년도 Proceedings of 2001 International Symposium
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• pp.40-45
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• 2001

Raw starch-digesting amylase (BF-2A, M.W. 93, 000 Da) from Bacillus circulans F-2 was converted to two components during digestion with subtilisin. Two components were separated and designated as BF-2A' (63, 000 Da) and BF-2B (30, 000 Da), respectively. BF-2A' exhibited the same hydrolysis curve for soluble starch as the original amylase (BF-2A). Moreover, the catalytic activities of original and modified enzymes were indistinguishable in $K_{m}$, Vmax for, and in their specific activity for soluble starch hydrolysis. However, its adsorbability and digestibility on raw starch was greatly decreased. Furthermore, the enzymatic action pattern on soluble starch was greatly different from that of the BF-2A. A smaller peptide (BF-2B) showed adsorb ability onto raw starch. By these results, it is suggested that the larger peptide (BF-2A') has a region responsible for the expression of the enzyme activity to hydrolyze soluble substrate, and the smaller peptide (BF-2B) plays a role on raw starch adsorption. A similar phenomenon is observed during limited proteinase K, thermolysin, and endopeptidase Glu-C proteolysis of the enzyme. Fragments resulting from proteolysis were characterized by immunoblotting with anti-RSDA. The proteolytic patterns resulting from proteinase K and subtilisin were the same, producing 63- and 30-kDa fragments. Similar patterns were obtained with endopeptidase Glu-C or thermolysin. All proteolytic digests contained a common, major 63-kDa fragment. Inactivation of RSDA activity results from splitting off the C-terminal domain. Hence, it seems probable that the protease sensitive locus is in a hinge region susceptible to cleavage. Extracellular enzymes immunoreactive toward anti-RSDA were detected through whole bacterial cultivation. Proteins of sizes 93-, 75-, 63-, 55-, 38-, and 31-kDa were immunologically identical to RSDA. Of these, the 75-kDa and 63-kDa proteins correspond to the major products of proteolysis with Glu-C and thermolysin. These results postulated that enzyme heterogeneity of the raw starch-hydrolysis system might arise from the endogeneous proteolytic activity of the bacterium. Truncated forms of rsda, in which the gene sequence encoding the conserved domain had been deleted, directed the synthesis of a functional amylase that did not bind to raw starch. This indicates that the conserved region of RSDA constitutes a raw starch-binding domain, which is distinct from the active centre. The possible role of this substrate-binding region is discussed.d.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.151-157
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• 2010

보리 맥아로부터 발견된 서로 다른 알파아밀라제 동질효소(AMY1, AMY2)는 80%에 달하는 높은 아미노산 서열의 상동성을 보이지만, 효소적 특성은 서로 매우 다르다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 staggered extension process(StEP) 기술을 이용하여 AMY1과 AMY2 유전자가 조합된 5종의 chimera 효소를 제조하고, 각각의 특성을 비교하여 총 8개 부위(I~VIII)의 영향을 확인하였다. 결과적으로, AMY-D2, D8, E12 chimera 효소의 경우, AMY1과 AMY2의 중간적 칼슘의존성을 보였으며, BASI(barley $\alpha$-amylase/subtilisin inhibitor) 단백질에 의한 저해효과는 AMY-E10 효소에서만 관찰되었다. 한편 AMY-C6의 경우, AMY1과 유사한 효소특성을 보였으며, AMY-E10은 AMY2 형태의 칼슘의존성을 나타내었다. 따라서 보리 아밀라제의 제 II, III, IV부위가 BASI와의 상호작용에 중요한 역할을 담당하며, 제 III, V, VI, VII부위는 칼슘의존성에 부분적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 판단하였다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제34권8호
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• pp.576-587
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• 2024

본 연구에서는 항균활성을 나타내는 미생물을 선별하기 위해 발효식품에서 다양한 세균을 분리하였다. 박테리오신을 생산하는 한 분리주를 최종적으로 선별하여 16S rRNA 유전자 서열 분석을 통해 Bacillus vallismortis로 동정하고 B. vallismortis MCBL 1012로 명명하였다. B. vallismortis MCBL 1012의 배양 상등액은 주로 그람 양성균에 대해 항균활성을 나타내었다. SEM 사진에 의하면 지시균에 박테리오신을 처리하면 Listeria monocytogenes KCCM 40307, Enterococcus faecium KCCM 12118 및 Streptococcus mutans KCTC 3065의 세포 내용물이 누출되는 것으로 확인되었다. PCR 분석 결과 B. vallismortis MCBL 1012에는 subtilosin A 유전자(sbo A)가 포함되어 있는 것으로 나타났다. 항균 활성은 proteinase K, subtilisin A 및 α-chymotrypsin에 의해 감소되었다. 박테리오신 활성은 40℃와 60℃에서 120분 동안, 80℃에서는 60분 동안 유지했으나 100℃에서는 급격하게 감소하였다. 항균활성은 pH 4.0-8.0 범위에서 온전히 유지되었다. 항균활성은 에탄올, 메탄올, 아세토니트릴, 테트라히드로푸란과 같은 유기용매 100%까지는 영향을 받지 않았으나, 이소프로판올 40%, 아세톤 80% 이상에서는 감소하였다. 시험한 대부분의 무기염 및 세제는 시험 농도의 CuSO₄ 및 NiSO₄를 제외하고 항균 활성에 영향을 미치지 않았다. 박테리오신은 L. monocytogenes KCCM 40307에 대한 살균작용을 통해 항균활성을 나타내었다. 박테리오신은 황산암모늄 농축, DEAE 음이온 교환 크로마토그래피 및 RP-HPLC등을 통해 정제하였다. 정제 결과 최종 수율은 0.03%, 비활성은 283.7배 증가하였다. MALDI-TOF MS 분석을 통해 정제된 박테리오신의 정확한 분자량은 3,326.1 Da로 측정되었다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.498-507
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• 2002

A gene that encodes a thermostable protease, coined thermicin, has been isolated from Thermoanaerobacter yonseiensis that is expressed and characterized in E. coli.. In order to elucidate the molecular characteristics on thermostability of the enzyme, molecular modeling and mutagenesis technology were applied. In the modeling structure, the structural core, including the active site, was well conserved; whereas, the two loop regions were unique when compared to thermitase. The mutant enzyme with the small loop deleted (D190-I196), based on modeling structural information, showed identical enzyme activity. However, when the large loop was deleted (P233-P244), a little lower $K_m$ and even a lower kcat was found. This indicates that the large loop could influence catalytic activity. However, the unfolding temperature ($T_m$), which was determined by a differential-scanning calorimetry for the mutant enzyme deleted the small loop, was $96^{\circ}C$. This is $14^{\circ}C$ lower than that for the parent thermicin. These results suggest that the small loop may play a role in maintaining the proper folding of the enzyme at high temperatures, whereas the large loop might be related to catalysis.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.21-27
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• 1998

The xylA gene of Bacillus stearothermophilus encoding the major ${\beta}$-xylosidase was previously cloned and sequenced. In the present study we examined the regulation of the cloned xylA gene expression in Bauillus subtilis MW15 carrying the xylA::aprA fusion plasmids. The induction of the fused xylA gene expression remained uninfluenced by any of the carbon sources tested but the gene expression was repressed about 2-3 fold in the presence of glucose. Two CRE-like sequences (CRE-1: nucleotides ＋ 124 to ＋136 and CRE-2: ＋247 to ＋259) were recognized within the reading frame region of the xylA gene. The deletion experiments showed that the CRE-2 sequence had a role in catabolite repression (CR) as a true CRE of the xylA gene, but the CRE-1 had no effect on CR of the xylA gene expression. Surprisingly, the deletion of the CRE- 1 sequence reduced about 2~3 fold of the expression of the xylA fused gene. The repression ratios of the xylA gene expression were estimated to be about 0.4 from the assay of subtilisin activity, and about 0.3 at the level of transcription by determining the amounts of xylA transcripts in B. subtilis. While, the level of CR of the xylA gene was assessed to be about l0-fold in previous work when the relative amounts of the xylA transcripts were measured in B. stearothermophilus.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.667-674
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• 2005

The leaves of Persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) has long been used for tea in Korea since it was thought to be effective against hypertension. An anticoagulant fraction was purified through gel filtration G-100, hydrophobic, gel filtration G-150, and FPLC, Phenyl superpose column chromatographies. The purified fraction was homogenous and its Mr was estimated 10,000 Da by gel filtration and SDS-PAGE. The purified fraction was sensitive to treatment of subtilisin B, but not to heat and its activity was not changed after periodate oxidation, indicating that the activity was not due to carbohydrates. It delayed thrombin time (TT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), and prothrombin time (PT) using human plasma. TT was more sensitive than APTT and PT, suggesting that the anticoagulant activity may be caused by a degradation or a defect of fibrin or thrombin. It did not cause the hydrolysis of fibrin after incubation. However, it inhibited thrombin-catalyzed fibrin formation with a competitive inhibition pattern. These results indicate that it may be an antithrombotic agent and that it is bound to fibrinogen binding sites of thrombin.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.515-522
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• 2005

Enzyme-metal combo catalysis is described as a useful methodology for the synthesis of optically active compounds. The key point of the method is the use of enzyme and metal in combination as the catalysts for the complete transformation of racemic substrates to single enantiomeric products through dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR). In this approach, enzyme acts as an enantioselective resolving catalyst and metal does as a racemizing catalyst for the efficient DKR. Three kinds of enzyme-metal combinations - lipase-ruthenium, subtilisin-ruthenium, and lipase-palladium –have been developed as the catalysts for the DKRs of racemic alcohols, esters, and amines. The scope of the combination catalysts can be extended to the asymmetric transformations of ketones, enol acetates, and ketoximes via the DKRs. In most cases studied, enzyme-metal combo catalysis provided enantiomerically-enriched products in high yields.

• 한국동물학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.119-125
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• 1990

Trypsin을 비롯한 여러 serine protease를 저해하는 단백질을 계골격근으로부터 여러 chromatography 방법을 이용하여 순수하게 분리하였다. 이 저해제의 분자량은 젤 여과법을 이용하여 측정한 결과 66,000 달톤이었으며 sodium dodecyl sulfate 존지하에서 전기영동하였을 때 66,000과 64,000 달톤의 두 단백질로서 나타났다. 이 중 64,000 달톤의 단백질은 순수분리과정 혹은 생체 내에서 일어난 부분 절제현상에 기인한 66,000 달톤 단백질의 부산물인 것으로 사료된다. 이 저해제는 약 7.4의 등전점을 가진 당 단백질임을 알 수 있었으며, 다량의 cysteine잔기를 포함하고 있다.