• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.53-56
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• 2000

A thermostable esterase from the hyper thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus was partially purified 590-fold with $16.2\%$ recovery. The partially purified esterase had a specific activity of $29.5\;{\mu}mol\;min^{-1}mg^{-1}$ when the enzyme activity was determined using p-nitrophenyl butyrate as a substrate. The apparent molecular weight was about 100 kDa, while the optimum temperature and pH for esterase were $75^{\circ}C$ and 8.0, respectively. The enzyme showed high thermal stability and solvent tolerance in comparison to its mesophilic counterpart. The enzyme also showed chiral resolution activity for (S)-ibuprofen, indicating that S. solfataricus esterase can be used for the production of commercially important chiral drugs.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2000년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.501-504
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• 2000

The purification of a thermostable esterase expressed in Escherichia coli was investigated using thermoprecipitation of unclarified cell homogenates followed by after applying the heat-treated lysate to phenyl-sepharose column, and elution with detergent. Heat treatment at $70^{cdot}C$ was capable of removing to E. coli proteins. Specially, the thermoprecipitation with 15% polyethylene glycol 8000 can remove host proteins and nucleic acids efficiently. Various detergents were used to recover the esterase, which was strongly bound to phenyl-sepharose resin. Triton X-100, non-ionic detergent, was found to be the most efficient of all tested detergents.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.37-42
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• 1997

A bacterial strain L1 producing a thermostable esterase was isolated from soil taken near a hot spring and identified as Bacillus stearothermophilus by its microbiological properties. The isolated thermostable esterase was purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation, ion .exchange and hydrophobic interaction chromatographies. The molecular weight of the purified enzyme was estimated to be 50,000 by SDS-PAGE. Its optimum temperature and pH for hydrolytic activity against PNP caprylate were $85^{\circ}C$ and 9.0, respectively. The purified enzyme was stable up to $70^{\circ}C$ and at a broad pH range of 4.0-11.5 in the presence of bovine serum albumin. The enzyme was inhibited by phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride and diethyl p-nitrophenyl phosphate, indicating the enzyme is a serine esterase. The enzyme obeyed Michaelis-Menten kinetics in the hydrolysis of PNPEs and had maximum activity for PNP caproate ($C_6$) among PNPEs ($C_2-C_12$) tested.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2001년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.625-628
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• 2001

토양으로부터 특이적인 광학 이성질체에 활성을 갖는 두 효소원을 선별한 후, 동정하여 Pseudomonas sp. S34와 B. stearothermophilus JY144로 명명하였고, genecloning과 sequencing을 통해 유전자의 특성 및 관련효소들과의 유연관계를 규명하였다. 규명된 정보의 분석과 비교를 통해 ketoprofen ethyl ester에 활성을 갖는 효소들의 구조적 특성을 추론할 수 있었고, 이를 바탕으로 발현시스템을 구축하였다. 대량생산된 효소를 활용한 반응의 결과 높은 수율과 순도를 갖는 각각의 광학이성질체를 경제적으로 생산할 수 있었다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.588-594
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• 2007

A novel hot spring thermophile, Anoxybacillus gonensis A4 (A. gonensis A4) was investigated in terms of capability of tributyrin degradation and characterization of its thermostable esterase activity by the hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl butyrate (PNPB). It was observed that A. gonensis A4 has an esterase with a molecular weight of 62 kDa. The extracellular crude preparation was characterized in terms of substrate specificity, pH and temperature optima and stability, kinetic parameters and inhibition/activation behaviour towards some chemicals and metal ions. Tributyrin agar assay showed that A. gonensis A4 secreted an esterase and $V_{max}$ and $K_m$ values of its activity were found to be 800 U/L and 176.5 ${\mu}M$, respectively in the presence of PNPB substrate. The optimum temperature and pH, for A. gonensis A4 esterase was $60-80^{\circ}C$ and 5.5, respectively. Although the enzyme activity was not significantly changed by incubating crude extract solution at $30-70^{\circ}C$ for 1 h, the enzyme activity was fully lost at $80^{\circ}C$ for same incubation period. The pH-stability profile showed that original crude esterase activity increased nearly 2-fold at pH 6.0. The effect of some chemicals on crude esterase activity indicated that A. gonensis A4 produce an esterase having serine residue in active site and -SH groups were essential for its activity.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.143-148
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• 2019

라세믹체 형태의 전구물질 methyl DL-${\beta}$-acetylthioisobutyrate (DL-ester)로부터 captopril 합성과정의 중간물질로 알려져 있는 D-${\beta}$-acetylthioisobutyric acid (DAT)를 효율적으로 제조하기 위해 광학선택적 esterase활성을 가진 신규 미생물을 탐색하였고 활성이 우수한 균주 CJ-317과 균주 CJ-187을 선별하고 동정한 결과, 각각 Klebsiella pneumoniae와 Pseudomonas putida로 동정하였다. 두 균주가 생산하는 esterase의 최적 반응온도와 내열성을 조사한 결과, P. putida CJ-187와 K. pneumoniae CJ-317의 최적활성은 각각 $60^{\circ}C$와 $75^{\circ}C$이었으며 또한 P. putida CJ-187의 경우, $60^{\circ}C$까지 안정한 반면 K. pneumoniae CJ-317은 $80^{\circ}C$에서도 1시간 동안 안정된 내열성 효소의 특성을 보였다. DAT에 의한 최종 산물의 활성 저해도에 있어서도 P. putida CJ-187은 2.5%와 5%의 DAT에 대해 각각 55%와 80%의 저해활성을 보인 반면 K. pneumoniae CJ-317는 각각 35%와 44%의 낮은 저해활성을 보임으로서 K. pneumoniae CJ-317은 captopril 합성의 중간체인 DAT 제조과정에 유용하게 활용할 수 있는 우수한 내열성 광학선택적 esterase 활성을 가지는 신규 균주임을 확인하였다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2005년도 생물공학의 동향(XVI)
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• pp.316-316
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• 2005

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.483-491
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• 2021

Two putative genes, lip29 and est29, encoding lipolytic enzymes from the thermophilic bacterium Geobacillus thermocatenulatus KCTC 3921 were cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant Lip29 and Est29 were purified 67.3-fold to homogeneity with specific activity of 2.27 U/mg and recovery of 5.8% and 14.4-fold with specific activity of 0.92 U/mg and recovery of 1.3%, respectively. The molecular mass of each purified enzyme was estimated to be 29 kDa by SDS-PAGE. The alignment analysis of amino acid sequences revealed that both enzymes belonged to GDSL lipase/esterase family including conserved blocks with SGNH catalytic residues which was mainly identified in plants before. While Est29 showed high specificity toward short-chain fatty acids (C4-C8), Lip29 showed strong lipolytic activity to long-chain fatty acids (C12-C16). The optimal activity of Lip29 toward p-nitrophenyl palmitate as a substrate was observed at 50℃ and pH 9.5, respectively, and its activity was maintained more than 24 h at optimal temperatures, indicating that Lip29 was thermostable. Lip29 exhibited high tolerance against detergents and metal ions. The homology modeling and substrate docking revealed that the long-chain substrates showed the greatest binding affinity toward enzyme. Based on the biochemical and insilico analyses, we present for the first time a GDSL-type lipase in the thermophilic bacteria group.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.57-60
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• 2000

$(R)-\beta-acetylmercaptoisobutyric$ acid (RAM), a chiral compound, is an important intermediate for the chemical synthesis of various antihypertensive and congestive heart failure drugs. Microorganisms capable of converting $(R,S)-\beta-acetylmercaptoisobutyric$ acid ((R,S)-ester) to RAM were screened from soil microorganisms. A strain of Pseudomonas sp. 1001 screened from a soil sample was selected to be the best. Cells showed an activity of 540 U/mL from culture broth and the enzyme was thermostable up to $70^{\circ}C$. This strain could produce RAM asymmetrically from (R,S)-ester.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2002년도 생물공학의 동향 (X)
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• pp.457-460
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• 2002

In an effort to isolate novel strains expressing a thermostable esterase that hydrolyzed the rac-ketoprofen ethyl ester to ketoprofen in the stereospecific manner, we screened various soils and composts from broad ecological niches in which the activity was expected to be found. Three hundreds of microbial strains were tested to determine their ester-hydrolyzing activity by using an agar plate containing insoluble tributyrin as an indicative substrate, and then further screened by activity on the (R,S)-ketoprofen ethyl ester. Twenty-six strains were screened primarily at high growth and incubation temperature and further compared the ability to ethyl ester-hydrolyzing activity in terms of conversion yield and chiral specificity. Consequently, a strain JYl44 was isolated as a novel strain that produced a (R)-stereospecific esterase with high stability and systematically identified as a Bacillus stearothermophilus JY144. The enzyme indeed stables at a broad range of temperature, upto 65 $^{\circ}C$, and pH ranging from 6.0 to 10.0. The optimal temperature and pH for enzymatic conversion were 50 $^{\circ}C$ and 9.0, respectively. Based on the observations that resulted a poor cell growth, and enzyme expression in wild type strain, we further attempted the gene cloning into a general host Escherichia coli and determined its primary structure, concomitantly resulting a high level expression of the enzyme. The cloned gene had an open reading frame (250 amino acids) with a calculated molecular mass of 27.4 kDa, and its primary structure showed a relative high homology (45-52 %) to the esterases from Streptomyces and Bacillus strains. The recombinant whole cell enzyme could efficiently convert the rac-ketoprofen ethyl ester to (R)-ketoprofen, with optical purity of 99 % and yield of 49 %.