Purification of a chitinase from the posterior salivary gland of common octopus Octopus vulgaris and its properties
Purification of a chitinase from the posterior salivary gland of common octopus Octopus vulgaris and its properties
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普通章鱼后唾液腺几丁质酶的纯化及其性质
DOI:
10.1166/jcc.2014.1049
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2014
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and Masahiro Matsumiya
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Tomohiro Ogino;Hirotaka Tabata;Mana Ikeda;Hiromi Kakizaki;and Masahiro Matsumiya
A chitinase was purified from the salivary gland of the common octopus Octopus vulgaris. It was treated using the following column chromatographies: ChitinEX, TOYOPEARL Butyl-650S, and TOYOPEARL CM-650S, and subsequently characterized. The purified chitinase (OvChi) showed a single protein band on SDS-PAGE, and the molecular mass was estimated to be 57 kDa. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the chitinase was analyzed up to 21 residues. It showed high homology to the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 18 chitinases. When p-nitrophenyl N-acetyl-chitotrioside (pNp-(GlcNAc)3) was used as a substrate, OvChi exhibited optimum activity at pH 4.5 with stability from pH 4.0–5.5. The optimum pH of OvChi toward chitin nanofiber was pH 5.0 and 91% of the maximum activity was shown at pH 6.0. The optimum temperature of OvChi was 40 °C and it was stable up to 40 °C when it was preincubated for 10 min at pH 4.5. The ability to degrade insoluble long substrates was observed in the following order: chitin nanofiber squid pen α-chitin > colloidal chitin > silkworm cuticleα-chitin > shrimp shell α-chitin > crab shell α-chitin. When N-acetylchitooligosaccharides ((GlcNAc) n , n = 2–6) were used as substrates, OvChi degraded (GlcNAc)4–6 and produced (GlcNAc)2–4, and an increase of β-anomers was observed at the reducing end of the hydrolysis products. It degraded (GlcNAc)5 to produce (GlcNAc)2 (56.5%) and (GlcNAc)3 (43.5%). The ability to degrade pNp-(GlcNAc)2–4 was observed and the following order was obtained: pNp-(GlcNAc)3 > pNp-(GlcNAc)2 > pNp-(GlcNAc)4. On the basis of these results, we concluded that OvChi could be a chitinolytic enzyme that exhibits a strong endotype and belongs to the GH family 18 chitinases.