Insights into the pH-dependent, extracellular sucrose utilization and concomitant levan formation by Gluconobacter albidus TMW 2.1191

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Frank JakobRudi F Vogel

Abstract

Many bacteria and archaea produce the polydisperse fructose polymer levan from sucrose upon biofilm formation via extracellular levansucrases (EC 2.4.1.10). We have investigated levansucrase-release and -activities as well as molecular size of the levan formed by the acetic acid bacterium Gluconobacter albidus TMW 2.1191 at varying environmental pH conditions to obtain insight in the ecological role of its constitutively expressed levansucrase and the produced levan. A buffer system was established enabling the recovery of levansucrase-containing supernatants from preincubated cell suspensions at pH 4.3-pH 5.7. The enzyme solutions were used to produce levans at different pH values and sucrose concentrations. Finally, the amounts and size distributions of the produced levans as well as the corresponding levansucrase activities were determined and correlated with each other. The data revealed that the levansucrase was released into the environment independently of its substrate sucrose, and that more levansucrase was released at pH ≥ 5.0. The glucose release and formation of high molecular weight levans (> 3.5 kDa) from 0.1 M initial sucrose was comparable between pH ~ 4.3-5.7 using equal amounts of released levansucrase. Hence,...Continue Reading

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