Purification and Properties of an Extracellular Exoinulinase from Penicillium sp. Strain TN-88 and Sequence Analysis of the Encoding Gene

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An exoinulinase, P-I, was purified from the culture filtrate of Penicillium sp. strain TN-88 grown on inulin. The enzyme was homogeneous as judged by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with an apparent Mr of 81 kDa. The purified enzyme had extremely high specific activity, 743 U/mg, toward inulin. Inulinase activity was optimal at pH 4.0 and 55°C. A genomic DNA and cDNAs encoding this protein were cloned and sequenced. The exoinulinase gene (inuD) was present as a single copy in the genome. An open reading frame of 2,106 bp was interrupted by a single intron of 56 bp, and encoded a 25-amino acid signal peptide and a 677-amino acid mature protein. The mature protein contained two Cys residues and eight potential N-linked glycosylation sites. The 5′-noncoding region had a putative CAAT box at position −239. Four distinct transcription start points were observed at positions −98 (A), −91 (A), −80 (A), and −76 (A) from the start codon. The exoinulinase gene inuD was located 860-bp upstream of the previously reported endoinulinase gene inuC in the opposite direction of transcription. © 2002 by Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry.

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Moriyama, S., Akimoto, H., Suetsugu, N., Kawasaki, S., Nakamura, T., & Ohta, K. (2002). Purification and Properties of an Extracellular Exoinulinase from Penicillium sp. Strain TN-88 and Sequence Analysis of the Encoding Gene. Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 66(9), 1887–1896. https://doi.org/10.1271/bbb.66.1887

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