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KMID : 0545119970070020107
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Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
1997 Volume.7 No. 2 p.107 ~ p.113
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Purification and Characterization of Antifungal Chitinase from Pseudomonas sp. YHS-A2
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Lee, Han Seung
Lee, Hyun Jung/Choi, Sung Won/Her, Song/Oh, Doo Hwan
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Abstract
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A strain producing a high amount of chitinase was isolated from soil, identified as Pseudomonas sp., and tentatively named Pseudomonas sp. YHS-A2. An extracellular chitinase of Pseudomonas sp. YHSA2 was purified according to the procedure of ammonium sulfate saturation, affinity adsorption, Sephadex G-100 gel filtration and Phenyl-sepharose CL-4B hydrophobic interaction column chromatography. The molecular weight of the purified enzyme was estimated to be 55 kDa on SDS-PAGE was confirmed by active staining. Optimal pH and temperature of the enzyme are pH 7.0 and 50℃, respectively, and the enzyme is stable between pH 5.0 and 8.0 and below 50℃. The main products of colloidal chitin by the chitinase were N-acetyl-D-glucosamine and N,N´-diacetylchitobiose both of which were detected by HPLC analysis. The enzyme is supposed to be a random-type endochitinase which can degrade any position of β-1,4-linkages of chitin and chitooligosaccharides. The chitinase inhibited the growth of some phytopathogenic fungi, Fusarium oxysporum, Botrytis cineria, and Mucor rouxii and these antifungal effects were thought to be due to the characteristics of endochitinase.
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