A Highly N-Glycosylated Chitin Deacetylase Derived from a Novel Strain of Mortierella sp. DY-52

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Chitin deacetylase (CDA), the enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of acetamido groups of GlcNAc in chitin, was purified from culture filtrate of the fungus Mortierella sp. DY-52 and characterized. The extracellular enzyme is likely to be a highly N-glycosylated protein with a pI of 4.2–4.8. Its apparent molecular weight was determined to be about 52 kDa by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS–PAGE) and 67 kDa by size-exclusion chromatography. The enzyme had an optimum pH of 6.0 and an optimum temperature of 60 °C. Enzyme activity was slightly inhibited by 1–10 mM Co2+ and strongly inhibited by 10 mM Cu2+. It required at least two GlcNAc residues for catalysis. When (GlcNAc)6 was used as substrate, Km and Vmax were determined to be 1.1 mM and 54.6 μmol min−1 respectively.
2011-05-23