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Isolation and characterization of an endo-beta-galactosidase from Bacteroides fragilis.


ABSTRACT: Six strains of Bacteroides fragilis were examined and all found to produce endo-beta-galactosidase, an enzyme that hydrolyses internal beta-galactosidic linkages of oligosaccharides belonging to the poly-N-acetyl-lactosamine series, with the common structure GlcNAc beta 1 leads to 3Gal beta 1 leads to 4GlcNAc/Glc. The enzyme was produced without the addition of an inducer such as keratan sulphate. It was purified 7000-fold from the culture supernatant and obtained with a yield 4-10-fold greater than from sources described previously. The specificity of the enzyme towards bovine corneal keratan sulphate, milk oligosaccharides and the glycolipids lacto-N-neotetraosylceramide and lacto-N-tetraosylceramide closely resembled that of the endo-beta-galactosidase isolated from Escherichia freundii. A novel observation was that both enzymes hydrolysed the type 2 sequence, Gal beta 1 leads to 4GlcNAc beta 1 leads to 3Gal beta 1 leads to 4Glc, at about twice the rate of the type 1 isomer, Gal beta 1 leads to 3GlcNAc beta 1 leads to 3Gal beta 1 leads to 4Glc. Because of the ease of purification of the enzyme and high yield in the absence of contaminating glycosidases and proteinases, Bacteroides fragilis is a valuable source of endo-beta-galactosidase for the structural analysis of carbohydrate chains.

SUBMITTER: Scudder P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1152152 | biostudies-literature | 1983 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Isolation and characterization of an endo-beta-galactosidase from Bacteroides fragilis.

Scudder P P   Uemura K K   Dolby J J   Fukuda M N MN   Feizi T T  

The Biochemical journal 19830801 2


Six strains of Bacteroides fragilis were examined and all found to produce endo-beta-galactosidase, an enzyme that hydrolyses internal beta-galactosidic linkages of oligosaccharides belonging to the poly-N-acetyl-lactosamine series, with the common structure GlcNAc beta 1 leads to 3Gal beta 1 leads to 4GlcNAc/Glc. The enzyme was produced without the addition of an inducer such as keratan sulphate. It was purified 7000-fold from the culture supernatant and obtained with a yield 4-10-fold greater  ...[more]

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