产适冷木聚糖酶的海洋产青霉的筛选和诱变

从黄海深层海底泥样中分离到1株产低温木聚糖酶的青霉,经EMS诱变得到11株酶活性提高的菌株,对其中1株产低温木聚糖酶活力最高的菌株产酶性质进行了初步研究。所产木聚糖酶在pH4.6,45℃时酶活可达25.8u/ml,比出发菌株提高126%。诱变后菌株所产木聚糖酶在0℃仍有显著酶活性,达8.2u/ml。     

木聚糖酶的应用现状与研发热点

木聚糖酶是近年来应用日益广泛的工业用酶.本文综述了木聚糖酶在饲料、食品、造纸及能源等领域的应用现状与研发热点,展望了木聚糖酶的应用前景.     

产适冷木聚糖酶的海洋产青霉的筛选和诱变

从黄海深层海底泥样中分离到1株产低温木聚糖酶的青霉,经EMS诱变得到11株酶活性提高的菌株,对其中1株产低温木聚糖酶活力最高的菌株产酶性质进行了初步研究。所产木聚糖酶在pH4．6,45℃时酶活可达25．8u／ml,比出发菌株提高126％。诱变后菌株所产木聚糖酶在0℃仍有显著酶活性,达8．2u／ml。     

造纸用木聚糖酶的基因工程研究进展

木聚糖酶用于造纸行业可以显著改善纸浆的性能,减少纸张处理过程中有害化学试剂的使用,从而减轻环境污染,提高纸张品质,因此在造纸工业中具有广阔的应用前景。本文从造纸用碱性木聚糖酶基因的克隆、分子改造、高效表达及在造纸行业的应用研究等方面出发,对造纸用碱性木聚糖酶的研究现状进行综述,为开发造纸用木聚糖酶提供了思路。     

酸性木聚糖酶的研究进展

综述了酸性木聚糖酶的产生、纯化和性质、结构基础及应用。发酵底物和pH对酸性木聚糖酶的产生影响很大。酸性木聚糖酶在pH4．0以下是稳定的,在酿酒工业和饲料工业有潜在的广泛用途。     

碱性木聚糖酶研究进展*

木聚糖是一种在自然界中含量仅次于纤维素的丰富的可再生资源,木聚糖酶是一类可以将木聚糖水解成单糖和寡糖的酶,利用木聚糖酶将木聚糖分解后的产物被广泛应用于食品、造纸以及纺织等行业。木聚糖酶按其对酸碱环境的耐受能力分为碱性木聚糖酶、中性木聚糖酶和酸性木聚糖酶,其中碱性木聚糖酶适合应用于造纸工业中,尤其在造纸的制浆、促进漂白及废纸脱墨等多种工艺中,可以显著提高纸张质量,有效降低氯气排放量,从而减少对环境的污染。随着生物技术的进步,利用基因工程技术可以对碱性木聚糖酶进行分子改造,以提高其耐碱、耐热能力,扩大其在工业应用中的条件范围。介绍碱性木聚糖酶在分子改造方面的研究进展以及其在造纸漂白和制浆、废纸脱墨中的应用。     

木聚糖酶的研究进展及其在食品领域的应用

木聚糖酶在半纤维素转化成工业产品过程中发挥着重要作用,尤其是在食品和化工行业中。本文对木聚糖酶的分类及基本性质,酶的制备生产,酶分子改造方面的研究进展、趋势进行了总结。主要介绍了木聚糖酶的一般适用环境,天然菌株及基因资源的发掘情况,包括基于理论研究及应用需求进行酶蛋白改造的通用方法及进展。另外,对木聚糖酶在食品行业中的应用,如功能性寡糖的制备及其在烘焙食品、果汁和酿酒等方面的应用均进行了论述。关于木聚糖酶的研究将会在新资源发掘,关键酶催化性质尤其是在较复杂催化环境影响因素的确认,以及工业适用性方面进行更多的探讨和拓展。     

嗜热和嗜碱木聚糖酶研究进展

木聚糖酶是降解半纤维素主要成分木聚糖的关键酶,广泛应用在食品、饲料、制浆造纸、生物脱胶等行业。特别是在造纸工业中,木聚糖酶显示出巨大的应用潜力,已成为国内外研究的热点。纸浆漂白工艺中需要酶在高温碱性条件下发挥作用。目前,主要通过筛选野生型木聚糖酶资源和对现有中性中温木聚糖酶分子改造的方法获得嗜热碱木聚糖酶。文中就嗜热嗜碱木聚糖酶的筛选、嗜热嗜碱机制研究及分子改造进展进行了综述,并对其前景进行了展望。     

木聚糖酶分子结构与重要酶学性质关系的研究进展

木聚糖是一种多聚五碳糖 ,是植物细胞中主要的半纤维素成分。木聚糖酶是可将木聚糖降解成低聚木糖和木糖的水解酶 ,它在饲料、造纸、食品、能源工业和环境科学上有着广阔的应用前景。随着分子生物学、结构生物学的发展及蛋白质工程的应用 ,对木聚糖酶结构和功能的研究不断深入。这里重点阐述与酶的活性、热稳定性、作用pH、等电点、底物亲和性及催化效率等重要性质相关的分子结构研究进展 ,讨论了其进一步的研究发展方向。研究木聚糖酶结构与功能的关系 ,对进一步加深木聚糖酶作用机制的了解、指导木聚糖酶的分子改良有重要意义。     

微生物发酵产木聚糖酶研究进展

木聚糖是植物半纤维素的主要成分,是自然界中仅次于纤维素的可再生资源。木聚糖酶是一类重要的木糖苷键水解酶酶系,可将木聚糖逐次降解为低聚木糖及木糖,在饲料、造纸、食品和生物转化等行业应用广泛。目前利用微生物发酵生产木聚糖酶的研究很多,菌种涉及到细菌、真菌等,其发酵生产木聚糖酶的工艺、产量及特性也各有不同,对此进行了综述,并展望了木聚糖酶发酵生产的研究方向。     

低温纤维素酶的研究进展

低温纤维素酶在低温下仍具有较高酶活力及较高催化效率,在应用中能够缩短处理工艺时间,节省加热或冷却费用,且易失活,有着中高温纤维素酶无法比拟的优势。现针对微生物低温纤维素酶的研究现状,包括菌种来源、分离鉴定、酶学性质、适冷结构及机理研究和基因工程等方面进行综述。     

Activity,stability and flexibility in glycosidases adapted to extreme thermal environments

To elucidate the strategy of low temperature adaptation for a cold-adapted family 8 xylanase, the thermal and chemical stabilities, thermal inactivation, thermodependence of activity and conformational flexibility, as well as the thermodynamic basis of these processes, were compared with those of a thermophilic homolog. Differential scanning calorimetry, fluorescence monitoring of guanidine hydrochloride unfolding and fluorescence quenching were used, among other techniques, to show that the cold-adapted enzyme is characterized by a high activity at low temperatures, a poor stability and a high flexibility. In contrast, the thermophilic enzyme is shown to have a reduced low temperature activity, high stability and a reduced flexibility. These findings agree with the hypothesis that cold-adapted enzymes overcome the quandary imposed by low temperature environments via a global or local increase in the flexibility of their molecular edifice, with this in turn leading to a reduced stability. Analysis of the guanidine hydrochloride unfolding, as well as the thermodynamic parameters of irreversible thermal unfolding and thermal inactivation shows that the driving force for this denaturation and inactivation is a large entropy change while a low enthalpy change is implicated in the low temperature activity. A reduced number of salt-bridges are believed to be responsible for both these effects. Guanidine hydrochloride unfolding studies also indicate that both family 8 enzymes unfold via an intermediate prone to aggregation.     

Xylanases, xylanase families and extremophilic xylanases

Xylanases are hydrolytic enzymes which randomly cleave the beta 1,4 backbone of the complex plant cell wall polysaccharide xylan. Diverse forms of these enzymes exist, displaying varying folds, mechanisms of action, substrate specificities, hydrolytic activities (yields, rates and products) and physicochemical characteristics. Research has mainly focused on only two of the xylanase containing glycoside hydrolase families, namely families 10 and 11, yet enzymes with xylanase activity belonging to families 5, 7, 8 and 43 have also been identified and studied, albeit to a lesser extent. Driven by industrial demands for enzymes that can operate under process conditions, a number of extremophilic xylanases have been isolated, in particular those from thermophiles, alkaliphiles and acidiphiles, while little attention has been paid to cold-adapted xylanases. Here, the diverse physicochemical and functional characteristics, as well as the folds and mechanisms of action of all six xylanase containing families will be discussed. The adaptation strategies of the extremophilic xylanases isolated to date and the potential industrial applications of these enzymes will also be presented.     

Xylanase from the psychrophilic yeast Cryptococcus adeliae

A xylanase belonging to family 10 is produced by Cryptococcus adeliae, an Antarctic yeast that exhibits optimal growth at low temperature. The mature glycosylated xylanase secreted by C. adeliae is composed of 338 amino acid residues and 26 ± 3 osidic residues, and shares 84% identity with its mesophilic counterpart from C. albidus. The xylanase from C. adeliae is less thermostable than its mesophilic homologue when the residual activities are compared, and this difference was confirmed by differential scanning calorimetry experiments. In the range 0°–20°C, the cold-adapted xylanase displays a lower activation energy and a higher catalytic efficiency. All these observations suggest a less compact, more flexible molecular structure. Analysis of computerized molecular models built up for both psychrophilic and mesophilic xylanases indicates that the adaptation to cold consists of discrete changes in the tridimensional structure: of 53 substitutions, 22 are presumably involved in the adaptation process. These changes lead mainly to a less compact hydrophobic packing, to the loss of one salt bridge, and to a destabilization of the macrodipoles of the helices. Received: April 20, 1999 / Accepted: January 13, 2000     

Cold-adapted enzymes produced by fungi from terrestrial and marine Antarctic environments

Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, and driest continent on Earth. In this sense, microorganisms that inhabit Antarctica environments have to be adapted to harsh conditions. Fungal strains affiliated with Ascomycota and Basidiomycota phyla have been recovered from terrestrial and marine Antarctic samples. They have been used for the bioprospecting of molecules, such as enzymes. Many reports have shown that these microorganisms produce cold-adapted enzymes at low or mild temperatures, including hydrolases (e.g. α-amylase, cellulase, chitinase, glucosidase, invertase, lipase, pectinase, phytase, protease, subtilase, tannase, and xylanase) and oxidoreductases (laccase and superoxide dismutase). Most of these enzymes are extracellular and their production in the laboratory has been carried out mainly under submerged culture conditions. Several studies showed that the cold-adapted enzymes exhibit a wide range in optimal pH (1.0–9.0) and temperature (10.0–70.0?°C). A myriad of methods have been applied for cold-adapted enzyme purification, resulting in purification factors and yields ranging from 1.70 to 1568.00-fold and 0.60 to 86.20%, respectively. Additionally, some fungal cold-adapted enzymes have been cloned and expressed in host organisms. Considering the enzyme-producing ability of microorganisms and the properties of cold-adapted enzymes, fungi recovered from Antarctic environments could be a prolific genetic resource for biotechnological processes (industrial and environmental) carried out at low or mild temperatures.     

低温酶及其冷适应性机制研究进展

生活在极地、深海等常年低温环境中的低温微生物和部分变温生物,能够通过产生低温酶来适应在低温环境中的生长、繁殖和代谢。这些酶在低温或常温条件下具有很高的催化活性,对热却很敏感,在高温时能够快速失活,因此在实际的生产和生活中具有广泛的应用前景。基于这些特性,低温酶的冷适应性机制研究成为了当前的一个热点。较系统地综述了低温酶的来源、特点、生产状况以及具有代表性的几种低温酶的冷适应性机制。     

A novel cold-tolerant Clostridium strain PXYL1 isolated from a psychrophilic cattle manure digester that secretes thermolabile xylanase and cellulase

A Clostridium strain PXYL1 was isolated from a cold-adapted cattle manure biogas digester at 15 degrees C. It could grow at temperatures as low as 5 degrees C up to 50 degrees C with highest specific growth rate at 20 degrees C and is a psychrotroph. It produced extracellular hydrolytic enzymes namely xylanase, endoglucanase, beta-xylosidase, beta-glucosidase and filter paper cellulase, all of which had maximal activity at 20 degrees C. The induction of xylanase was highest on birch wood xylan (37 IU(mg protein)(-1)) compared with xylose (1.11 IU(mg protein)(-1)), cellobiose (1.43 IU(mg protein)(-1)) and glucose (no activity). The xylanase was thermolabile with a half-life of 30 min at 40 degrees C and 8 min at 50 degrees C but stable for over 2 h at 20 degrees C. The crude enzyme released reducing sugars (1.25 g l(-1)) from finger millet flour at 20 degrees C, while commercial food-grade xylanases showed no hydrolysis at this temperature. This is the first report of a Clostridium strain growing at 20 degrees C and producing an array of xylanolytic and cellulolytic enzymes, possessing low temperature optima of 20 degrees C, which may facilitate degradation of plant fibre under low-temperature conditions.     

纳米颗粒对耐冷脱氮菌及其脱氮过程的毒害调控研究进展北大核心

生物脱氮具有经济高效、绿色环保的特点,在废水处理中具有广阔前景;目前在废水处理工艺中脱氮效果较好的微生物大部分为嗜温菌,这类菌在低温条件下的脱氮效率会受到强烈抑制,而耐冷脱氮菌可有效抵抗低温环境并进行高效脱氮,逐渐引起了研究者们的重视。其次,纳米颗粒(nanoparticles,NPs)在生物学、农学、医药等领域的应用日渐广泛,但在生产、储存和使用含NPs产品的过程中,不可避免地会向水和土壤环境释放NPs,在水环境中,NPs的大量积累会阻碍微生物的脱氮过程,也对废水处理提出了新的挑战,成为公众日益关注的环境问题和研究热点。当前,有部分研究已关注于耐冷菌的脱氮过程、NPs对耐冷菌脱氮过程的毒害作用及减毒措施。基于此,本篇文章将阐述耐冷菌的耐冷机理与脱氮过程,阐明NPs对耐冷菌脱氮过程的毒害作用与减毒调控措施,为低温环境下采用微生物处理含有NPs的氮污染废水提供理论依据。     

Cryptococcus adeliensis sp. nov., a xylanase producing basidiomycetous yeast from Antarctica

Cryptococcus adeliensis sp. nov. (CBS 8351) is described based on phenotypic characteristics and molecular sequence analysis of the D1/D2 large subunit and internal transcribed spacer regions of the ribosomal DNA. Molecular comparisons include species closely related to Cryptococcus albidus and several species isolated from the Antarctic. C. adeliensis, which has a cold-adapted xylanase, was isolated from Terre Adelie, Antarctica. ATCC 34633, which has a mesophilic xylanase, was identified as Cryptococcus albidosimilis.     

Development of a Cold-Adapted Pseudoalteromonas Expression System for the Pseudoalteromonas Proteins Intractable for the Escherichia coli System

Although the Escherichia coli expression system is the most commonly used expression system, some proteins are still difficult to be expressed by this system, such as proteins with high thermolability and enzymes that cannot mature by autoprocessing. Therefore, it is necessary to develop alternative expression systems. In this study, a cold-adapted Pseudoalteromonas expression system was developed. A shuttle vector was constructed, and a conjugational transfer system between E. coli and psychrophilic strain Pseudoalteromonas sp. SM20429 was established. Based on the shuttle vector, three reporter vectors were constructed to compare the strength of the cloned promoters at low temperature. The promoter of xylanase gene from Pseudoalteromonas sp. BSi20429 was chosen due to its high activity at 10–15°C. An expression vector pEV containing the chosen promoter, multiple cloning sites and a His tag was constructed for protein expression and purification. With pEV as expression vector and SM20429 as the host, a cold-adapted protease, pseudoalterin, which cannot be maturely expressed in E. coli, was successfully expressed as an active extracellular enzyme when induced by 2% oat spelt xylan at 15°C for 48 h. Recombinant pseudoalterin purified from the culture by Ni affinity chromatography had identical N-terminal sequence, similar molecular mass and substrate specificity as the native pseudoalterin. In addition, another two cold-adapted enzymes were also successfully expressed by this system. Our results indicate that this cold-adapted Pseudoalteromonas expression system will provide an alternative choice for protein expression, especially for the Pseudoalteromonas proteins intractable for the E. coli system.