Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
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64 巻, 11 号
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Organic Chemistry Regular Papers
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  • Yoshinori FUJIMURA, Hirofumi TACHIBANA, Nozomu ETO, Koji YAMADA
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2298-2305
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
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      We cloned the variable regions of heavy and light chain genes of an anti-ovomucoid monoclonal antibody (MAb-OM21) produced by the mouse hybridoma cell line OM21. DNA sequence analysis showed that the light chain of the MAb-OM21 has only one potential N-glycosylation consensus sequence in the complementarity determining region 2 of the light chain. To find whether carbohydrate chains are located on the light chain, we assayed for the size of the light chain, after treatment with N-glycosidase, by western blotting, and also detection of the carbohydrate chains on the light chain was done using the lectin blot assay. A N-linked carbohydrate chain has been shown to bind to the light chain. To clarify the role of this carbohydrate chain in the light chain, we produced carbohydrate variant antibodies by N-deglycosylation using glycosidase or by expressing the antibody from different host cells. The N-deglycosylated variant antibody has greater antigen binding, and the antibody produced from the different host cells showed a reduced antigen binding activity and acquired the ability to react to ovalbumin. These results suggest that antigen binding of the ovomucoid specific antibody MAb-OM21 can be affected by the carbohydrate chain on the light chain variable region.
  • Hidetoshi AKIMOTO, Naoyuki KIYOTA, Takayuki KUSHIMA, Toyohiko NAKAMURA ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2328-2335
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
    ジャーナル フリー
      A genomic DNA segment and cDNAs encoding an extracellular endoinulinase of Penicillium sp. strain TN-88 were cloned and sequenced. Southern blot analysis indicated that the endoinulinase gene (inuC) was present as a single copy in the genome. An open reading frame, consisting of 1,545 bp, was not interrupted by introns, and it encoded a 25 amino acid signal peptide and a 490 amino acid mature protein. The mature protein contained three Cys residues and ten potential N-linked glycosylation sites. Three distinct transcriptional start points were observed at positions -242 (A), -215 (A), and -75 (C) from the start codon. The 5′-noncoding region had a putative TATA box at position -120 (TATATATA) and two contiguous CAAT sequences at -159 to -151. The deduced amino acid sequence showed 72 and 85% identities with those of Aspergillus niger and Penicillium purpurogenum endoinulinase genes, respectively. A neighbor-joining tree showed that fungal endoinulinases form a distinct cluster from other members of the β-fructofuranosidase superfamily and that they are more closely related to bacterial levanases than to a fungal fructosyltransferase, yeast invertases, or a yeast exoinulinase.
  • Hiroyuki INOUE, Kenji INAGAKI, Naoki ADACHI, Takashi TAMURA, Nobuyoshi ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2336-2343
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
    ジャーナル フリー
      L-Methionine γ-lyase from Pseudomonas putida has a conserved tyrosine residue (Tyr114) in the active site as in all known sequences of γ-family pyridoxal 5′-phosphate dependent enzymes. A mutant form of L-methionine γ-lyase in which Tyr114 was replaced by phenylalanine (Y114F) resulted in 910-fold decrease in kcat for α,γ-elimination of L-methionine, while the Km remained the same as the wild type enzyme. The Y114F mutant had the reduced kcat by only 28- and 16-fold for substrates with an electron-withdrawing group at the γ-position, namely O-acetyl-L-homoserine and L-methionine sulfone, respectively, and also the similar reduction of kcat for α,β-elimination and deamination substrates. The hydrogen exchange reactions of substrate and the spectral changes of the substrate-enzyme complex catalyzed by the mutant enzyme suggested that γ-elimination process for L-methionine is the rate-limiting determination step in α,γ-elimination overall reaction of the Y114F mutant. These results indicate that Tyr114 of L-methionine γ-lyase is important in γ-elimination of the substrate.
  • Shun'ichi SUZUKI, Yuko IZAWA, Katusnori KOBAYASHI, Yuzuru ETO, Shigeru ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2344-2351
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
    ジャーナル フリー
      Transglutaminase activity was detected in suspensions of purified spores prepared from lysozyme-treated sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis AJ 1307. The enzyme was easily solubilized from the spores upon incubation at pH 10.5 at 37°C. The transglutaminase activity was separated into two fractions upon purification by hydrophobic interaction chromatography (TG1 and TG2). Each enzyme was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity (about 1,000-fold). Both enzymes had the same molecular weight of 29,000 as estimated by SDS-PAGE, had the same N-terminal 30 amino acid sequence, and also showed the same optimal temperature (60°C) and pH (8.2). The purified enzyme catalyzed formation of cross-linked ε-(γ-glutamyl)lysine isopeptides, resulting in the gel-formation of protein solutions such as αs-casein and BSA.
  • Yukiko SUGIHARA, Shuzo YAMAGATA, Yasuko MIZUNO, Takayuki EZAKI
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2352-2359
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
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      O-Acetyl-L-serine sulfhydrylase (EC 4.2.99.8) activity was shown to be very high compared with O-acetyl-L-homoserine sulfhydrylase (EC 4.2.99.10) activity and L-cystathionine cleaving activities, in an extract of cells of an alkaliphilic bacterium grown in a synthetic medium. The synthesis of the first enzyme was repressed by approximately 55% by both L-cystine and L-djenkolic acid added to the medium at a concentration of 0.5 mM, but L-methionine (1 mM) and S-adenosyl-L-methionine (0.5 mM) affected it to lesser extents. Its enzyme activity was inhibited by 25% and 12% by methionine (10 mM) and S-adenosylmethionine (5 mM), respectively. The enzyme was purified from the extract through ammonium sulfate fractionation, heat treatment, and chromatography on columns of DEAE-cellulose, Sephacryl S-300, and Octyl Sepharose CL-4B with a recovery of 21%. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with sodium dodecylsulfate of the preparation obtained finally showed its homogeneity and the molecular mass of 37,000 Da for dissociated subunits. Gel filtration of the enzyme on a Sephacryl S-300 column showed an approximate molecular mass of 72,000 Da, suggesting that the enzyme was comprised of two identical subunits. The enzyme catalyzed the β-replacement reaction with O-acetylserine as a substrate, and showed no reactivity to other O-substituted amino acids tested. The reaction proceeded best at 40°C (when tested at pH 7.5), and at pH 6.5 (at 40°C). The enzyme kept 90% its activity after incubation at 65°C (at pH 7.5) for 30 min, and more than 90% after 30 min incubation at pHs 7-12 at 30°C. The enzyme had a Km of 4 mM for O-acetyl-L-serine and a Vmax of 37.0 μmol/min/mg of protein, a very low value compared with those of other organisms. However, the content of the enzyme in the extract was calculated to be approximately 3.5% total protein. Sensitivity of the enzyme to carbonyl reagents was very low, although it was shown to have pyridoxal 5′-phosphate as a cofactor by examination of its absorption spectrum. Sulfhydryl reagents tested showed no inhibition. The novelty of this enzyme among analogous sulfhydrylases purified from other organisms was discussed.
  • Sumio KITAHATA, Toshiko TANIMOTO, Yasuyo OKADA, Akiko IKUTA, Keiko TAN ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2406-2411
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
    ジャーナル フリー
      α-D-Mannosyl-maltotriose (Man-G3) were synthesized from methyl α-mannoside and maltotriose by the transfer action of α-mannosidase. (Man-G3)-βCD and (Man-G3)2-βCD were produced in about 20% and 4% yield, respectively when Aerobacter aerogenes pullulanase (160 units per 1 g of Man-G3) was incubated with the mixture of 1.6 M Man-G3 and 0.16 M βCD at 50°C for 4 days. The reaction products, (Man-G3)-βCD were separated to three peaks by HPLC analysis on a YMC-PACK A-323-3 column and (Man-G3)2-βCD were separated to several peaks by HPLC analysis on a Daisopak ODS column. The major product of (Man-G3)-βCDs was identified as 6-O-α-(63-O-α-D-mannosyl-maltotriosyl)-βCD by FAB-MS and NMR spectroscopies. The structures of (Man-G3)2-βCDs were analyzed by TOF-MS and NMR spectroscopies, and confirmed by comparison of elution profiles of their hydrolyzates by α-mannosidase and glucoamylase on a graphitized carbon column with those of the authentic di-glucosyl-βCDs. The structures of three main components of (Man-G3)2-βCDs were identified as 61,62-, 61,63- and 61,64-di-O-(63-O-α-D-mannosyl-maltotriosyl)-βCD.
  • Shin-ichiro KATO, Hisaaki MIHARA, Tatsuo KURIHARA, Tohru YOSHIMURA, No ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2412-2419
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
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      Iron-sulfur proteins are essential in the photosynthetic system and many other biological processes. We have isolated and characterized enzymes driving the formation of iron-sulfur clusters from Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. Two genes (slr0387 and sll0704), showing similarity to nifS of Azotobacter vinelandii, were cloned, and their gene products (SsCsd1 and SsCsd2) were purified. They catalyzed the desulfuration of L-cysteine. Reconstitution of a [2Fe-2S] cluster of cyanobacterial ferredoxin proceeded much faster in the presence of L-cysteine and either of these enzymes than when using sodium sulfide. These results suggest that SsCsd1 and SsCsd2 facilitate the iron-sulfur cluster assembly by producing inorganic sulfur from L-cysteine. Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 has no gene coding for a protein with similarity to the N-terminal domain of NifU of A. vinelandii, which is believed to cooperate with NifS to assemble iron-sulfur clusters. Thus, the cluster formation in the cyanobacterium probably proceeds through a mechanism that is different from that in A. vinelandii.
  • Eri CHATANI, Naoki TANIMIZU, Hiroshi UENO, Rikimaru HAYASHI
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2437-2444
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
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      A Pichia pastoris expression system for bovine pancreatic RNase A was constructed: the RNase A sequence was fused to the PHO1 signal and the AOX1 promoter was used for efficient secretion. Approximately 5 mg of soluble enzymes were secreted per liter of the culture, but one half of them were glycosylated. After a series of purifications by cation-exchange chromatography, the glycosylated enzyme was removed and the pure recombinant soluble unglycosylated RNase A was obtained in the final yield of 1 mg per liter of the culture. N-Terminal sequence, molecular weight, secondary structure, thermal stability, and activity were completely identical with those of commercial RNase A. Glycosylated RNase A had a decreased kcat, 60-70% of the activity of wild-type RNase A, as in the case of RNase B. Its carbohydrate moiety seemed to destabilize the enzyme differently from RNase B since Tm of the glycosylated RNase A was decreased by 6°C. The carbohydrate moiety of the glycosylated enzyme contained no GlcNAc. The N34A mutant RNase A, in which the only potential N-glycosylation site, Asn34, is mutated to alanine, was also glycosylated, implying that glycosylation is not N-linked but O-linked.
  • Hiroshi TSUJIBO, Takashi OKAMOTO, Naoya HATANO, Katsushiro MIYAMOTO, T ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2445-2453
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
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      Family 19 chitinase genes, chi35 and chi25 of Streptomyces thermoviolaceus OPC-520, were cloned and sequenced. The chi35 and chi25 genes were arranged in tandem and encoded deduced proteins of 39,762 and 28,734 Da, respectively. Alignment of the deduced amino acid sequences demonstrated that Chi35 has an N-terminal domain and a catalytic domain and that Chi25 is an enzyme consisting of only a catalytic domain. Amino acid sequences of the catalytic domains of both enzymes, which are highly similar to each other, suggested that these enzymes belong to the family 19 chitinases. The cloned Chi35 and Chi25 were purified from E. coli and S. lividans as a host, respectively. The optimum pH of Chi35 and Chi25 were 5-6, and the optimum temperature of Chi35 and Chi25 were 60 and 70°C, respectively. Chi35 bound to chitin, Avicel, and xylan. On the other hand, Chi25 bound to these polysaccharides more weakly than did Chi35. These results indicate that the N-terminal domain of Chi35 functions as a polysaccharide-binding domain. Furthermore, Chi35 showed more efficient hydrolysis of insoluble chitin and stronger antifungal activity than Chi25. In the polysaccharide-binding domain of Chi35, there are three reiterated amino acid sequences starting from C-L-D and ending with W, and the repeats were similar to xylanase (STX-I) from the same strain. However, the repeats did not show sequence similarity to any of the known chitin-binding domains and cellulose-binding domains.
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Notes
Food & Nutrition Science Regular Papers
  • Sang-Hee CHEON, Moon-Haeng HUH, Yoon-Bok LEE, Jeom-Seon PARK, Heon-Soo ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2290-2297
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
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      The effect of the dietary linoleate (LA)/alpha-linolenate (LNA) balance during development on the brain lipid composition, reproductive outcome and behavior of rats was studied. Female rats were fed on experimental diets during pregnancy and the resulting pups for 16 weeks. The dietary LA/LNA ratios were 1.07 (LA1), 2.64 (LA2), 4.45 (LA3), 7.68 (LA4) and 10.35 (LA5). The relative content of docosahexaenoate (DHA) in the brain of pups tended to increase with decreasing LA/LNA ratio at 0 and 3 weeks, while the level of DHA was maintained constant at 16 weeks regardless of the dietary LA/LNA ratio. The learning ability was measured at 12 weeks of age, and there was no difference among the groups. In an open field test, the exploratory index was significantly lower in the LA1 group than in the LA2 group. The LA1 group had a smaller litter size and lower survival rate than the other groups. We conclude that if the diet contained appropriate amounts and balance of LA and LNA, it was possible for rats to synthesize an appropriate amount of DHA and have normal behavioral activity without DHA supplementation.
  • Ritsuko MASUYAMA, Mariko UEHARA, Kazuharu SUZUKI
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2316-2319
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
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      To find whether a high phosphorus (P) diet stimulate the secretion of PTH, a high-P diet was fed to rats and an increase in serum P levels has occurred. All rats were fed a control diet (0.5% calcium (Ca), 0.5% P) for 7 days, while they were being adapted, for 1 hour at 8:00 AM and again at 8:00 PM. Four groups were switched to the high-P diet (0.5% Ca, 1.5% P) at the time of their morning meal for 1 hour. The other 4 groups continued to receive the control diet. Blood samples were collected from the rats in the remaining group, which served as a pre-feeding control. Every 30 minutes after the start of feeding (30, 60, 90, 120 min), blood samples were collected from the rats in the groups fed the control and high-P diets. Serum P concentrations increased upon intake of the high P diet, within 30 minutes after the start of feeding. Serum PTH levels also increased upon intake of the high P diet, within 30 minutes after the start of feeding, and the levels were significantly higher in the high-P group than in the control group. However, no significant difference was observed in serum Ca levels between the two groups. From these results, our findings suggest that an increase in serum P concentration might be a trigger of PTH secretion without any changes of serum calcium levels.
  • Mingzhou SUN, Hiroyuki SAKAKIBARA, Hitoshi ASHIDA, Gen-ichi DANNO, Kaz ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2395-2401
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
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      Carcinogenesis is believed to be induced through the oxidative damage of DNA, and antioxidants are expected to suppress it. So, the polyphenolic antioxidants in daily foods were investigated to see whether they protect against genetic damage by active oxygen. In the evaluation, we used a bioassay and a chemical determination, a Salmonella mutagenicity test for mutation by a N-hydroxyl radical from one of the dietary carcinogens 3-amino-1-methyl-5H-pyrido[4,3-b]indole and the formation of 8-hydroxyl (8-OHdG) from 2′-deoxyguanosine (2′-dG) in a Fenton OH-radical generating system. Thirty-one antioxidants including flavonoids were compared in terms of radical-trapping activity with bacterial DNA and 2′-dG. Antioxidants inhibited the mutation but the IC50 values were in the mM order. Against 8-OHdG formation, only α-tocopherol had a suppressive effect with an IC50 of 1.5 μM. Thus, except α-tocopherol, the dietary antioxidants did not scavenge the biological radicals faster than bacterial DNA and intact 2′-dG, indicating that they failed to prevent oxidative gene damage and probably carcinogenesis.
Food & Nutrition Science Notes
Microbiology & Fermentation Technology Regular Papers
  • Yoshihiro HAKAMADA, Yuji HATADA, Kenzo KOIKE, Tadashi YOSHIMATSU, Shuj ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2281-2289
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
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      Alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. strain KSM-S237 (a relative of Bacillus pseudofirmus) produces a thermostable, alkaline endo-1,4-β-glucanase (Egl). The entire gene for the enzyme harbored a 2,472-bp open reading frame (ORF) encoding 824 amino acids, including a 30-amino-acid signal peptide. The deduced amino acid sequence of the mature enzyme (794 amino acids, 88,284 Da) showed very high similarity to those of family 5 mesophilic, alkaline Egls from some alkaliphilic bacilli. The enzyme had a region similar to a novel cellulose binding domain proposed for an Egl (EngF) from Clostridium cellulovorans. Expression of the Bacillus Egl gene in Bacillus subtilis resulted in high carboxymethy cellulase activity (2.0 g/l) in the culture broth, concomitant with the appearance of a protein band on an SDS gel at 86 kDa. Site-directed mutagenesis delineated the importance of Arg111, His151, Glu190, His262, Tyr264, and Glu305 in catalysis and/or substrate binding of the enzyme.
  • Duangtip MOONMANGMEE, Osao ADACHI, Yoshitaka ANO, Emiko SHINAGAWA, Hir ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2306-2315
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
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      Thermotolerant acetic acid bacteria belonging to the genus Gluconobacter were isolated from various kinds of fruits and flowers from Thailand and Japan. The screening strategy was built up to exclude Acetobacter strains by adding gluconic acid to a culture medium in the presence of 1% D-sorbitol or 1% D-mannitol. Eight strains of thermotolerant Gluconobacter were isolated and screened for D-fructose and L-sorbose production. They grew at wide range of temperatures from 10°C to 37°C and had average optimum growth temperature between 30-33°C. All strains were able to produce L-sorbose and D-fructose at higher temperatures such as 37°C. The 16S rRNA sequences analysis showed that the isolated strains were almost identical to G. frateurii with scores of 99.36-99.79%. Among these eight strains, especially strains CHM16 and CHM54 had high oxidase activity for D-mannitol and D-sorbitol, converting it to D-fructose and L-sorbose at 37°C, respectively. Sugar alcohols oxidation proceeded without a lag time, but Gluconobacter frateurii IFO 3264T was unable to do such fermentation at 37°C. Fermentation efficiency and fermentation rate of the strains CHM16 and CHM54 were quite high and they rapidly oxidized D-mannitol and D-sorbitol to D-fructose and L-sorbose at almost 100% within 24 h at 30°C. Even oxidative fermentation of D-fructose done at 37°C, the strain CHM16 still accumulated D-fructose at 80% within 24 h. The efficiency of L-sorbose fermentation by the strain CHM54 at 37°C was superior to that observed at 30°C. Thus, the eight strains were finally classified as thermotolerant members of G. frateurii.
  • Makoto TAKAO, Tetsuko NAKANIWA, Kentaro YOSHIKAWA, Takao TERASHITA, Ta ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2360-2367
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
    ジャーナル フリー
      A strain of thermophilic bacterium, Bacillus sp., with pectolytic activity has been isolated. It produced an extracellular endo-polygalacturonate trans-eliminase (PL, EC 4.2.2.1) when grown at 60°C on a medium containing polygalacturonate (PGA). The PL was purified by hydrophobic, cation exchange, and size exclusion column chromatographies. The molecular mass of the enzyme was 50 kDa by SDS-PAGE. The isoelectric point of the enzyme was pH 5.3. The enzyme had a half-life of 13 and 1 h at 65 and 70°C, respectively, and showed optimal activity around at 70°C and pH 8.0. It had protopectinase activity, besides PL activity, on lemon protopectin and cotton fibers. The first 20 amino acids sequence of the enzyme had significant similarity with that of PL from methophilic Bacillus subtilis, with 50% identity.
  • Toshihiro SASHIHARA, Hirokazu KIMURA, Toshimasa HIGUCHI, Asaho ADACHI, ...
    2000 年 64 巻 11 号 p. 2420-2428
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2005/02/02
    ジャーナル フリー
      Staphylococcus warneri ISK-1, which we had previously reported as Pediococcus sp. ISK-1, produces a novel bacteriocin, nukacin ISK-1. Edman degradation of the chemically reduced nukacin ISK-1 produced a sequence of 27 amino acids, 7 of which were unidentified. Using single-specific-primer-PCR product as a probe, a 3.6-kb HindIII fragment containing the nukacin ISK-1 structural gene (nukA) was cloned and sequenced. The deduced amino acid sequence of nukacin ISK-1 had 57 amino acids, including a 30-amino acid leader region. The propeptide sequence showed significant similarity to those of lacticin-481 type lantibiotics. In the region upstream of nukA, a part of a long open reading frame (ORF), designated as nukM, encoding a putative modification enzyme was oriented in the opposite direction. In the region downstream of nukA, ORF1 was found in which the sequence of the putative translational product was similar to various response regulatory proteins.
Microbiology & Fermentation Technology Notes
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