Purification and characterization of a thermostable glutamate dehydrogenase from a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a sterilization drying oven

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Maximiliano J Amenábar, Jenny M Blamey

Abstract

Glutamate dehydrogenase from axenic bacterial cultures of a new microorganism, called GWE1, isolated from the interior of a sterilization drying oven, was purified by anion-exchange and molecular-exclusion liquid chromatography. The apparent molecular mass of the native enzyme was 250.5 kDa and was shown to be an hexamer with similar subunits of molecular mass 40.5 kDa. For glutamate oxidation, the enzyme showed an optimal pH and temperature of 8.0 and 70 degrees C, respectively. In contrast to other glutamate dehydrogenases isolated from bacteria, the enzyme isolated in this study can use both NAD(+) and NADP(+) as electron acceptors, displaying more affinity for NADP(+) than for NAD(+). No activity was detected with NADH or NADPH, 2-oxoglutarate and ammonia. The enzyme was exceptionally thermostable, maintaining more than 70% of activity after incubating at 100(o)C for more than five hours suggesting being one of the most thermoestable enzymes reported in the family of dehydrogenases.

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Mar 13, 2014·Chemistry and Physics of Lipids·Siddharth P ShahJenny M Blamey

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