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Effects of C-Terminal Domain Truncation on Enzyme Properties of Serratia marcescens Chitinase C. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2015; 175:3617-27. [DOI: 10.1007/s12010-015-1530-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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N-Terminal Region of Chitinase I ofBacillus circulansKA-304 Contained New Chitin-Biding Domain. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2014; 75:299-304. [DOI: 10.1271/bbb.100659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Suma K, Podile AR. Chitinase A from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia shows transglycosylation and antifungal activities. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2013; 133:213-20. [PMID: 23428818 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.01.103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2012] [Revised: 01/13/2013] [Accepted: 01/17/2013] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Stenotrophomonas maltophilia chitinase (StmChiA and StmChiB) genes were cloned and expressed as soluble proteins of 70.5 and 41.6 kDa in Escherichia coli. Ni-NTA affinity purified StmChiA and StmChiB were optimally active at pH 5.0 and 7.0, respectively and exhibited broad range pH activity. StmChiA and StmChiB had an optimum temperature of 40°C and are stable up to 50 and 40°C, respectively. Hydrolytic activity on chitooligosaccharides indicated that StmChiA was an endo-acting enzyme releasing chitobiose and StmChiB was both exo/endo-acting enzyme with the release of GlcNAc as the final product. StmChiA showed higher preference to β-chitin and exhibited transglycosylation on even chain length tetra- and hexameric substrates. StmChiA, and not StmChiB, was active on chitinous polymers and showed antifungal activity against Fusarium oxysporum.
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- Katta Suma
- Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India
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Manjeet K, Purushotham P, Neeraja C, Podile AR. Bacterial chitin binding proteins show differential substrate binding and synergy with chitinases. Microbiol Res 2013; 168:461-8. [PMID: 23480960 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2013.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2012] [Revised: 12/22/2012] [Accepted: 01/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Glycosyl hydrolase (GH) family 18 chitinases (Chi) and family 33 chitin binding proteins (CBPs) from Bacillus thuringiensis serovar kurstaki (BtChi and BtCBP), B. licheniformis DSM13 (BliChi and BliCBP) and Serratia proteamaculans 568 (SpChiB and SpCBP21) were used to study the efficiency and synergistic action of BtChi, BliChi and SpChiB individually with BtCBP, BliCBP or SpCBP21. Chitinase assay revealed that only BtChi and SpChiB showed synergism in hydrolysis of chitin, while there was no increase in products generated by BliChi, in the presence of the three above mentioned CBPs. This suggests that some (specific) CBPs are able to exert a synergistic effect on (specific) chitinases. A mutant of BliChi, designated as BliGH, was constructed by deleting the C-terminal fibronectin III (FnIII) and carbohydrate binding module 5 (CBM5) to assess the contribution of FnIII and CBM5 domains in the synergistic interactions of GH18 chitinases with CBPs. Chitinase assay with BliGH revealed that the accessory domains play a major role in making BliChi an efficient enzyme. We studied binding of BtCBP and BliCBP to α- and β-chitin. The BtCBP, BliCBP or SpCBP21 did not act synergistically with chitinases in hydrolysis of the chitin, interspersed with other polymers, present in fungal cell walls.
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- Kaur Manjeet
- Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Kudan S, Kuttiyawong K, Pichyangkura R. Carboxy-terminus truncations of Bacillus licheniformis SK-1 CHI72 with distinct substrate specificity. BMB Rep 2011; 44:375-80. [PMID: 21699749 DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2011.44.6.375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Bacillus licheniformis SK-1 naturally produces chitinase 72 (CHI72) with two truncation derivatives at the C-terminus, one with deletion of the chitin binding domain (ChBD), and the other with deletions of both fibronectin type III domain (FnIIID) and ChBD. We constructed deletions mutants of CHI72 with deletion of ChBD (CHI72ΔChBD) and deletions of both FnIIID and ChBD (CHI72ΔFnIIIDΔChBD), and studied their activity on soluble, amorphous and crystalline substrates. Interestingly, when equivalent amount of specific activity of each enzyme on soluble substrate was used, the product yield from CHI72- ΔChBD and CHI72ΔFnIIIDΔChBD on colloidal chitin was 2.5 and 1.6 fold higher than CHI72, respectively. In contrast, the product yield from CHI72ΔChBD and CHI72ΔFnIIID- ΔChBD on Β-chitin reduced to 0.7 and 0.5 fold of CHI72, respectively. These results suggest that CHI72 can modulate its substrate specificities through truncations of the functional domains at the C-terminus, producing a mixture of enzymes with elevated efficiency of hydrolysis.
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- Sanya Kudan
- Biotechnology Program, Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
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Characterization of a novel Salmonella Typhimurium chitinase which hydrolyzes chitin, chitooligosaccharides and an N-acetyllactosamine conjugate. Glycobiology 2010; 21:426-36. [DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwq174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Molecular characterization of an endochitinase from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. konkukian. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s11274-010-0401-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Zeng X, Xiao X, Wang F. Response of bacteria in the deep-sea sediments and the Antarctic soils to carbohydrates: effects on ectoenzyme activity and bacterial community. J Environ Sci (China) 2010; 22:1779-1785. [PMID: 21235167 DOI: 10.1016/s1001-0742(09)60319-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The response of bacteria to various carbohydrates in the deep-sea sediments and the Antarctic soils was investigated using cellulose, chitin, and olive oil. It was found that the carbohydrates significantly increased the corresponding specific ectoenzyme activity (beta-glucosidase, beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase, lipase) in the samples from deep-sea sediments. In the case of Antarctic soil samples, the cellulose or olive oil amendments had minor or no effect on beta-glucosidase or lipase activity, except the chitin which stimulated beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase production. The responses of the bacteria in the deep-sea sediment sample WP02-3 and the Antarctic soil sample CC-TY2 towards the chitin amendment were further analyzed. Chitin amendments were shown to stimulate the ectoenzyme activity in all the tested sediments and the soils. The bacterial response before and after the carbohydrates amendments were compared by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and quantitative competitive polymerase chain reaction. Significant changes were found in the structure and density of the bacterial community in the deep sea sediments as compared to the Antarctic soil sample, where the effects were relatively lower. There was no change in the bacterial population in both studied samples in response to carbohydrates amendments. These data indicate that the bacterial communities in the oligotrophic deep-sea sediments are more dynamic than that in the Antarctic soils as they respond to the nutrient sources efficiently by regulation of ectoenzyme activity and/or changing community structure.
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- Xiang Zeng
- School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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Mehmood MA, Xiao X, Hafeez FY, Gai Y, Wang F. Purification and characterization of a chitinase from Serratia proteamaculans. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s11274-009-0094-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Leisner JJ, Larsen MH, Ingmer H, Petersen BO, Duus JØ, Palcic MM. Cloning and comparison of phylogenetically related chitinases from Listeria monocytogenes EGD and Enterococcus faecalis V583. J Appl Microbiol 2009; 107:2080-7. [PMID: 19583793 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2009.04420.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIMS To compare enzymatic activities of two related chitinases, ChiA and EF0361, encoded by Listeria monocytogenes and Enterococcus faecalis, respectively. METHODS AND RESULTS The chiA and EF0361 genes were amplified by PCR, cloned and expressed with histidine tags, allowing easy purification of the gene products. ChiA had a molecular weight as predicted from the amino acid sequence, whereas EF0361 was 1840 Da lower than expected because of C-terminal truncation. The ChiA and EF0361 enzymes showed activity towards 4-nitrophenyl N,N'-diacetyl-beta-D-chitobioside with K(m) values of 1.6 and 2.1 mmol l(-1), respectively, and k(cat) values of 21.6 and 6.5 s(-1). The enzymes also showed activity towards 4-nitrophenyl beta-D-N, N', N''-triacetylchitotriose and carboxy-methyl-chitin-Remazol Brilliant Violet but not towards 4-nitrophenyl N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminide. Chitinolytic specificities of the enzymes were supported by their inactivity towards the substrates 4-nitrophenyl beta-D-cellobioside and peptidoglycan. The pH and temperature profiles for catalytic activities were relatively similar for both the enzymes. CONCLUSION The ChiA and EF0361 enzymes show a high degree of similarity in their catalytic activities although their hosts share environmental preferences only to some extent. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY This study contributes to an understanding of the chitinolytic activities by L. monocytogenes and Ent. faecalis. Detailed information on their chitinolytic systems will help define potential reservoirs in the natural environment and possible transmission routes into food-manufacturing plants.
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- J J Leisner
- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
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Effects of C-terminal amino acids truncation on enzyme properties of Aeromonas caviae D1 chitinase. Arch Microbiol 2008; 191:265-73. [DOI: 10.1007/s00203-008-0451-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2008] [Revised: 11/24/2008] [Accepted: 11/28/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Chuang HH, Lin HY, Lin FP. Biochemical characteristics of C-terminal region of recombinant chitinase from Bacillus licheniformis: implication of necessity for enzyme properties. FEBS J 2008; 275:2240-54. [PMID: 18397326 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06376.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The functional and structural significance of the C-terminal region of Bacillus licheniformis chitinase was explored using C-terminal truncation mutagenesis. Comparative studies between full-length and truncated mutant molecules included initial rate kinetics, fluorescence and CD spectrometric properties, substrate binding and hydrolysis abilities, thermostability, and thermodenaturation kinetics. Kinetic analyses revealed that the overall catalytic efficiency, k(cat)/K(m), was slightly increased for the truncated enzymes toward the soluble 4-methylumbelliferyl-N-N'-diacetyl chitobiose or 4-methylumbelliferyl-N-N''-N'''-triacetyl chitotriose or insoluble alpha-chitin substrate. By contrast, changes to substrate affinity, K(m), and turnover rate, k(cat), varied considerably for both types of chitin substrates between the full-length and truncated enzymes. Both truncated enzymes exhibited significantly higher thermostabilities than the full-length enzyme. The truncated mutants retained similar substrate-binding specificities and abilities against the insoluble substrate but only had approximately 75% of the hydrolyzing efficiency of the full-length chitinase molecule. Fluorescence spectroscopy indicated that both C-terminal deletion mutants retained an active folding conformation similar to the full-length enzyme. However, a CD melting unfolding study was able to distinguish between the full-length and truncated mutant molecules by the two phases of apparent transition temperatures in the mutants. These results indicate that up to 145 amino acid residues, including the putative C-terminal chitin-binding region and the fibronectin (III) motif of B. licheniformis chitinase, could be removed without causing a seriously aberrant change in structure and a dramatic decrease in insoluble chitin hydrolysis. The results of the present study provide evidence demonstrating that the binding and hydrolyzing of insoluble chitin substrate for B. licheniformis chitinase was not dependent solely on the putative C-terminal chitin-binding region and the fibronectin (III) motif.
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- Hsu-Han Chuang
- Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan
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Li Q, Xiao X, Wang F. Screening of genes involved in chitinase production in Aeromonas caviae CB101 via transposon mutagenesis. J Appl Microbiol 2007; 102:640-9. [PMID: 17309612 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2006.03132.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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AIMS To find genes involved in chitinase production in chitinolytic bacterium Aeromonas caviae CB101. METHODS AND RESULTS By transposome mutagenesis, a high-quality mutant library containing around 20,000 insertion mutants was constructed in A. caviae CB101. Mutants with higher, lower and delayed chitinase-producing abilities were identified and analysed further. Genomic sequences flanking the insertion sites of these mutants were amplified by thermal asymmetric interlaced-PCR, cloned and sequenced. The mutated genes involved in chitinase production and/or secretion in CB101 include (i) nagA and nagB gene homologues that are related to the metabolism of the chitin digestion product GlcNAc; (ii) ftsX and exeL gene homologues that are related to transport or secretion systems; (iii) varA and rpoH gene homologues that are related to transcriptional regulator sequences; (iv) other genes with unknown functions. CONCLUSIONS Transposome mutagenesis is an efficient method to identify genes involved in the chitinase production in CB101. Chitinase production in CB101 is a complex system, and genes with various functions were identified in this study. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY Understanding regulation of chitinase production in CB101 would make molecular engineering of the bacterium for higher enzyme production possible.
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- Q Li
- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, China
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Chuang HH, Lin FP. New role of C-terminal 30 amino acids on the insoluble chitin hydrolysis in actively engineered chitinase from Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2007; 76:123-33. [PMID: 17508209 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-007-0990-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2007] [Revised: 04/05/2007] [Accepted: 04/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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A chitinase (VpChiA) and its C-terminal truncated G589 mutant (VpChiAG589) of Vibrio parahaemolyticus were cloned by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques. To study the role of the C-terminal 30 amino acids of VpChiA in the enzymatic hydrolysis of chitin, both the recombinant VpChiA and VpChiAG589 encoded in 1,881 and 1,791 bp DNA fragments, respectively, were expressed in Escherichia coli using the pET-20b(+) expression system. The His-Tag affinity purified VpChiA and VpChiAG589 enzymes had a calculated molecular mass of 65,713 and 62,723 Da, respectively. The results of biochemical characterization including kinetic parameters, spectroscopy of fluorescence and circular dichroism, chitin-binding and hydrolysis, and thermostability, both VpChiA and VpChiAG589, had very similar physicochemical properties such as the optimum pH (6), temperature (40 degrees C), and kinetic parameters of Km and kcat against the 4MU-(GlcNAc)(2) or 4MU-(GlcNAc)(3) soluble substrates. The significant increase of thermostability and the drastic decrease of the hydrolyzing ability of VpChiAG589 toward the insoluble alpha-chitin substrate suggested that a new role could be played by the C-terminal 30 amino acids.
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- Hsu-Han Chuang
- Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan
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Lan X, Zhang X, Hu J, Shimosaka M. Cloning, expression, and characterization of a chitinase from the chitinolytic bacterium Aeromonas hydrophila strain SUWA-9. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2006; 70:2437-42. [PMID: 17031053 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.60169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The chitinolytic bacterium Aeromonas hydrophila strain SUWA-9, which was isolated from freshwater in Lake Suwa (Nagano Prefecture, Japan), produced several kinds of chitin-degrading enzymes. A gene coding for an endo-type chitinase (chiA) was isolated from SUWA-9. The chiA ORF encodes a polypeptide of 865 amino acid residues with a molecular mass of 91.6 kDa. The deduced amino acid sequence showed high similarity to those of bacterial chitinases classified into family 18 of glycosyl hydrolases. chiA was expressed in Escherichia coli and the recombinant chitinase (ChiA) was purified and examined. The enzyme hydrolyzed N-acetylchitooligomers from trimer to pentamer and produced monomer and dimer as a final product. It also reacted toward colloidal chitin and chitosan with a low degree of deacetylation. When cells of SUWA-9 were grown in the presence of colloidal chitin, a 60 kDa-truncated form of ChiA that had lost the C-terminal chitin-binding domain was secreted.
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- Xiqian Lan
- Department of Applied Biology, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Japan
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Aronson NN, Halloran BA, Alexeyev MF, Zhou XE, Wang Y, Meehan EJ, Chen L. Mutation of a conserved tryptophan in the chitin-binding cleft of Serratia marcescens chitinase A enhances transglycosylation. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2006; 70:243-51. [PMID: 16428843 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.70.243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Family 18 chitinases have the signature peptide DGXDXDXE forming the fourth beta-strand in the (beta/alpha)8-barrel of their catalytic domain. The carboxyl-end glutamic acid, E315 in Serratia marcescens chitinase A, serves as the acid/base during chitin hydrolysis, and the side-chain of the preceding aspartic acid, D313, helps to position correctly the N-acetyl moiety of the glycosyl sugar undergoing hydrolysis. Chitin substrates are bound within a long cleft across the top of the barrel, whose floor consists of aromatic residues that hydrophobically stack with every other GlcNAc. Alanine substitution of the conserved Trp167 at the -3 subsite in Serratia marcescens chitinase A enhanced transglycosylation. Higher oligosaccharides were formed from both chitin tetra- and pentasaccharide, and the only hydrolytic product from chitin trisaccharide was the disaccharide. Greater retention of the glycosyl fragment at the active site of the -3 mutant of Serratia marcescens chitinase A might favor transglycosylation due to a stabilized conformation of its D313.
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- Nathan N Aronson
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of South Alabama, AL 36688, USA.
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Lin J, Xiao X, Zeng X, Wang F. Expression, characterization and mutagenesis of the gene encoding β-N-acetylglucosaminidase from Aeromonas caviae CB101. Enzyme Microb Technol 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2005.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Li Q, Wang F, Zhou Y, Xiao X. Putative exposed aromatic and hydroxyl residues on the surface of the N-terminal domains of Chi1 from Aeromonas caviae CB101 are essential for chitin binding and hydrolysis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2005; 71:7559-61. [PMID: 16269803 PMCID: PMC1287697 DOI: 10.1128/aem.71.11.7559-7561.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Chitinase Chi1 of Aeromonas caviae CB101 possesses chitin binding sites at both its N and C termini. Four putative exposed residues aligned in a line on the surface of the N-terminal domains of Chi1 were found to contribute to the enzyme-chitin binding and hydrolysis via site-directed mutagenesis. Also, it was found that Chi1 requires the cooperation of the N- and C-terminal domains to bind fully with crystalline and colloidal chitin.
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- Qiang Li
- School of Life Science, Xiamen University, People's Republic of China
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