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Devi S, Sharma B, Kumar R, Singh Kanwar S. Purification, characterization, and biological cytotoxic activity of the extracellular cholesterol oxidase produced by Castellaniella sp. COX. J Basic Microbiol 2019; 60:253-267. [PMID: 31750957 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201900365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2019] [Revised: 11/08/2019] [Accepted: 11/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A new bacterial strain producing extracellular cholesterol oxidase (ChOx) was isolated and identified as Castellaniella sp. COX. The ChOx was purified by salting-out and ion-exchange chromatography up to 10.4-fold, with a specific activity of 15 U/mg with a molecular mass of 59 kDa. The purified ChOx exhibited pH 8.0 and temperature 40°C for its optimum activity. The enzyme showed stability over a wide pH range and was most stable at pH value 7.0, and at pH 8.0, it retained almost 86% of its initial activity after 3 h of incubation at 37°C. The enzyme possessed a half-life of 8 h at 37°C, 7 h at 40°C, and 3 h at 50°C. A Lineweaver-Burk plot was calibrated to determine its Km (0.16 mM) and Vmax (18.7 μmol·mg-1 ·min-1 ). The ChOx activity was enhanced with Ca2+ , Mg2+ , and Mn2+ while it was inhibited by Hg2+ , Ba2+ , Fe2+ , Cu2+ , and Zn2+ ions. Organic solvents like acetone, n-butanol, toluene, dimethyl sulfoxide, chloroform, benzene, and methanol were well tolerated by the enzyme while iso-propanol and ethanol were found to enhance the activity of purified ChOx. ChOx induced cytotoxicity with an IC50 value of 1.78 and 1.88 U/ml against human RD and U87MG established cell lines, respectively, while broadly sparing the normal human cells.
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- Sunita Devi
- Department of Biotechnology, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Kamala K, Sivaperumal P. Biomedical Applications of Enzymes From Marine Actinobacteria. ADVANCES IN FOOD AND NUTRITION RESEARCH 2016; 80:107-123. [PMID: 28215321 DOI: 10.1016/bs.afnr.2016.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Marine microbial enzyme technologies have progressed significantly in the last few decades for different applications. Among the various microorganisms, marine actinobacterial enzymes have significant active properties, which could allow them to be biocatalysts with tremendous bioactive metabolites. Moreover, marine actinobacteria have been considered as biofactories, since their enzymes fulfill biomedical and industrial needs. In this chapter, the marine actinobacteria and their enzymes' uses in biological activities and biomedical applications are described.
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- K Kamala
- Center for Environmental Nuclear Research, Directorate of Research, SRM University, Kattankulathur, India.
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- Center for Environmental Nuclear Research, Directorate of Research, SRM University, Kattankulathur, India
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Ivashina TV, Nikolayeva VM, Dovbnya DV, Donova MV. Cholesterol oxidase ChoD is not a critical enzyme accounting for oxidation of sterols to 3-keto-4-ene steroids in fast-growing Mycobacterium sp. VKM Ac-1815D. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2012; 129:47-53. [PMID: 22015543 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2011.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2011] [Revised: 09/14/2011] [Accepted: 09/25/2011] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Fast-growing strain of Mycobacterium sp. VKM Ac-1815D is capable of effective oxidizing of sterols (phytosterol, cholesterol, ergosterol) to androstenedione and other valuable 3-oxo-steroids. To elucidate the role of cholesterol oxidase in sterol catabolism by the strain, the choD gene has been cloned and sequenced. The deduced gene product (M(r) 63.5kDa) showed homologies over its entire length to a large number of proteins belonging to the InterPro-family EPR006076, which includes various FAD dependent oxidoreductases. The expression of choD in Escherichia coli was shown to result in the synthesis of membrane associated cholesterol oxidase. In addition to cholesterol, the enzyme oxidized β-sitosterol, dehydroepiandrosterone, ergosterol, pregnenolone, and lithocholic acid. Knock-out of choD in Mycobacterium sp. VKM Ac-1815D strain was obtained by the gene replacement technique. The mutant strain transformed sitosterol forming exclusively 3-keto-4-ene steroids with androstenedione as a major product, thus evidencing that choD knock out did not abrogate sterol A-ring oxidation. The results indicated that ChoD is not a critical enzyme responsible for modification of 3β-hydroxy-5-ene- to 3-keto-4-ene steroids in Mycobacterium sp. VKM Ac-1815D. Article from a special issue on steroids and microorganisms.
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- Tatyana V Ivashina
- G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Region, Russia
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Cholesterol oxidase is a bacterial-specific flavoenzyme that catalyzes the oxidation and isomerisation of steroids containing a 3beta hydroxyl group and a double bond at the Delta5-6 of the steroid ring system. The enzyme is a member of a large family of flavin-specific oxidoreductases and is found in two different forms: one where the flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) cofactor is covalently linked to the protein and one where the cofactor is non-covalently bound to the protein. These two enzyme forms have been extensively studied in order to gain insight into the mechanism of flavin-mediated oxidation and the relationship between protein structure and enzyme redox potential. More recently the enzyme has been found to play an important role in bacterial pathogenesis and hence further studies are focused on its potential use for future development of novel antibacterial therapeutic agents. In this review the biochemical, structural, kinetic and mechanistic features of the enzyme are discussed.
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Grishko VV, Nogovitsyna EM, Ivshina IB. The biocatalytic obtainment of physiologically active compounds based on vegetative β-sitosterol. CATALYSIS IN INDUSTRY 2009. [DOI: 10.1134/s2070050409020123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Doukyu N. Characteristics and biotechnological applications of microbial cholesterol oxidases. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2009; 83:825-37. [PMID: 19495743 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-009-2059-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2009] [Revised: 05/22/2009] [Accepted: 05/23/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Microbial cholesterol oxidase is an enzyme of great commercial value, widely employed by laboratories routinely devoted to the determination of cholesterol concentrations in serum, other clinical samples, and food. In addition, the enzyme has potential applications as a biocatalyst which can be used as an insecticide and for the bioconversion of a number of sterols and non-steroidal alcohols. The enzyme has several biological roles, which are implicated in the cholesterol metabolism, the bacterial pathogenesis, and the biosynthesis of macrolide antifungal antibiotics. Cholesterol oxidase has been reported from a variety of microorganisms, mostly from actinomycetes. We recently reported cholesterol oxidases from gram-negative bacteria such as Burkholderia and Chromobacterium. These enzymes possess thermal, detergent, and organic solvent tolerance. There are two forms of cholesterol oxidase, one containing a flavin adenine dinucleotide cofactor non-covalently bound to the enzyme (class I) and the other containing the cofactor covalently linked to the enzyme (class II). These two enzymes have no significant sequence homology. The phylogenetic tree analyses show that both class I and class II enzymes can be further divided into at least two groups.
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- Noriyuki Doukyu
- Bio-Nano Electronic Research Center, Toyo University, Kujirai, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan.
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Aparicio JF, Martín JF. Microbial cholesterol oxidases: bioconversion enzymes or signal proteins? MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2008; 4:804-9. [DOI: 10.1039/b717500k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Brzostek A, Dziadek B, Rumijowska-Galewicz A, Pawelczyk J, Dziadek J. Cholesterol oxidase is required for virulence ofMycobacterium tuberculosis. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2007; 275:106-12. [PMID: 17651430 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00865.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Recent reports have indicated that cholesterol plays a crucial role during the uptake of mycobacteria by macrophages. However, the significance of cholesterol modification enzymes encoded by Mycobacterium tuberculosis for bacterial pathogenicity remains unknown. Here, the authors explored whether the well-known cholesterol modification enzyme, cholesterol oxidase (ChoD), is important for virulence of the tubercle bacillus. Homologous recombination was used to replace the choD gene from the M. tuberculosis genome with a nonfunctional copy. The resultant mutant (delta choD) was attenuated in peritoneal macrophages. No attenuation in macrophages was observed when the same strain was complemented with an intact choD gene controlled by a heat shock promoter (delta choDP(hsp)choD). The mice infection experiments confirm the significance of ChoD in the pathogenesis of M. tuberculosis.
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- Anna Brzostek
- Centre of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland
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Brzostek A, Śliwiński T, Rumijowska-Galewicz A, Korycka-Machała M, Dziadek J. Identification and targeted disruption of the gene encoding the main 3-ketosteroid dehydrogenase in Mycobacterium smegmatis. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2005; 151:2393-2402. [PMID: 16000729 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27953-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The catabolic potential for sterol degradation of fast-growing mycobacteria is well known. However, no genes or enzymes responsible for the steroid degradation process have been identified as yet in these species. One of the key enzymes required for degradation of the steroid ring structure is 3-ketosteroid Delta(1)-dehydrogenase (KsdD). The recent annotation of the Mycobacterium smegmatis genome (TIGR database) revealed six KsdD homologues. Targeted disruption of the MSMEG5898 (ksdD-1) gene, but not the MSMEG4855 (ksdD-2) gene, resulted in partial inactivation of the cholesterol degradation pathway and accumulation of the intermediate 4-androstene-3,17-dione. This effect was reversible by the introduction of the wild-type ksdD-1 gene into M. smegmatis DeltaksdD-1 or overexpression of ksdD-2. The data indicate that KsdD1 is the main KsdD in M. smegmatis, but that KsdD2 is able to perform the cholesterol degradation process when overproduced.
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- Anna Brzostek
- Medical Biology Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodowa 106, 93-232 Łodz, Poland
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- Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Technical University of Łodz, Wolczanska 171/173, 90-924 Łodz, Poland
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- Medical Biology Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodowa 106, 93-232 Łodz, Poland
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Murooka Y, Yamashita M. Genetic and protein engineering of diagnostic enzymes, cholesterol oxidase and xylitol oxidase. J Biosci Bioeng 2005; 91:433-41. [PMID: 16233019 DOI: 10.1263/jbb.91.433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2001] [Accepted: 02/23/2001] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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For a long time, clinical diagnosis has been made mainly using chemical methods. Recently, several excellent substrate-specific enzymes have been developed and these enzymes are used as diagnostic catalysts. Using enzymes, it is possible to assay for a specific substance from specimens of serum or urine without the need for isolation of the substance which simplifies the process and shortens the assay time. Furthermore, the use of enzymatic assay methods for diagnosis has been facilitated by the developments in genetic engineering which made it possible to overproduce enzymes inexpensively. Here, we review the diagnostic enzymes, cholesterol oxidase and xylitol oxidase, which were successfully overproduced in our laboratory. In particular, the catalytic activity and pH and thermal stabilities of cholesterol oxidase were improved.
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- Y Murooka
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
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Donova MV, Nikolaeva VM, Egorova OV. Enzymes Involved in Modification of the Steroid Nucleus of Industrial Mycobacterial Strains: Isolation, Functions, and Properties. APPL BIOCHEM MICRO+ 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/s10438-005-0080-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Nikolayeva VM, Egorova OV, Dovbnya DV, Donova MV. Extracellular 3beta-hydroxysteroid oxidase of Mycobacterium vaccae VKM Ac-1815D. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2004; 91:79-85. [PMID: 15261310 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2004.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2003] [Accepted: 01/20/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Extracellular 3beta-hydroxysteroid oxidase (SO) has been isolated from cell-free cultivation broth at the growth of Mycobacterium vaccae VKM Ac-1815D on glycerol-mineral medium in the presence of sitosterol. The enzyme is responsible for the transformation of 3beta-hydroxy-5-ene- to 3-keto-4-ene-moiety of steroids including dehydrogenation of 3beta-hydroxy function followed by delta5-->delta4 isomerization. 6-Hydroxy-4-sitosten-3-one and 6-hydroxy-4-androsten-3,17-dione were revealed among the metabolites at the incubation of the enzyme preparations with sitosterol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), respectively. The enzyme was strongly NADH or NADPH dependent. SO has been purified over 300-fold using cultivation broth concentration on hollow fibers followed by fractionation by ammonium sulphate, column chromatography on DEAE-Toyopearl, hydroxyapatite Bio-Gel HTP and double gel-filtration on Bio-Gel A 0.5 M. SDS-electrophoresis gave a molecular mass estimate of 62 +/- 4 kDa. The purified SO obeyed Michaelis-Menten kinetics, double reciprocal plots kinetics revealed Km value towards DHEA 5 x 10(-4) M. Along with SO activity, 17-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17-OH SDH) and 3-ketosteroid-1(2)-dehydrogenase (1(2)-SDH) activities were detected in cell-free cultivation broth. The extracellular steroid transforming activities of C-17-ketosteroid producing mycobacteria were hitherto unreported.
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- V M Nikolayeva
- Laboratory of Microbial Transformation of Organic Compounds, GK Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region
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Murooka Y, Yamashita M. Genetic and protein engineering of diagnostic enzymes, cholesterol oxidase and xylitol oxidase. J Biosci Bioeng 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s1389-1723(01)80270-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Av-Gay Y, Sobouti R. Cholesterol is accumulated by mycobacteria but its degradation is limited to non-pathogenic fast-growing mycobacteria. Can J Microbiol 2000. [DOI: 10.1139/w00-060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In this report we show that fast-growing non-pathogenic mycobacteria degrade cholesterol from liquid media, and are able to grow on cholesterol as a sole carbon source. In contrast, slow-growing mycobacteria, including pathogenic Mycobacterium tuberculosis and bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), do not degrade and use cholesterol as a carbon source. Nevertheless, pathogenic mycobacteria are able to uptake, modify, and accumulate cholesterol from liquid growth media, and form a zone of clearance around a colony when plated on solid media containing cholesterol. These data suggest that cholesterol may have a role in mycobacterial infection other than its use as carbon source.Key words: mycobacteria, cholesterol, biodegradation.
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MacLachlan J, Wotherspoon AT, Ansell RO, Brooks CJ. Cholesterol oxidase: sources, physical properties and analytical applications. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2000; 72:169-95. [PMID: 10822008 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-0760(00)00044-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Since Flegg (H.M. Flegg, An investigation of the determination of serum cholesterol by an enzymatic method, Ann. Clin. Biochem. 10 (1973) 79-84) and Richmond (W. Richmond, The development of an enzymatic technique for the assay of cholesterol in biological fluids, Scand. J. clin. Lab. Invest. 29 (1972) 25; W. Richmond, Preparation and properties of a bacterial cholesterol oxidase from Nocardia sp. and its application to enzyme assay of total cholesterol in serum, Clinical Chemistry 19 (1973) 1350-1356) first illustrated the suitability of cholesterol oxidase (COD) for the analysis of serum cholesterol, COD has risen to become the most widely used enzyme in clinical laboratories with the exception of glucose oxidase (GOD). The use is widespread because assays incorporating the enzyme are extremely simple, specific, and highly sensitive and thus offer distinct advantages over the Liebermann-Burchard analytical methodologies which employ corrosive reagents and can be prone to unreliable results due to interfering substances such as bilirubin. Individuals can now readily determine their own serum cholesterol levels with a simple disposable test kit. This review discusses COD in some detail and includes the topics: (1) The variety of bacterial sources available; (2) The various extraction/purification protocols utilised in order to obtain protein of sufficient clarification (purity) for use in food/clinical analysis; (3) Significant differences in the properties of the individual enzymes; (4) Substrate specificities of the various enzymes; (5) Examples of biological assays which have employed cholesterol oxidase as an integral part of the analysis, and the various assay protocols; (6) New steroidal products of COD. This review is not a comprehensive description of published work, but is intended to provide an account of recent and current research, and should promote further interest in the application of enzymes to analytical selectivity.
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- J MacLachlan
- Department of Physical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, City Campus, 70 Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, UK.
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Salva TJ, Liserre AM, Moretto AL, Zullo MA, Ventrucci G, Menezes TJ. Some enzymatic properties of cholesterol oxidase produced by Brevibacterium sp. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1590/s0001-37141999000400005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In this study we determined some properties of the cholesterol oxidase from a Brevibacterium strain isolated from buffalo's milk and identified the cholesterol degradation products by the bacterial cell. A small fraction of the enzyme synthesized by cells cultured in liquid medium for 7days was released into the medium whereas a larger fraction remained bound to the cell membrane. The extraction of this fraction was efficiently accomplished in 1 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, containing 0.7% Triton X-100. The enzyme stability under freezing and at 45oC was improved by addition of 20% glycerol. The optimum temperature and pH for the enzyme activity were 53°C and 7.5, respectively. The only steroidal product from cholesterol oxidation by the microbial cell and by the crude extract of the membrane-bound enzyme was 4-colesten-3-one. Chromatographic analysis showed that minor no steroidal compounds as well as 4-colesten-3-one found in the reaction media arose during fermentation process and were extracted together with the enzyme in the buffer solution. Cholesterol oxidation by the membrane-bound enzyme was a first order reaction type.
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Leman J. Oleaginous microorganisms: an assessment of the potential. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY 1997; 43:195-243. [PMID: 9097415 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2164(08)70226-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- J Leman
- Institute of Food Biotechnology, University of Agriculture and Technology, Olsztyn, Poland
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